| Godstone | |
  Godstone shown within Surrey |
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| Population | 5,847[1] |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | Tandridge |
| Shire county | Surrey |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GODSTONE |
| Postcode district | RH9 |
| Dialling code | 01883 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | East Surrey |
| List of places: UK • England • Surrey | |
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History
The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Tandridge hundred. For their language see Anglo-Saxon language. Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the invading Tribes in the south Tandridge was a hundred in what is now Surrey, England. It includes the borough of Tandridge.
Godstone initially had a different name. The village had been known as Walkingstead, meaning 'Wolcen's place', from the Old English personal name Wolcen (related to modern English "welkin" meaning cloud") and stede "place, homestead", related to modern English stead. A personal name is the Proper name identifying an individual Person. A cloud is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals floating in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another Planetary body English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A record of the name from 932 as Wuulicinsted proves this. Another record, undated, shows the name as Wolinstede, suggesting the same etymology. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was Wachelstede. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey [2]
The name of the village was recorded in 1248 as Godeston, suggesting an etymology of the Old English personal name Goda and tun "farm, village", here in the sense "village" rather than "estate" considering the village size. Goda of England (also spelled Godgifu) (1004&ndash1055 was a Princess of England. Thus the suggested etymology is "Goda's farm". Goda was the daughter of Edward the Confessor. Goda of England (also spelled Godgifu) (1004&ndash1055 was a Princess of England. King Edward the Confessor (c 1003 &ndash 5 January 1066 son of Ethelred the Unready, was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon King of England and the last She died in 1055 but the Domesday book of 1086 records the parish as being held by her husband, Count Eustace II of Boulogne. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey Eustace II, (c 1015-1020 &ndash 1087 was Count of Boulogne from 1049-1093 fought on the Norman side at the Battle of Hastings, and afterwards received a
However, earlier records have the name listed as Cudeston (1153) and Codstune (1173) suggesting "farmstead of a man called Cōd" (pronounced as "code", not cod"), as with the Cotswolds, high-forest land of a man called Cōd. In Communications a code is a rule for converting a piece of Information (for example a letter, Word, Phrase, or Cod is the common name for the Genus Gadus of Fish, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety See also Cotswold The Cotswolds is a range of Hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England" However, if this etymology is proven, then it would almost certainly not be the same individual who gave his name to the Cotswolds. See also Cotswold The Cotswolds is a range of Hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England"
Godstone Geography
The heart of Godstone consists of two centres which are now conservation areas, Church Town and Godstone Green. [3]
Church Town, with its old timber framed buildings, is quiet and secluded. The Old Packhouse, dating from the 15th century, is the oldest timber framed building in the town. In the 18th Century, brick became the fashionable material for house building, and Church End and Church House, opposite the church, are two fine examples.
St Nicholas Church dominates Church Town. The North aisle was built in about 1845. Sir George Gilbert Scott's restoration of the church in 1872-3 involved widening of the chancel arch, inserting a new north side to the chancel, new windows to the nave and east end, and adding the south aisle.
At the same time, Sir George Gilbert Scott designed St Mary's almshouses next to St Nicholas Church for Mrs Mabel Hunt of Wonham House, in memory of her only daughter who had died at the age of sixteen. Built in a Victorian Tudor/gothic style, they include eight self contained houses, a wardens house and a beautiful little chapel, dedicated to St Mary. The flèch-capped chapel and the gables compose a very pretty hamlet.
Godstone Green became a busy centre of roads and vehicles during the growth of wheeled traffic in the 16th century, an era which spawned the establishment of Godstone's numerous inns. A number of houses built entirely of brick appeared in the 18th Century, notably the row in the High Street.
During the 19th Century, The Pond at Godstone Green was used as a horse-pond with a sloping bank down which the wagoners drove their horses.
In the very core of the village is a triangular island, which in Victorian times, was densely packed with a remarkable number of cottages intersected by alleys. It is claimed to have been the worst slum in Surrey, which is no longer the case, with each dwelling having been paid much care and attention.
The two parts of Godstone are linked by Bullbeggars Lane, a narrow road leading from the south of the village to the church, and the footpath running from the White Hart pub and its barn, along Bay Pond to Church Lane. The original village around St Nicholas Church was decimated during the great plague of 1342 with the victims being buried in two 'plague pits' in Bullbeggars Lane. The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest Pandemics in human history widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia Even in death the sexes were kept separate. Men and women were interred in separate pits. The road running past the church was at one time the main coastal road with the present village not being built until Tudor times. The Pack House featured in the Gracie Fields film 'Sing as you dance along', with Gracie dancing along the lane past the cottage which used to be an Inn. Dame Gracie Fields, DBE ( January 9 1898 &ndash September 27 1979) born Grace Stansfield, was an English /
The Enterdent
This is a small plot of land, tucked away in between Tilburstow Hill Road and Eastbourne Road, to the south of Godstone. [4]
The name Enterdent alludes to a cluster of cottages on the land set in a wooded valley. The origin of the name the Enterdent has never been satisfactorily explained. It has previously been known as Lower and Upper Henterden, and in the 19th century, Polly Pains Bottom. It is perhaps the dene or valley between two hills. Dene is a word from Northumbrian English used in Northumberland and Durham to refer to a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn runs
The first two dwellings appeared in 1842, and improvements began on the cottages in 1857, now number 6 and 7 The Enterdent. These buildings were enlarged with an extension at the rear and five further cottages were added, making row of seven. A second terrace of cottages, this time eight in number, appeared further up the valley.
Today the fifteen original cottages have been converted to eight homes. The additional five cottages from the original terrace have since been converted into two larger properties, number 1 comprising of three cottages, and number 5 comprising of the remaining two. Numbers 6 and 7 still remain as individual cottages. At the entrance to the Enterdent, from Eastbourne Road, is a Georgian style house, which was a tea rooms and a hotel from the 1920s to the 1940s. Georgian architecture is the name given in most English -speaking countries to the set of Architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840 It has since been converted into two cottages, River Cottage and White Cottage.
Despite all the changes, the Enterdent has essentially remained relatively unaltered. The cottage gardens and vegetable allotments stand to this day, so too does the sandpit, the brook, the woods and the bluebells. Allotment gardens are characterised by a concentration in one place of a few or up to several hundreds of land parcels that are assigned to individual families A sandpit or sandbox is a low wide container or shallow depression filled with Sand in which Children can play A stream is a body of Water with a current, confined within a bed and stream-banks Hyacinthoides is a Genus of the Hyacinthaceae (formerly Liliaceae) family
Today
Godstone School is situated very near by the Bay Pond. It caters for children between the ages of 5 and 11. The Orpheus Trust Centre is an inclusive performing arts centre founded in 1998 by British entertainer and musician Richard Stilgoe in his former family home in the village. The Orpheus Trust Centre is an inclusive performing arts centre founded in 1998 by British entertainer and musician Richard Stilgoe in his former family home in A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the Performing arts, including Dance Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe OBE (b 28 March 1943) is a British Songwriter, Lyricist and Musician. Godstone Vineyards is a local wine producer selling wine from the premises on Quarry Road.
Godstone is situated at the junction of the A22 and A25 trunk roads. Junction 6 of the M25 motorway is just to the north of the village. Godstone railway station is situated in South Godstone (which used to be known as Lagham), approximately 2 miles to the south of the village. Godstone railway station is on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line and serves Godstone in Surrey, England. South Godstone is a small village 3 miles south of Godstone in the County of Surrey in South East England.
References
- ^ Census data
- ^ Norman Marshal
- ^ Jaques, J (1992) : "Bygone Godstone", Phillimore
- ^ Lotter, A (1988) "The Enterdent", Surrey Mirror, Thursday December 15, 1988, p. 12
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