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Great Bookham
Great Bookham — village located in Mole Valley, Surrey, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Nearest railway station
- Bookham · 1.4 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Great Bookham is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Recent population estimates put it at around 11,375 people. Address: KT23. Wikidata describes it as: "village located in Mole Valley, Surrey, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 51.2780°, -0.3730°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Surrey Hills
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Great Bookham is a village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of Bocham ("the village by the beeches"). The Bookhams are surrounded by common land, and Bookham railway station in Church Road, Great Bookham, serves both settlements. The villages are astride the A246, which is the direct route between the two towns. Once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads which give the impression of one large village. On the southern edge of the village is Polesden Lacey, a country house surrounded by more than 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of grounds. It is owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
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Background
History
According to a charter c.675, the original of which is lost but which exists in a later form, there were granted to the Abbey twenty dwellings at Bocham cum Effingham. This was confirmed by four Saxon kings; King Offa of Mercia and of the nations roundabout in 787; King Æthelstan who was "King and ruler of the whole island of Britain" in 933 confirmed the privileges to the monastery; King Edgar, "Emperor of all Britain" in 967 confirmed "twelve mansiones" in Bocham, and King Edward the Confessor, King of the English, in 1062 confirmed twenty mansae at Bocham cum Effingham, Driteham and Pechingeorde. Great Bookham lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative district of Effingham half hundred.…
Visiting
The village has a short high street at its centre. There are three public houses in Great Bookham: The Old Crown, The Anchor, The Royal Oak and one in Little Bookham, Ye Olde Windsor Castle. The Old Barn Hall is the main community centre, regularly used for staging amateur dramatics productions and hosting parties and receptions. There are two primary schools in the village: Eastwick Junior School in Eastwick Drive and Great Bookham School (formerly The Dawnay School) in Griffin Way. There are three infant schools in Great Bookham: Polesden Lacey Infant School in Oakfield Close, Eastwick Infant School in Eastwick Drive, and Great Bookham Infant School in Griffin Way.
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- Coordinates
- 51.2780, -0.3730
- County
- Surrey
- District
- Mole Valley
- Parish
- Mole Valley, unparished area
- Postcode
- KT23
- Parliamentary constituency
- Dorking and Horley
- Population
- 11,375
- Nearest railway station
- Bookham — 1.4 km
- Official site
- www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q948813 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Great Bookham (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: St Nicolas' Church, Church Road, Great Bookham (NHLE Code 1028641).JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Great Bookham?
- Great Bookham is in Surrey, London, United Kingdom (postcode KT23), in the parish of Mole Valley, unparished area.
- Is Great Bookham a protected site?
- Yes — Great Bookham is part of the Surrey Hills National Landscape (AONB).
- Is Great Bookham free to visit?
- Yes, Great Bookham is free to enter.
- How do I get to Great Bookham?
- The nearest railway station is Bookham, about 1.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode KT23.