The Wey Navigation Canal was one of the first canals to be completed in 1653. It was designed to make the River Wey navigable to the River Thames and provide a merchant route from Guildford to London. In Pyrford the canal is actually higher than the surrounding farmland and on completion of the canal local […]
Arthur J Munby 1828 – 1910
A curious local resident Arthur Joseph Munby leased Wheelers Farm from 1878 until his death in 1910. Munby was educated to be a barrister and was called to the bar in 1855. His interest however was working-class women, particularly those who performed hard physical labour. A pastime was wandering the streets of London and other […]
St Nicholas Church
The manor of Pyrford is mentioned in Domesday (1086). But St Nicholas dates only from the late Norman period (circa 1150-60) and is one of several churches founded in the wake of the destructive (particularly in Surrey) civil wars between King Stephen and Matilda. Henry de Blois, younger brother of Stephen and bishop of Winchester […]
Pyrianforda to Pyrford?
I’m sure you all know that Pyrford is the modern-day derivative of the Anglo-Saxon for ‘the pear tree by the ford’. But did you know there are 10 other recorded stages the name of our village went through: Pyrianforda c956, 1250 Piriford c1067, 1107 Peliforde c1086 Perford c1175 Pyryford c1263 Pireford, Pyreford […]
C F A VOYSEY
CHARLES FRANCIS ANNESLEY VOYSEY, 1857 – 1941 The celebrated architect of Littlecourt, pictured above, was a talented contempory of Edwin Lutyens. Articled to J.P. Seddon, Voysey worked for G. Devey in 1880,but at the outset of his own career turned to decorative design while waiting for his architectural practice to gain momentum. He joined the […]
W G TARRANT
‘WG Tarrant: Master Builder and Developer’ by Mavis Swenarton. First published as Monograph 24 by the Walton and Weybridge Local History Society. W.G. Tarrant was one of the most influential and prolific builders in Surrey in the first third of the 20th century. Today the term ‘Tarrant-built’ is used widely to describe houses on St. […]
MRS WATERS ?!
PYRFORD COMMON HISTORY
During the litter pick, when I went along the perimeter fence of the Common, I saw the following boundary stone:- The initials relate to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke who owned the land in 1885. One of previous Forum Committee Member, Carole Gale, wrote a history of Pyrford Common, which information about Sir Charles Dilke and […]
The Old House – October 2022
Rowley Bristow – May 2022
The following picture & article was posted by Surrey History centre on Facebook. With their permission I repeat it in this newsletter. “Here’s a music lesson with a difference! Patients playing instruments in the outdoor ward at Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital in Pyrford in the 1950s. The hospital pioneered research into the treatment of bones […]
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