Worplesdon
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Worplesdon is a village in Surrey, England, located two miles north of Guildford. The parish includes the settlements of Fairlands, Jacobs Well and Wood Street. Worplesdon has a medieval village church, St Mary's. Adjacent to the church, a semaphore tower (now demolished) served in the Napoleonic wars. The village school, Perry Hill, closed in the 1960s and there is now a new school, Worplesdon Primary, in Fairlands.
Merrist Wood Agricultural College stands on the hill to the west of Worplesdon encompassing a wood and pond, a plant nursery, an arboriculture training area, an equestrian center, a golf course, and a farm.
Worplesdon is served by the Worplesdon Memorial Hall, built in 1922 to recall those who died in World War I; it and the adjacent recreation grounds are managed by trustees representing the donors and the Parish Council. A caretaker lives nearby. Beside the Hall are a playground and tennis and cricket facilities. There is a large events room, a meeting room, and an upstairs gallery.
The Worplesdon and Burpham Cricket Club traces its origins to 1890, and there is also Worplesdon Football Club and, since 1991, Worplesdon Tennis Club, with a new Clubhouse (2005).
Worplesdon no longer has shops or banking facilities but there is the Worplesdon Place Hotel and Worplesdon railway station is located approximately and mile and a half to the north-east of the village. There are a number of commons, managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust, in the area, including Broadstreet & Backside Commons, Stringer’s Common, Littlefield Common and Chitty’s Common.
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- Notes within www.surreycc.gov.uk, as checked at April 6th 2007
