Surrey

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Surrey

County town: Guildford

Other major towns: Croydon, Sutton, Cheam, Coulsdon, Purley, Epsom, Woking, Farnham, Dorking

One of the "Home Counties", and situated between the South Coast and London, it has been very important politically since the time of the Romans. Surrey is a rich, fertile county, with countless square miles of farmland, deciduous woodland, and rolling downs, as well as vast tracts of pine forest and heathland.

Guildford is the county town; with the remains of its 12th century Norman Castle, and modern-day cathedral, topped by a golden angel. Kingston-upon-Thames is probably historically more famous as being where seven Saxon kings were crowned. The Coronation Stone can still be seen in the old town centre, where ancient buildings sit alongside the modern shopping centre. Surrey is full of historic country estates and gardens, picturesque villages with thatched cottages and working mills.

It should be noted that Croydon, Sutton, Cheam, Coulsdon, & Purley, although technically in Surrey, are now part of Greater London and are all in London boroughs so not covered by Surrey County Council. Kingston is a Royal borough and, although Surrey County Council HQ is in Kingston, it too is a London borough.

Lewis Carroll often stayed with his sister at Guildford where he died in 1898.

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Register Offices

Guildford Register Office
Artington House
Portsmouth Road
Guildford, Surrey
GU2 4DZ
Tel 08456 009 009
E-mail registration.guildford@surreycc.gov.uk

Leatherhead Register Office
The Mansion
Church Street
Leatherhead
Surrey, KT22 8DP
Tel 01372 832800
E-mail registration.leatherhead@surreycc.gov.uk

Weybridge Register Office
Rylston
81 Oatlands Drive
Weybridge, Surrey
KT13 9LN
Tel 01932 794700
E-Mail registration.weybridge@surreycc.gov.uk

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Croydon Local Studies (Sch holidays usually) Deb N

• Richmond Local Studies. Weekly/Weybridge Local Studies Library. Saturdays Paul Barton, Special Agent

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Banstead Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Belmont Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Cheam Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Carshalton Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Sutton Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Wallington Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Worcester Park Winter Drawers Ever Near
• Frimley (10 mile radius) Tree Genie

Photo Offers

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Links

Primary Reference Links

• County Record Office

• Library Link

• Croydon Local Studies Library

• IGI Surrey

• Surrey History Centre Catalogue

• East Surrey FHS

• West Surrey FHS

• Wimbledon LHS

• Horley LHS

• Richmond LHS

• The Streatham Society

Countywide Interest

• Exploring Surrey's Past

• Ideal Homes Suburbia In Focus

• Pigots 1839 Directory of Surrey

• Surrey Archaeology

• Surrey Plus Wills Index to Transcribed Wills

• The Surrey Advertiser Research Site

• The Weald: Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Specific Town and Village Interest

• The Parish of Aldbury

• Ash Museum

• Ash Vale & Aldershot - British & Canadian Military History

• Bisley History and Genealogy

• Pictures of Bisley

• Brookwood Cemetery Society

• Brookwood Hospital Archives

• Croydon History

• Croydon Poor Law and Workhouse Records

• Elstead War Memorial

• Ewehurst History Society

• Frimley History, Trivia and Facts

• Frimley Green Village Community Website

• Frimley Green - Photos, Maps and Books from Francis Frith

• History and Photographs of Godalming

• John Owen Smith's Website Headley in Hampshire to Haslemere in Surrey.

• Jacob's Well

• Kingston upon Thames Historical Records

• Maps of Kingston and Surbiton Cemeteries

• Welcome to Knaphill

• Normandy Historians

• Puttenham Surrey (Inc. Wanborough)

• Puttenham - some Births and Baptisms

• Puttenham- some Burials

• Houses of Note in Reigate

• Richmond-on-Thames Cemetery Services- Burial Register Search

• Wanborough Local History and Genealogy

• Wanborough -Wanborough some Electoral Rolls and Kelly's Directory transcripts

• Woking's oral History

Maps and Photographs

• A Map of Surrey, 1768. By John Roque

• Photographs of Farnham in Surrey

• Not a website but a book!
  

Surrey Record Society Volume XXXIX
Surrey Probate Inventories 1558-1603
Transcribed by D. M. Herridge
Surrey Record Society, 2005
ISBN 0 902978 14 4
Arranged in chronological order with indexes of items (classified), people, occupations and stations, and properties. Also includes a glossary of unfamilar words, eight illustrations (two in colour), and a very interesting introduction.

• Other recommended books:

SHOTTERMILL - its Farms, Families and Mills Part 1 - Early Times to the 1700s

SHOTTERMILL - its Farms, Families and Mills Part 2 - 1730 to the Early 20th Century

Both by Greta A. Turner and available from John Owen Smith

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