A red-letter day finally arrived for the Forum heritage team last Friday 5 April. The Heritage Team joined forces with some like minded residents and a representative from Woking Borough Council to conduct an assessment of the Aviary Road Conservation Area and spent a very interesting couple of hours touring this interesting area of Edwardian […]
HCA Update – April 2024
HCA Update – March 2024
Well, the big news this month is that we have completed arrangements for undertaking an assessment of the Aviary Road Conservation Area on 5 April. This will be the first time an assessment has been undertaken in the last 23 years and possibly the first time the community has taken the lead in arranging it. […]
HCA Update – February 2024
The project team have received updates of the work commissioned from Headland Archaeology and this will appear on the website in due course. The Heritage section of the website has been significantly re-organised to include project team terms of reference, team meeting minutes since the start of the project and project progress so take a […]
HCA Update – January 2024
In the last month the project team have been preparing for the assessment of our current conservation areas and receiving training on how best to do that from, Woking Borough Council. The main topic this month is to discuss the importance of maps to the project but we also have a snippet of heritage ,from […]
HCA Update – November 2023
St Nicholas Church Origins
I stand to be corrected, but there is no archaeological evidence for a church on the site before St Nicholas. Yes, it is true that churches were often built on promontories, as were many pagan/pre-Christian places of worship. There is, however, no mention of a church at Pyrford in Domesday, in striking contrast to Wisley […]
River Wey & Flooding
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 […]
Meet the Beat – 20 February
Sorry for the short notice, but there is a “Meet The Beat” in Pyrford this Tuesday afternoon 20th February. Woking Police have announced on Facebook that “On Tuesday 20th February 2024, between 15:30 – 16:30, PC 41842 Sophie Tydeman and PCSO 18568 Luke Greening, your beat officers for West Byfleet/Byfleet and Pyrford, are holding one […]
West Hall Public Exhibition
LThe developer, Barratt David Wilson Homes Southern Counties, has arranged a public exhibition to present their proposals on SATURDAY 24th February 10:30 – 3pm at St John’s Church, Camphill Road, West Byfleet. KT14 for land allocated by Woking Borough Council in the Local Plan sits GB9 & GB9A known locally as the “West Hall site […]
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