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Guildford is a fascinating town dating from Saxon times.
William I built the Norman castle overlooking the town from where his soldiers could dominate his Saxon subjects.
By the twelfth century Guildford had become a wealthy town as a result of the flourishing wool trade.
The austere castle was transformed into a luxurious palace visited by kings and queens over the following centuries. The seventeenth-century Abbot’s Hospital was probably the first ‘sheltered housing’ in the country.
The Angel in the High Street, a posting house and livery stables, was visited by many famous people from Sir Francis Drake to Oliver Cromwell, who billeted his soldiers there during the Civil War.
There is a reminder of another resident, Lewis Carroll, in some delightful ‘Alice’ sculptures by the River Wey.
The twentieth-century cathedral built high above the town was the first to be built since the Reformation. Over the centuries Guildford has played host to a number of colourful characters, has survived dramatic events and continues to flourish in the twenty-first century.
Secret Guildford incorporates many of the little-known stories of these characters and reveals its hidden past in this fascinating book full of quirky anecdotes and lesser-known facts.
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- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Amberley Publishing
- Publication Date:15/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781445673950
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Amberley Publishing
- Publication Date:15/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781445673950
