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Wormley is a village in Surrey, England in the parish of Witley, around Witley station, off the A283 Petworth Road about 5 km (3.1 mi) SSW of Godalming.

Wormley
Village
Wormley Location within Surrey
OS grid reference	SU947383
District	Waverley
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Haslemere
Postcode district	GU8
Dialling code	01428
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	South West Surrey
List of places UK England Surrey 51°08′10″N 0°38′47″W

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.[1] The only public house, the Wood Pigeon, closed in 2007.[2]

Architecture and gardens

King Edward's School is a Grade II listed building,[3] the school war memorial is also Grade II listed.[4] Some of the gardens in Wormley were designed by Gertrude Jekyll,^{[citation needed]} who collaborated with Edward Lutyens from her home in Busbridge, a nearby village.

Notable former residents

• George Eliot is a former resident.
• Louis de Bernières who based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding,[5] on the local area. De Bernières muses whether Wormley is, or is no longer, the rural idyll.^{[citation needed]}
• Gertrude Mary Tuckwell lived the last twenty years of her life in Little Woodlands, Combe Lane.

References

External links

• Photos of Wormley

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