D-Day training sites were created in Britain in order to practice for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Northern France by allied forces in 1944. In 1943, in an area of Hankley Common known as the Lion’s Mouth, Canadian troops constructed a replica of a section of the Atlantic Wall.

A Grade II listed building, 28th October 1986 Upper Ridgeway is a medieval timber-framed hall house. The earliest mention of the place is...

From Wikipedia: Witley Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Witley, was a temporary army camp set up on Witley Common, Surrey,...

Formerly the Old Manor House, it is a Grade II listed building (9 March 1960) The house dates back to the 16 th Century in the back part...

Photographs only but including views from and of Gibbet Hill, Gibbet Cross, the Sailor's Stone, Broom Squire's Cottage and Keeper's...

Cosford House estate is an historic property dating back many centuries.

Grade II listed building (9 March 1960) The entry below was published by SurreyLive under the heading "Secrets of a farmhouse at Thursley: https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/secrets-farmhouse-thursley-4845854 UPPER  Highfield Farm in Thursley has a fascinating history. The farmhouse was, at one time, owned by a school. In 1913 a folk song collector visited one of its tenants and noted down three traditional songs. House detective Philip Gorton has been researching it

Boxalls and Vine Cottage were originally a single three bay building with a central open hall.  The heavily sooted roof structure...

All that is known is that a William Enticknap was born there in 1880 and his father had a donkey and cart.

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...

The village sign gives a clue as to the name Thursley, which was called Thoresle in 1292. This names etymologically is difficult to interpret but it was probably derived from the Saxon God, Thunor or Thunder and may be related to the heathen temple at Peper Harrow. Read on further for another possible explanation!

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 have been intrigued over the last year or so with the current refurbishment of Witley Park. The number of contractors vehicles entering and leaving daily, the shielded scaffolding over the lodge houses, and not least the whisperings of grandiose extravagance are all rather eerily reminiscent of past times when the Victorian mansion was original

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

The oldest portion of the Grade 2 listed Emley Farm is the rear section. It was a four-bay timber-framed smoke bay house with many characteristics of immediately post medieval period, circa 1550-1590.