15 Facts About Cranleigh

Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about 8 miles southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England.

Partly on the Greensand Ridge, where it rises to 700 feet at Winterfold Hill, but mainly on the clay and sandstone Lower Weald, Cranleigh has little of prehistoric or Roman interest, whereas just across the east border Wykehurst and Rapley Farms have Roman buildings and Roman Tile Kilns – in the parish of Ewhurst.

Cranleigh was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, at that time being part of the manor of Shere.

Cranleigh played a major role in setting up the National School in 1847 and Cranleigh School in 1865.

Cranleigh was appointed Archdeacon of Surrey and remained in the village until his death in 1906.

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Cranleigh formed the Cranleigh Gas Company in 1876, and arranged for a mains water supply in 1886.

Winterfold House near Cranleigh was requisitioned by the British Government and used by SOE Special Operations Executive, as a training school designated STS 4 and later STS 7 as the location of the Student Assessment Board.

Cranleigh Waters known as the Cranleigh Water, drains the village, before flowing to Shalford where it joins the River Wey, specifically in the small, formerly marsh-like locality of Peasmarsh, which still has water meadows lining the bank itself.

Cranleigh is twinned with Vallendar, Germany, and with Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy, eastern France.

Cranleigh was the busiest station on the line with regular commuter traffic to and from London via Guildford.

Cranleigh had a substantial goods yard equipped with a large loading gantry.

Victim of the Beeching Axe, the line closed in 1965 and Cranleigh station was demolished shortly afterwards, replaced by the "Stocklund Square" housing and shopping development.

Cranleigh became Lord Chief Justice in 1900 and died in 1915.

Cranleigh reconstructed the main facade in Queen Anne style, and enhanced the gardens with rare rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas and magnolias.

Cranleigh appears in the book The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, in which experiences which do not have words yet are given words which currently only exist as names of places.