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

‘Hammer’ ponds are not natural lakes but dammed streams and rivers, crucial to the Tudor and Stuart iron industry that was established within the High Weald of Kent and Sussex, and adjacent parts of Surrey and Hampshire.

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This document was transcribed by Sean Edwards from photocopied pages in the Thursley History Society archives, 16 February 2012. ...

Thursley Horticultural Society 2009, Sean Edwards talk. Everybody here will be familiar with Thursley Common.We shall look at what most...