Wormley, Surrey
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Wormley is a village in the civil parish of Witley and Milford, in the Waverley district, in Surrey, England, around Witley station, off the A283 Petworth Road about Template:Cvt SSW of Godalming.
History
Expansion from archetypal hamlet
Wormley developed primarily as a result of the construction in the 19th century of Witley station, on the Portsmouth Direct line. King Edward's School, Witley once had its own station platform.
Former businesses
Cooper & Sons Ltd owned the Combelane walking stick factory; this was replaced by houses with small gardens and a light industrial estate. The Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory was here from 1952 to 1995, housed in the former Admiralty Signals Establishment building on Brook Road.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The only public house, the Wood Pigeon, closed in 2007.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Architecture and gardens
King Edward's School is a Grade II listed building,<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> the school war memorial is also Grade II listed.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> Gertrude Jekyll designed the gardens at Tigbourne Court and Wood End, houses both designed by Edward Lutyens.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
Notable former residents
- Louis de Bernières (b. 1954) based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding, on the local area.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In the afterword of the book, he muses whether Wormley is no longer a rural idyll.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- George Eliot (1819–1880) was a resident.
- Gertrude Mary Tuckwell (1861–1951) lived the last twenty years of her life in Little Woodlands, Combe Lane.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
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