Jacobs Well, Surrey
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 Village Hall on an edge of the network of residential roads |
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 Boardwalk in Riverside Park in flood-meadows north of the settlement by the River Wey |
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| Jacobs Well shown within Surrey | |
| Population | 1,171 |
| OS grid reference | TQ0053 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Guildford |
| Postcode district | GU4 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Jacobs Well or Jacobswell is a small village in Surrey, England, of 20th century creation, with a population of 1,171. The village forms a northern outskirt of Guildford, in the civil parish of Worplesdon which can be considered the mother village of medieval date to the west. The Stoke Hill part of Stringers Common, Slyfield Industrial Estate and a Surrey County Council general waste transfer station to the south form the narrowest of its buffer zones to all sides, separating the Slyfield part of Guildford from the village.
Between Jacobs Well and Burpham to the south-east and east lie the River Wey, Burpham Court Farm Park, the River Wey Navigation, and the A3, in that order.
Other nearby settlements include Sutton Green (beyond which is Old Woking) to the NNE.
The farm of Burgham Court (now reflected in the farmhouse of Burpham Court) until the 20th century owned most of the land on the east side of the parish (which was a major source of poor relief and public works - see vestry). Outskirts of the land remain common land, which was the only main type of land not to have been owned by the lord of the manor. The manor was handed down via lines of the interconnected Wintershull/Wintershall, Bassett, Unwyn, Windsor, Wolley and Wroth family from Thurstan le Dispenser at the time of the Testa de Nevill into ultimately the major landholdings of the Earls Onslow in the 18th century, historically the Earl of Surrey who held it until the early 20th century.
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