Godalming was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Surrey, England. It corresponds to the central third of the current borough of Waverley and some parts of the current borough of Guildford. Broadly speaking it extended from Guildown in the north to the border with Sussex in the south. Local people maintain the notion of the hundred, sometimes colloquially referred to as Godhelmia, mainly because of the predominance of north–south routes of communication through the area that have existed since ancient times. As recently as 1995 there were proposals to recreate a local government unit based on the old hundred borders. The name of the hundred survives in the town of Godalming.
Thursley village sign showing the pagan god Thunor
Will of Alfred the Great, AD 873–888, mentions Godelmingum (11th-century copy, British Library Stowe MS 944, ff. 29v–33r)
The town of Haslemere and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south west Surrey, England, around 38 mi (62 km) south west of London. Together with the settlements of Hindhead and Beacon Hill, they comprise the civil parish of Haslemere in the Borough of Waverley. The tripoint between the counties of Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex is at the west end of Shottermill.
The High Street
Town Well – one of the old wells which served the area (at the end of Well Lane)
The bust of Elizabeth I by Malcolm Stathers was installed in Charter Walk in 2001.
14 Petworth Road, the former Red Cow Inn