Busbridge
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_(8).JPG) Busbridge Church built by Mr and Mrs Ramsden of Busbridge Hall, designed by George Gilbert Scott. |
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 Diverse soil types and rights of way are across Busbridge which is on foothills of the Greensand Ridge. A walking area is Winkworth Arboretum, with parking area pictured. |
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 Busbridge
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| Busbridge shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 9.92 km2 (3.83 sq mi) |
| Population | 779 (Civil Parish 2011) |
| • Density | 79/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU979425 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GODALMING |
| Postcode district | GU8 4 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Busbridge is a village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England that adjoins the town of Godalming. It forms part of the Waverley ward of Bramley, Busbridge and Hascombe. It was until the Tudor period often recorded as Bushbridge and was a manor and hamlet of Godalming until gaining an ecclesiastical parish in 1865 complemented by a secular, civil parish in 1933. Gertrude Jekyll lived at Munstead Wood in the Munstead Heath locality of the village. Philip Carteret Webb and Chauncy Hare Townshend, the government lawyer/antiquarian and poet respectively owned its main estate, Busbridge House, the Busbridge Lakes element of which is a private landscape garden and woodland that hosts a wide range of waterfowl.
The parish covers northern, heavily wooded foothills of the Greensand Ridge and drains separately to east and west into tributaries of the Wey. It has no railways or dual carriageways, however the nearest stations are on the Portsmouth Direct Line 2 miles (3.2 km) away.
The village's economy is bound closely to Godalming as the two settlements are , that is, the part of Busbridge where most of its residents live as it forms a scattered settlement, rather than a nucleated village. The latter large town is formed of six surrounding suburban villages, together with an urban centre with a railway station on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs from London (in part co-running with the SWML) and bordered on the far side by the A3. Two occupation groups employed approximately half of the workforce at the 2011 census, namely: managers, directors and senior officials (78 workers) and professional occupations (81 workers).
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