Wrecclesham
| Wrecclesham | |
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 Wrecclesham village sign |
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| Wrecclesham shown within Surrey | |
| Population | 3,079 |
| OS grid reference | SU826449 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Farnham |
| Postcode district | GU10 |
| Dialling code | 01252 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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Wrecclesham is a village on the southern outskirts of the large town of Farnham in Surrey, England. Its local government district is the Borough of Waverley.
Wrecclesham recreation ground caters for cricket, football, rugby and tennis clubs. This is where Jonny Wilkinson and Graham Thorpe started careers in their professional sports, as well as many sportsmen of some generations before such as Billy Beldham and Vic Cannings.
It was once in the estate of Henry of Westminster and Blois the powerful 13th-century bishop who owned the majority of the fertile portion of the land, in what was then Farnham and soon became the related parishes of Farnham and Frensham in Farnham Hundred. Farnham remains in use as Wrecclesham's post town. Wrecclesham acquired village status in 1840 when its first place of worship was built.
Wrecclesham's historic character is shown by the presence of the Farnham Pottery, this is one of the best preserved examples of a working Victorian country pottery left in England and is Grade II Listed. It serves as a cafe for locals. Just past Wrecclesham Hill is the hamlet of Holt Pound, what is now the Holt Pound recreation ground was one of the chief cricket grounds in Surrey. It was used as the venue for three important matches between 1791 and 1809 as well as for a number of minor matches.
51°12′20″N 0°49′36″W / 51.205627°N 0.82672°W
Runwick is made up of smallholdings immediately across from main road north of the large village on the Hampshire-Surrey border. The '-' part of the name meant hamlet and from the 13th-century farm, still used in the far east of England to mean 'farm'. The run part of the name relates to an Anglo Saxon England owner, as in Runfold, which is a similar distance from Farnham.
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