Images of Hascombe

FRIENDS OF HASCOMBE – IMAGES OF HASCOMBE

After the AGM on 12th January the Friends were entertained by Hugh Turrall-Clarke who gave an extremely fascinating and interesting presentation on Images of Hascombe. Hugh included many old photographs of people and places including the a map of Hascombe constructed from the tithe maps of Hascombe, Hambledon and Godalming dating from 1819 to the mid 19th century.

The map showed what we now know as the Street, which was in fact the toll road from ‘Godalming, through Hascombe, to Pains Hill in the County of Surrey’. The bill to build the road was sponsored by local landowners and received the Royal Assent in 1826. Until then there was no road between Godalming and Hascombe, just windswept heath and a steep hill (Winkworth Hill) between the two. The old road ran from the White Horse, along Church Road, past Matthews Place, Upper House Farm and then onto Bramley. The new turnpike road effectively split Hascombe village in two, the old and the new - the little cluster of Bargate houses around St.Peter’s and the new houses of brick built alongside the turnpike. (Ref Mrs. Winifred Ashton’s book, A History of Hascombe – A Surrey Village.)