From John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches: "Pre-Conquest windows were discovered during aggressive restoration by Ferry in...

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 institute was given by Captain H Rushbrooke, the architect was Sir Edwin Lutyens, the builder was Mr W K Fosberry.

Photographs only of this Grade II listed building (9 March 1960) Olde Hall in 1990 Miss Gooch, outside Olde Hall, where three families...

Photos only. For further information: https://www.facebook.com/ThursleyCricketClub/ A Thursley Cricket Match in 1992, Thursley...

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 owner was Miss Rushbrooke. The usage was that of the genral public. Listed under Thursley Public Houses were Railway Hotel, Crown and Cushion and other Haslemere Pubs. This shows they were in Thursley Parish. In the early part of World War 1, the publican of of The Three Horse Shoes, Arthur Ford and his wife, were dismissed by the brewery

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

Linked as they so often appear together in photographs: Brook Cottage and Horn Cottage 1900. As you can see Red Lodge had not yet been...

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect who designed many war memorials, English country houses and public buildings in the...

Cobbett was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, author, politician and farmer born. in Farnham Surrey. This article is from the...

William Karn Fosberry, blacksmith of Thursley

Only photographs The Old Post Office at The Clump. Mr Tozer was the first postmaster, he had the first telephone in the village. The Acacia trees were planted in memory of William Cobbett, Postcard date stamped 1912. Thursley Clump 1897, looking towards The Corner, we believe the sheep belonged to Betty Weeden's great grandfather who at the time farmed Upper Ridgeway Farm Street House, The Corner and The Clump with Acacia trees. The Clump, 1990s May 2009

The Vicarage suffered a terrible fire in 1930 as the photographs below show. The Reverend A J Wheeler lived there.

A brief history derived from property deeds and documents by Arthur Lindley, 2012 The opening paragraphs of Arthur Lindley's extensive history of Rock Cottage which can be found in the pdf below H.A.L. Fisher and Mary outside Rock Cottage George Warner outside Rock Cottage Surnames of previous owners include: Fisher; Bennett

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in November 2021 On Sunday the 14th of this month,...

An exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War 1, July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918.

With a note from Norman Ratcliffe of Happy Families Ancestral Research. The pdf can be downloaded below.

Transcribed by Norman Ratcliffe of Happy Families Ancestral Research, GU12 6EA. It can been downloaded below.

This census has been analysed (see below) and compared to the 2001 Thursley census. While the population has not grown significantly,...