| Shackleford | |
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| Village andcivil parish | |
 Shackleford Post Office and Village Centre Sign | |
 St Mary's, Shackleford | |
  Shackleford Location withinSurrey | |
| Area | 8.03 km2 (3.10 sq mi) |
| Population | 770 (Civil Parish 2011)[1] |
| • Density | 96/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU941451 |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Godalming |
| Postcode district | GU8 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
| 51°11′51″N0°39′15″W / 51.1975°N 0.6541°W /51.1975; -0.6541 | |
Shackleford is a village andcivil parish in theBorough of Guildford,Surrey, England centred to the west of theA3 betweenGuildford andPetersfield 32 miles (51 km) southwest ofLondon and 5.2 miles (8.4 km) southwest ofGuildford. Shackleford includes the localities ofEashing,Hurtmore,Norney andGatwick.
The village does not appear in theDomesday Book of 1086; however, Hurtmoremanor in the east of the parish and Rodsall manor, just to the west of the parish, a far-south part of Puttenham, do appear.[2] The name first appears in 1220, asSakelesford, and appears in a variety of mostly quite minor variants thereafter. The second element,-ford, is self-explanatory, but the etymology of the "Shackle-" element is uncertain. One possibility is that it is from Old Englishsceacol 'a shackle', perhaps with reference to a chain used to aid in crossing the river.[3] Alternatively, there may have been an unattested Old English adjective*sceacol 'shaky, loose' from the stem of the Old English verbsceacan 'to shake', perhaps with reference to the bed of the river.[4] It has also been suggested that the element might derive from an unattested Old English noun akin to Old High Germanscahho 'strip or tongue of land' or to Old Norseskekill as inútskekill 'the outskirts of a field', but there is nothing in the local topography pointing to such meanings.[5] Whatever the etymology, in 1349 a John de Shackleford was one of three persons enfeoffed of a nearby manor;[6] his surname, which at that relatively late date was most likely hereditary, doubtless referred to the Surrey village.
Hall Place (see landmarks) was a large house of Richard Wyatt[n 1], who built the Mead Row Almshouses in 1619, before Hall Place was rebuilt in the 19th century. For a time the estate office was used as an inn, known as the Cyder House.[7] Hall Place was acquired by Mr. William Edgar Horne, who turned it into a modern mansion. With gardens designed byGertrude Jekyll, in the 1940s it was sold and converted into what became Aldro School. Its panelling and overmantel of the dining-room came from theCock Tavern in Fleet Street, London; its gallery railings in the hall came from the Old Banqueting Hall atWhitehall Palace.[7][8] Meanwhile, Hurtmore Manor was held by Sir Edward More of Odiham who before his death in 1623 left this to his daughter and her husband Sir William Staunton,recusant convict, and stating he should have the house free of rent for life – the manor was sold by later relatives to executors of Simon Bennett ofCalverton, one of the daughters of whom marriedJames Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury (when still styled by thecourtesy title Viscount Cranborne) and his sonJames Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury inherited the share of the two Bennett daughters; his grandsonJames Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury sold the estate with much later belonging to the Richardson, Keen and Frankland families.[7]
Many of the houses that still stand today were built in the 18th century, although there was a further expansion of the village when the railway line was constructed betweenLondon andPortsmouth during the mid 19th century, passing through nearbyGodalming andFarncombe. At the centre of the village are sixteenlisted buildings and one listed set of walls – Aldro School garden walls.[9] St Mary's Church was built in 1865, designed by SirGeorge Gilbert Scott. It stands in the outskirts of the Shackleford village centre at a nearby crossroads in the woodland locality ofNorney.[10]
Most of the parish consists of relative uplands to the Wey Valley; elevations vary between 102 mAOD in the north and west to 45mAOD at a weir marking the boundary withGodalming town council.[11]
Shackleford is centred 32 miles (51 km) southwest of London and 5.2 miles (8.4 km) southwest of Guildford.[11]
Shackleford's soil is of two types. An arc of wetheath soil is to the south-east, south, south-west, west and north-west of the village centre, covering all of Norney and Gatwick. This is the same type of heath as inEsher,Oxshott,Weybridge,Wisley, all aroundWoking,Brookwood,Deepcut,Pirbright,Frimley,Lightwater,Camberley,Chobham Common,Virginia Water andOttershaw is "naturally wet, very acid sandy and loamy soil" which is just 1.9% of English soil and 0.2% of Welsh soil, which gives rise to pines and coniferous landscapes, such as pioneered atWentworth and Foxhills estate (now spa, hotel, restaurant and golf club) by pro-American Independence statesmanCharles James Fox.[12] Consequently, Malden summarised Shackleford's visual landscape in 1911 "The hamlet of Shackleford contains some old cottages and farm buildings and many new houses in very beautiful scenery."[7] InA Topographical Dictionary of England, published bySamuel Lewis in 1848, it is stated that "Eashing House is situated on a commanding brow overlooking the beautiful valley of Eashing". The remainder of the soil is in common with Godalming, "free draining slightly acid loamy" and is the dominant type in the centre of Shackleford, as well as throughout Eashing and Hurtmore.[12][13]
Eashing is a hamlet 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-east of Shackleford on theRiver Wey, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) west ofGodalming, and was part of theHundred of Godalming; in the Anglo-Saxon era it was a significant place and is one of theburhs listed in theBurghal Hidage ofAlfred the Great.
Eashing is now administered byGuildford Borough Council and is divided into Upper Eashing on top of the steep south-east bank and Lower Eashing set low, immediately below theA3 road embankment on the north-west bank. Lower Eashing has an ancient bridge over theRiver Wey which was constructed in the 14th century by monks fromWaverley Abbey. Twenty buildings strewn across both parts are nowlisted buildings.[9] Eashing also has two large-unit business parks, The Granary and The Wharf, which are on a large island accessed by a bridge behind the Stagpublic house and the Mill.[9]
Noel Fitzpatrick's veterinary practice is located at Eashing, and has been seen in television programmes includingThe Bionic Vet.[14]
Hurtmore is a settlement and locality roughly east of Shackleford, adjoining hilly developed parts of the outskirts of Godalming such as Charterhouse Hill and Prior's Field (which is part of the village ofCompton). On Charterhouse Hill, which comes under Godalming, is a well known public school (independent).Charterhouse School. The name is derived from the wordhurt ('hart'/deer) andmere ('pond'), which still exists in a rather poor state at Hurtmore Bottom.
A hot air balloon provider,Reach 4 The Sky, operates flights from the land behind the pub cottages, historically used as a chalk quarry.[15] An 18-hole golf course with clubhouse is just off the next to thepublic house,The Squirrel,[16] which is beside theA3 and has a focus on serving food while providing a few guest rooms. It closed for a period from 28 November 2008 to 17 July 2009 and was refurbished before reopening under new management.[17]
Six listed buildings are spread about among the no more than 30 private residences, most with private woods.[9] These are: The Lodge,[18] The Church of St Mary,[10] Norney Grange,[19] The Lodge to Norney Grange,[20] Norney Farmhouse[21] and Norney Old House[22] which is aTudor period cottage with extensions. One of these, Norney Grange is Grade II* listed, (described in Landmarks, below).
Nestled among fir and beech plantations is a small neighbourhood consisting of 15 houses named Gatwick (not to be confused with the former hamlet inReigate and Banstead, or the airportof the same name), parts of which overlook part of the expanse of placid, acidheath to the northwest, theSurrey Wildlife Trust managedPuttenham & Crooksbury Commons.
Its coordinates are51°11′45″N0°41′32″W / 51.19583°N 0.69222°W /51.19583; -0.69222 (SU 916 450).
Norney Grange, designed byCharles Voysey,[19] is the highest architecturally gradedlisted building in theNorney part of the parish, a rectangular late 1897-1903 built, roughcast stone home with yellowlimestone dressings. Its interior is just as remarkable as its exterior, with among many carved features, a green marble chimney breast in end room to left and a half-dome ceiling with gallery landing to the rear. The house has featured prominently in film and on television, such as in the 2021 filmThe Dig, standing in asEdith Pretty's house atSutton Hoo, Suffolk.
William de Shackleford probably owned Hall Place - a substantial manor house which existed here in the 15th century. Its estate covered many acres, including much of today's village.
Hall Place was demolished in 1797 and a new mansion was built on the site in the late 19th century. During theSecond World War this building and much of its grounds were bought by Aldro School, which relocated there fromEastbourne.[23]
To the south-west is a late 17th-century two-storeygalleted coursedsandstone home with red brick dressings facing its round front drive, which is listed.[24]
During the reign of KingAlfred the Great anAnglo-Saxonburh was constructed at Upper Eashing as a defensive point to resistViking attacks. Both this and the 13th-century Eashing Bridge (in two parts) are Scheduled Ancient Monuments[25][26][27]
The bridge is officially listed as "probably built by the monks of Waverley Abbey"; it is made of local rubble stone with thin slabs ofBargate stone set in mortar to formvoussoirs over the arches. Its top is of 18th-century bricks with noparapet but instead for safety, twentieth-century wooden posts and railings. The east span consists of three arches and the west four. Pointedcutwaters to upstream side and rounded cutwaters, "very rare", to downstream side.[27]
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| Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | shared between households[1] |
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| (Civil Parish) | 150 | 77 | 27 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
| Output area | Population | Households | % Owned outright | % Owned with a loan | hectares[1] |
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| (Civil Parish) | 770 | 268 | 35.1% | 35.8% | 803[1] |
The proportion of households (a sizeable minority of which share buildings) in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).The population has increased from 740 in the 2001 census.
A bus services operates in Hurtmore through the village taking people into the nearby town ofGodalming.
The main line betweenLondon Waterloo andPortsmouth Harbour is accessible to the east atFarncombe, Godalming railway station andGodalming railway station is a similar distance (of about 2 miles (3.2 km) from nearer parts of Shackleford) in anESE direction and has more trains per hour.[28]
AnA3 intersection to local roads is directly between Norney and Hurtmore, which is one of three which can be used to access the town of Godalming.[9] Eashing can be accessed by bridleway and footpath under the A3 or from the A3 itself, not by local roads to the northwest.
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