Surprising as it may seem to us in 2024, the existential crisis that preoccupied Thursley villagers in the early 1980's was the threat of...

Map by Rocque, 1768 Map by Mudge, 1816

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in March 2022 Part of the procession through the village...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in June 2023 I write this less than 48 hours after the...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in October 2022 We will all truly be ensconced in Autumn...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in September 2021 Last month’s explanation about the...

The Unknown Sailor was an anonymous seafarer murdered in the Devil’s Punchbowl in September 1786, and buried in Thursley’s churchyard.

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in June 2022 Well, isn’t life strange? I’ve been writing...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in January and February 2022 Many of you, like me, may...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in January 2023 Happy New Year from the Thursley History...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in September 2020 The site of the V2 rocket explosion...

This article by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine, May 2023 Many of us will be aware of the construction traffic...

This article by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine, December 2023 You will forgive me if I make this month’s article...

THURSLEY CHURCH: A BRIEF GUIDE From a leaflet originally compiled by the Revd A W Mills, Vicar 1959 - 1968 and revised in 1980 The...

The Red Lion Inn, which closed as a pub in 1958, was infamous for its connection with the murder of the Unknown Sailor which is linked...

Thursley Institute , now Prospect Cottage, was originally built as a working men’s club. The Parish register states – ‘the site for the...

Photographs only Olde Hall in 1990 Miss Gooch, outside Olde Hall, where three families lived in 1897 when it was known as Back Lane (the...

Photos only. For further information: https://www.facebook.com/ThursleyCricketClub/ A Thursley Cricket Match, possibly Thursley Cricket...

In 1892, a return of Licensed Houses to Guildford Petty Sessions, show the pub as a free house. The Licensee was Arthur Steed, and the...

From British listed buildings: Hall House. Early C16 core, refaced in C17. Timber framed, clad in sandstone rubble with brick patching...