Guildford, Surrey - Farnham Road 1911 photo - repro postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Guildford, Surrey - Farnham Road, 1911 photo - [on modern card]
• Publisher:  Frith Collection, Andover
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Guildford ⁱ/'g?lf?d/^[2] is the county town of Surrey, England and the seat of the borough of Guildford. The town is 27 miles (43 km) southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road mid-way between the capital and Portsmouth.^[3]

Guildford has Saxon roots^[4] and historians attribute its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey was forded by the Harrow Way^{[n 1]}. The town's access was sufficient^{[clarification needed]} that by AD 978 it was home to an early English Royal Mint.^[6] On the building of the Wey Navigation and Basingstoke Canal Guildford was connected to a network of waterways that aided its prosperity.^[5] In the 20th century, the University of Surrey and Guildford Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral, were added.^[7]

Due to recent development running north from Guildford, and linking to the Woking area, Guildford now officially forms the southwestern tip of the Greater London Built-up Area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics.

The root of the first part may be gold rather than Guild, a society or meeting of tradesmen: the only known 10th century (Saxon) record uses Guldeford and in the 11th century Geldeford^{[5][n 2]}; both meaning gold and ford. Local historians on toponyms cite the lack of gold in the regions's sedimentary rocks and have suggested that this gold may refer to golden flowers by the ford,^[8] or the golden sand;^[9] several older sources such as Lewis's topological dictionary of 1848 prefer and give an unreferenced assertion there was a guild.^[10] There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the 'Sanford Arms' may derives from 'Sand Ford', adding weight to the suggestion that the first part of Guildford and its many historic predecessors may refer to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.^[11]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=surrey

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted