Great Bookham

Statistics
Population:	About 10,000
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TQ1354
Administration
District:	Mole Valley D.C.
Shire county:	Surrey
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Surrey
Historic county:	Surrey
Services
Police force:	Surrey Police
Ambulance service:	South East Coast
Post office and telephone
Post town:	Leatherhead
Postal district:	KT23
Dialling code:	01372
Politics
UK Parliament:	Mole Valley
European Parliament:	South East England

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The Bookhams

Great and Little Bookham are part of the Saxon settlement of Bocham - "the village by the beeches". They are surrounded by common land which consist of grassland (wet, low-lying meadows), woodland, scrub and 12 ponds. The ponds are home to all three British species of newt, including the rare Great Crested Newt. The five largest ponds are man-made, formed for fish-production in the 17th-century. Little Bookham is a village in Surrey. ... The famous parade helmet found at Sutton Hoo, probably belonging to King Raedwald of East Anglia circa 625. ... Common land, or just common, is frequently used to describe a parcel of land, usually near the centre of towns and villages, which is thought to be owned in common by all the members of the community. ... An Inner Mongolian Grassland. ... A meadow is a tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay. ... Limber Pine woodland, Toiyabe Range, central Nevada Biologically, a woodland is differentiated from a forest. ... A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake. ... This article is about the animal called newt. ... Binomial name Triturus cristatus (Laurenti, 1768) The Great Crested Newt or Northern Crested Newt, Triturus cristatus, is a newt in the family Salamandridae. ...

The villages are situated on the A246 which is the main route for traffic travelling between the Surrey towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. Whilst once two distinct villages, the Bookhams have long been interconnected with residential roads that give most newcomers the impression that it is in fact one large village. The residents of this Surrey commuter village are typically very affluent but there are still pockets of "working Class" it is challenging to find a modest ex council family house for less than £250,000 and a spacious five bedroom property would not seem unusual at one million pounds or more. There is a local campaign, ever gathering in momentum, to have the phrase 'silly not to' adopted as the village motto. Leatherhead is a medium-sized town in Surrey, England, on the River Mole, Surrey. ... Statistics Population: 66819 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SU9949 Administration District: Guildford Shire county: Surrey Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Surrey Historic county: Surrey Services Police force: Surrey Police Ambulance service: South East Coast Post office and telephone Post town...

Bookham Youth

Bookham’s youth have receive a mixed reception in this leafy suburb, lacking in an authoritative voice there views are often belittled & ignored. The bureaucratic, profit hungry, waste of space that is there local youth service is on constant drive to destroy the local youth centre & lavish of the spoils the desirable land would provide.

Aside from the youth club, activists in the village are somewhat limited and lead to most of the “juveniles” congregating at the local recreation ground/skate part or outside the local convenience store (Rusts), while indulging in the favourite British pastime underage binge drinking, which inevitable leads to the obligatory drunken violence and rampant sex further increasing the underage teenage mother statistics, avoidance of the local post office on a Tuesday morning is recommended, picture feeding at the zoo but with witless spotty teenagers and there chaved up babies and your getting close to the chaos that is benefit day.

Not all the youth within the village are a waste of space, there are many fine and upstanding member of the youth community, there is a church program that see’s local youth performing services to the community. And of course a whole wave of public school children that aren’t even allowed to leave house after 4pm, who I am sure are fine young specimens.

Once you get pasted the chavish exterior of Bookham’s youth culture you will find its based or archaic “youth mob” figures who gained “Legend” status in the mid to late 90’s and who still inspire the new generation of trouble makers. Harmless except to themselves. While no will deny there is crime, drugs & violence in Bookham the scale is almost “missable” and the youth can be friendly and forthcoming, all you have to do is understand and respect them, and they’ll do the same.

Villains & Legends of Bookham

• Dave Gould
• Alex Gould
• Brain Coats
• Ashley Austin
• Peter Bell
• Ginger
• Jack

Geography

To the west of the Bookhams lies the village of Effingham; further west on the road to Guildford the similar villages of East and West Horsley and Clandon are to be found. To the North-East lie Fetcham and Leatherhead, north of which the area becomes increasingly urban as you head towards central London, which is only 23 miles away. To the South-East, across the North Downs, you will find the village of Westhumble and the market town of Dorking. Statistics Population: Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TQ1153 Administration District: Guildford Shire county: Surrey Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Surrey Historic county: Surrey Services Police force: {{{Police}}} Ambulance service: South East Coast Post office and telephone Post town: Leatherhead Postal district... Fetcham is a residential area in Surrey, England. ...

The village has a bustling high street, located in Great Bookham, which is, as its name suggests, the larger of the two villages. It is well served with a diversity of traditional English high street shops selling high quality, if very expensive merchandise. It is particularly noteworthy for sporting two of the most high quality butchers in the South of England.

In terms of evening entertainment, pubs are the order of the day, with The Anchor, Royal Oak, Old Crown and Ye Olde Windsor Castle all being situated in the village. Legend has it that King Henry VIII's hunting parties used to pass through Bookham and stop in the Windsor, hence its royal name. The village also boasts a French bistro style restaurant and a well frequented curry house.

Great Bookham Common

Great Bookham Common was bought by local residents in 1923 to save the oak woodlands, then given to the National Trust. Little Bookham Common was given to the Trust in 1924 by Mr H Willock-Pollen, then Banks Common in 1925 by Mr R Calburn. Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ...

The London Natural History Society has been surveying Bookham Commons for over 50 years, making it one of the best recorded sites for wildlife in south east England.

Some History

According to a charter C.675, the original of which is lost but which exists in a later form, there was granted to the Abbey twenty dwellings at Bocham cum Effingham. This was confirmed by four Saxon kings; Offa, King of the Mercians and of the nations roundabout in 787; Athelstan who was King and ruler of the whole island of Britain in 933 confirmed the privileges to the monastery; King Edgar, Emperor of all Britain in 967 confirmed "twelve mansiones" in Bocham, and King Edward the Confessor, King of the English in 1062 confirmed twenty mansae at Bocham cum Effingham, Driteham and Pechingeorde. Events The abbey of Abingdon, England is founded Aldhelm made abbot Aethelred succeeds his brother Wulfhere as king of Mercia Births Deaths Wulfhere, king of Japan - Temmu Emperor of Japan (672-686) Categories: 675 ... Offa (or Alavivaz Olauus) (? - c. ... Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams. ... This article is about the year 787. ... Events Jersey was seized by William Longsword, Duke of Normandy . ... Monastery of St. ... King Edgar or Eadgar I ( 942 – July 8, 975) was the younger son of King Edmund I of England. ... Edward the Confessor or Eadweard III (c. ... Events Founding of Marrakech The Almoravids overrun Morocco and establish a kingdom from Spain to Senegal. ...

Driteham and Pechingeorde are both referred to in the Domesday Book and appear to have been absorbed into the manors of Effingham and Effingham East Court.

It seems probable, as the number of cottages in Bocham cum Effingham remained constant, that the later charters must have been copies of earlier charters which were not revised to accord with the actual number of cottages at any one time.

Jane Austen is said to have spent time in Bookham whilst writing several of her novels in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The King and Queen of Yugoslavia were evacuated to a house in Bookham during the second world war, and King George VI spent his honeymoon in Polesden Lacey, a stately home situated in the south of the village. Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all South Slavic languages, Југославија in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic) is a term used for the three separate political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) (14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was the third British monarch using the name Windsor. ...

Domesday Book record

The Domesday Book 1086, which was a survey for taxation purposes, makes the first known distinction between the parishes of Great and Little Bookham. If it is assumed that there was no separate parish at the time of the charter of Edward the Confessor in 1062 Doomesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was similar to a census by a government of today. ...

By way of confirmation of this supposition that there is no distinction between the two parishes of Great and Little Bookham, as recently as 1824, lay documents relate to land transactions, in which land was described as being "in Great Bookham in the parish of Bookham".

See also

• Bookham Commons
• Little Bookham

Bookham Commons (grid reference TQ128565) are two commons, situated just to the north of the village of Fetcham, in Surrey, England, 1. ... Little Bookham is a village in Surrey. ...

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