Byfleet, Surrey
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 Byfleet Village Hall |
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 Byfleet
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| Byfleet shown within Surrey | |
| Area | 6.24 km2 (2.41 sq mi) |
| Population | 7,724 (Ward 2011) |
| • Density | 1,238/km2 (3,210/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TQ078648 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | West Byfleet |
| Postcode district | KT14 |
| Dialling code | 01932 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Byfleet is a village of medieval origin. Byfleet takes up the far east of the borough of Woking and much of the land is within the widest gap between the Wey Navigation and the River Wey, a tributary of the Thames. Its western boundary is the M25 motorway – it lies within the orbital motorway of London and its northern extreme takes in most of Brooklands business, hotel, museum and retail estate between Byfleet and New Haw and the more major Weybridge railway station on the South Western Main Line.
July 2012 marked a historic moment in Byfleet's history, becoming a host of the men's and women's cycling road races for the 2012 Summer Olympics Games. A more common status of Surrey settlements of its size outside the M25 motorway, Byfleet is not a post town, and is therefore in the postal system a subsidiary written as a 'locality' before its longstanding offshoot with a similar population, West Byfleet, which is hillier, closer to the railway and has lower density of housing.
Byfleet has a main winding street which is bypassed more directly, containing old large public houses, a church and several timber-framed and other 16th and 17th century houses with protected status. It has a golf course and paths to nearby Pyrford, Wisley and Ripley which follow the Wey and Wey Navigation.
The village was in the Godley hundred, a Saxon division for strategic and taxation purposes. Byfleet appears in Domesday Book as Byeflete. It was held by Ulwin (Wulfwin) from Chertsey Abbey. Its domesday assets were: 2½ cultivated hides; 1 church, 1 mill rendering 5 shillings per year, 1½ fisheries worth 325 eels (per year), 6 acres (2.4 ha) of meadow, woodland worth 10 hogs. It was taxed to render all in all £4 for the year to its overlords.
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