52-484: Worplesdon is a village 3.1 miles (5.0 km) NNW of Guildford in Surrey, England and a large dispersed civil parish that includes the settlements of: Worplesdon itself (including its central church area, Perry Hill ), Fairlands , Jacobs Well , Rydeshill and Wood Street Village , all various-sized smaller settlements, well-connected by footpaths and local roads. Its area includes Whitmoor Common , which can be
104-477: A house or bungalow , which is 10.8% higher than the national average; 10% of residents live in a flat or maisonette ,12.2% lower than the national average, and 1.7% live in a caravan or mobile home . 83% of residents were born in the UK and 17% were not, which is on a par with the average for England . The religious make-up of the parish population is as follows: Merrist Wood Agricultural College stands on
156-452: A British explorer , officer , hunter , and conservationist , famous for his exploits in south and east of Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir H. Rider Haggard 's Allan Quatermain character. There is one representative on Surrey County Council, Conservative Keith Witham whose physically large ward extends into Normandy, Surrey . There are three representatives on Guildford Borough Council : Ward The following have received
208-433: A church, 9 ploughs , a mill worth 2s 6d, 8 acres (3.2 ha) of meadow , wood worth 60 hogs . Its 22 households (of which one was a serf 's) rendered £10 sterling per year to its overlords. Early manorial owners includes (all cited as "de..."): Basseville, Holeye, (13th century) Wykford, Wintershall/Wintershull, Seymour (14th century); Ditton, Hegham, Wykford. Then we see Jasper Tudor (Earl of Pembroke, then created
260-743: A collective term for all of its commons. South of Broad Street, east of Wood Street Village on a farm in Broad Street Common are ruins of a Roman Villa – for further details see the Guildford article, as it is directly by the major town's western edge however in this parish. Worplesdon has a Grade I C of E church, St Mary's with a 13th-century chancel and later additions. Worplesdon's single manor appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Werpesdune held by Turald (Thorold) from Roger de Montgomery. Its domesday assets were: 6½ hides ;
312-406: A great part of it is waste land. Whitmoor and Broad Street Commons are extensive wastes. This pinpoints the area's sands (and hence its low agricultural natural fertility) as being key to Worpledon's abundance of heath and woodlands. In traditional parish descriptions such unproductive land is described as "waste". In the 2021 Census, the parish was given an estimated population of 8,500, which
364-505: A guide for helmsmen. Prior to the modern three-figure method of describing directions (using the 360° of a circle), the 32-point compass was used for directions on most ships, especially among European crews. The smallest unit of measure recognized was 'one point', 1/32 of a circle, or 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 °. In the mariner's exercise of "boxing the compass", all thirty-two points of the compass are named in clockwise order. This exercise became more significant as navigation improved and
416-410: Is " Quarto di Tramontana verso Greco "; and northeast-by-north is " Quarto di Greco verso Tramontana ". The table below shows how the 32 compass points are named. Each point has an angular range of 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 degrees where the azimuth midpoint is the horizontal angular direction (clockwise from north) of the given compass bearing; minimum is the lower (counterclockwise) angular limit of
468-414: Is "Greco-Levante"; SSE is "Ostro-Scirocco", etc. The quarter winds are expressed with an Italian phrase, " Quarto di X verso Y" ( pronounced [ˈkwarto di X ˈvɛrso Y ] one quarter from X towards Y), or "X al Y" (X to Y) or "X per Y" (X by Y). There are no irregularities to trip over; the closest principal wind always comes first, the more distant one second, for example: north-by-east
520-491: Is almost identical to the 2011 census figure. A large common is at the heart of the parish that has mixed landscapes of heather, copses of woodland, grasslands and bracken. Clustered around the village centre and its lightly developed localities are heavily wooded commons, managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust , including Broadstreet & Backside Commons, Stringer's Common, Littlefield Common, Whitmoor/Whitmore Common, Jordan Hill, Rickford Common, and Chitty's Common. Worplesdon
572-504: Is as follows: Several volumes are not currently being worked on. Much of the content of the older VCH volumes is now accessible via the British History Online digital library , digitised by double rekeying. Priority has been given to the topographical volumes containing histories of individual parishes. The more general introductory volumes are excluded for the time being, with the exception of those sections covering
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#1732783780858624-785: Is served by the Worplesdon Memorial Hall, built in 1922 to recall those who died in World War I ; it and the adjacent recreation grounds are managed by trustees representing the donors and the Parish Council. A caretaker lives nearby. Beside the Hall are a playground and tennis and cricket facilities. There are a large events room, a meeting room, and the Sidney Sime Memorial Gallery. Worplesdon itself has few shopping facilities; however it has
676-694: The Forest of Windsor , in Worplesdon at £3 8s. per annum. In 1742 a related fine (lease premium) for this was sued for among two men of the Grenville family. In 1279 William of Wyke was holding this westerly manor. Divided between descendants Katerina, Joan and Christine in 1353, under the legal principle of female inheritance, " in moieties ". Part holders' surnames thereafter included: Logge, Osbaldeston, Harding, Parker, Manory, Vyne, White in 1580 and in 1584 sold outright to William Harding, who thus acquired
728-774: The Freedom of the Parish of Worplesdon. [REDACTED] Media related to Worplesdon at Wikimedia Commons Boxing the compass The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths ) used in navigation and cartography . A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions — north , east , south , and west —each separated by 90 degrees , and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest—each located halfway between two cardinal directions. Some disciplines such as meteorology and navigation further divide
780-649: The Middle Ages (with no obvious connection to the twelve classical compass winds of the ancient Greeks and Romans). The traditional mariner's wind names were expressed in Italian , or more precisely, the Italianate Mediterranean lingua franca common among sailors in the 13th and 14th centuries, which was principally composed of Genoese ( Ligurian ), mixed with Venetian , Sicilian , Provençal , Catalan , Greek , and Arabic terms from around
832-497: The Portsmouth Direct Line . The station is between Woking and Guildford , in the east of the village. This is separated from parts of the main village by the gently elevated northwestern flank of wooded Whitmoor, Jordan Hill and Rickford Commons, all of which are part of the village. Taking the parish as a whole: 213 people at the time of the last census were employed in finance and insurance industries. Despite
884-608: The Victoria County History 's guide to the area included the agricultural and economic description: The village and church stand upon an abrupt hill of Bagshot sand (the Bracklesham Beds), but round it the soil is lower Bagshot sand. To the south the parish is on the London Clay...There are brick and tile works, and cement works in the parish, and nursery gardens. It is otherwise agricultural, and
936-568: The Worplesdon Place Hotel and the rail station 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north-east of the village centre. Wood Street Village is, unusually, a larger "village" within the historic parish as well as the 19th-century created, civil parish. Stoughton , Guildford has a diverse parade of shops and is well-situated for access from most of the village and other settlements. Worplesdon railway station has up to three services per hour to London Waterloo , on Mondays to Saturdays on
988-482: The clockwise direction and "CCW" counterclockwise . The final three columns show three common naming conventions: No "by" avoids the use of "by" with fractional points. Colour coding shows whether each of the three naming systems matches the "CW" or "CCW" column. The traditional compass rose of eight winds (and its 16-wind and 32-wind derivatives) was invented by seafarers in the Mediterranean Sea during
1040-585: The historic counties of England , and was dedicated to Queen Victoria . In 2012 the project was rededicated to Queen Elizabeth II in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee year. Since 1933 the project has been coordinated by the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London . The history of the VCH falls into three main phases, defined by different funding regimes: an early phase, 1899–1914, when
1092-433: The pedigrees of county families . Genealogical volumes were published in a large folio format for Northamptonshire (1906) and Hertfordshire (1907), but the research costs were found to be excessive, and this side of the project was discontinued. Some of the county histories have been completed, as follows: For each uncompleted county history on which work is continuing (i.e.: "active" in VCH terminology), progress
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#17327837808581144-574: The 1950s – have been more wide-ranging in their approach, and have included systematic coverage of social and economic history , industrial history , population history , educational history , landscape history , religious nonconformity , and so on; individual parish histories have consequently grown considerably in length and complexity. From 1902 the joint general editors were H. Arthur Doubleday and William Page . Doubleday resigned (in acrimonious circumstances) in 1904, leaving Page as sole general editor until his death in 1934. In 1932 Page bought
1196-511: The 32-wind compass rose comes from the eight principal winds, eight half-winds, and sixteen quarter-winds combined, with each compass point at an 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 ° angle from the next. By the middle of the 18th century, the 32-point system had been further extended by using half- and quarter-points to give a total of 128 directions. These fractional points are named by appending, for example, 1 / 4 east, 1 / 2 east, or 3 / 4 east to
1248-729: The Duke of Bedford) who was attainted , however following Edward IV 's grant to the Duke of Clarence in 1474, it reverted to the last Duke of Bedford of the medieval creation (who died, childless). Sir Anthony Browne and his son, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu , gained a royal lease of the manor in the Tudor period, followed by Lord Annandale in 1625 for three lifetimes. The Harbord family next held it followed by John Payne of Hurtmore and Thomas Newton of Stoke (next Guildford) who owned it in 1670. Its owners until 1911 acquired what remained of
1300-556: The Institute of Historical Research published a short history of the project to mark the 75th anniversary of taking it over, it was titled The Little Big Red Book . A special edition Jubilee book was published in 2012, A Diamond Jubilee Celebration 1899–2012. A map showing the publication status appears on the VCH website. From its inception, responsibility for writing the volumes was delegated to local editors for each individual county. The county editors traditionally worked under
1352-551: The Mediterranean basin. This Italianate patois was used to designate the names of the principal winds on the compass rose found in mariners' compasses and portolan charts of the 14th and 15th centuries. The traditional names of the eight principal winds are: Local spelling variations are far more numerous than listed, e.g. Tramutana, Gregale, Grecho, Sirocco, Xaloc, Lebeg, Libezo, Leveche, Mezzodi, Migjorn, Magistro, Mestre, etc. Traditional compass roses will typically have
1404-475: The Surrey Primary League. Committee meetings are held monthly at Jacobs Well Village Hall. In the early 20th century, Worplesdon was home to the artist Sidney Sime , best known for magazine illustration and work in the books of the varied, particularly fantasy, author Lord Dunsany . In his later life Frederick Selous chronicled many of his adventures from his home in Worplesdon. Selous was
1456-499: The United States Navy to box from north and south toward east and west, with the exception that divisions adjacent to a cardinal or inter-cardinal point are always referred to that point." The Royal Navy used the additional "rule that quarter points were never read from a point beginning and ending with the same letter." Compass roses very rarely named the fractional points and only showed small, unlabelled markers as
1508-535: The VCH of this period has been described as "a history for gentlemen largely researched by ladies". From 1909 until 1931 Frederick Smith , later 2nd Viscount Hambleden , was the VCH's major sponsor. In February 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the VCH £3,374,000 to fund the England's Past for Everyone project, which ran from September that year until February 2010. The first VCH volume
1560-727: The compass point; and maximum is the upper (clockwise) angular limit of the compass point. Navigation texts dating from the Yuan , Ming , and Qing dynasties in China use a 24-pointed compass with named directions. These are based on the twelve Earthly Branches , which also form the basis of the Chinese zodiac. When a single direction is specified, it may be prefaced by the character 單 (meaning single) or 丹 . Headings mid-way in-between are compounds as in English. For instance, 癸子 refers to
1612-491: The compass with additional azimuths. Within European tradition, a fully defined compass has 32 "points" (and any finer subdivisions are described in fractions of points). Compass points or compass directions are valuable in that they allow a user to refer to a specific azimuth in a colloquial fashion, without having to compute or remember degrees. The names of the compass point directions follow these rules: In summary,
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1664-512: The direction halfway between point 子 and point 癸 , or 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 °. This technique is referred to as a double-needle ( 雙針 ) compass. Victoria County History The Victoria History of the Counties of England , commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH , is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of
1716-639: The direction of a general editor, following a uniform format and style. In general, the histories begin with one or more volumes of general studies of the county as a whole, including major themes, such as religious history, agriculture, industries, population (with summary tables of decennial census totals 1801–1901), and an introduction to and translation of the relevant section of Domesday Book . These volumes are followed by others consisting of detailed historical surveys of each Hundred , Wapentake (discussed in separate riding volumes) and ward , parish by parish. At first, ancient ecclesiastical parishes formed
1768-508: The estate as early as in 1681, the Onslow family , historically Earls of Surrey . The parish was divided into four tithings: Perry Hill, about the hill on which the church stands; Burpham, on the east side; West End; and Wyke. The last, which was separated from the rest of the parish, was added to Ash in 1890. The reputed and lost Frenches manor represented the knight's fee held there by Richard le French in 1349. In 1402 John French released
1820-524: The half- and quarter-point system increased the number of directions to include in the 'boxing'. Points remained the standard unit until switching to the three-figure degree method. These points were also used for relative measurement, so that an obstacle might be noted as 'two points off the starboard bow', meaning two points clockwise of straight ahead, 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 ° This relative measurement may still be used in shorthand on modern ships, especially for handoffs between outgoing and incoming helmsmen, as
1872-456: The heathland covering the parish, only 0.8% of residents in 2011 were employed in quarrying, forestry and agriculture, similarly real estate accounted for 1.2% of residents' occupations. Technical/scientific employers employed 10% of the population, bolstered by the University of Surrey and Institute for Animal Health (with associated major employers in life sciences, space exploration and computing). Greater than this, education employed 12% of
1924-476: The hill in the west of the village, encompassing: The village's Perry Hill School closed in 1976 to be replaced by Worplesdon Primary in Fairlands. Worplesdon Primary School caters for 539 students from the ages of 4–11. The head teacher is Mrs K O'Brien. The Normandy Youth Center serves the area by sponsoring community-based programs targeting youth in the area (especially marginal groups and minorities) for
1976-399: The initials T, G, L, S, O, L, P, and M on the main points. Portolan charts also colour-coded the compass winds: black for the eight principal winds, green for the eight half-winds, and red for the sixteen quarter-winds. Each half-wind name is simply a combination of the two principal winds that it bisects, with the shortest name usually placed first, for example: NNE is "Greco-Tramontana"; ENE
2028-408: The loss of granularity is less significant than the brevity and simplicity of the summary. The table below shows how each of the 128 directions are named. The first two columns give the number of points and degrees clockwise from north. The third gives the equivalent bearing to the nearest degree from north or south towards east or west. The "CW" column gives the fractional-point bearings increasing in
2080-445: The manor of Frenches to Robert Oyldesborough, brewer, of London, having briefly been held by William Hamonde, probably in trust and passed to Robert Russell in 1598. It is probably represented by Russell Place Farm. Anthony Russell was living in Worplesdon when Symmes wrote, about 1676. In 1582 the queen, by charter, granted a lease to George More of Loseley of Merest Wood described as 82 acres (33 ha) of wood and wooded ground in
2132-404: The name of one of the 32 points. Each of the 96 fractional points can be named in two ways, depending on which of the two adjoining whole points is used, for example, N 3 / 4 E is equivalent to NbE 1 / 4 N. Either form is easily understood, but alternative conventions as to correct usage developed in different countries and organisations. "It is the custom in
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2184-424: The northwest are Pirbright and Deepcut with significant UK Army presences, although the latter's barracks has been redeveloped into homes. Public Administration and Defence; Compulsory Social Security's total of people was 38 fewer than manufacturing, which gave employment to 239 people in 2011. The average level of accommodation in the region comprising detached houses was 28%, the average comprising apartments
2236-412: The population (549 people). Wholesale and retail trade, and the sale/repair of motor vehicles was the most important single category with 639 people. Next, just behind education, was health and social work employing 495 people. Accommodation and food service activities, combined with the category of arts, entertainment and recreation, employed a similar figure of 440 people. Two neighbouring villages to
2288-426: The project was conceived as a commercial enterprise, and progress was rapid; a second more desultory phase, 1914–1947, when relatively little progress was made; and the third phase beginning in 1947, when, under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, a high academic standard was set, and progress has been slow but reasonably steady. These phases have also been characterised by changing attitudes towards
2340-512: The proper scope of English local history . The early volumes were planned on the model of traditional English county histories , with a strong emphasis on manorial descents, the advowsons of parish churches, and the local landed gentry : a prospectus of c. 1904 stated that "there is no Englishman to whom [the VCH] does not in some one or other of its features make a direct appeal". More recent volumes – especially those published since
2392-598: The purpose of increasing exposure to educational opportunities and building a stronger community . The Worplesdon and Burpham Cricket Club traces its origins to 1890, and Worplesdon & Burpham CC was established in 1999 following the merger of Worplesdon CC and Burpham CC. There are two teams playing on Saturday in the Fullers Brewery Surrey County League and one team on Sunday playing in The Village League. A new pavilion
2444-527: The rights to the ailing project for a nominal sum, donating it to the Institute of Historical Research the following year. Page was succeeded as general editor by L. F. Salzman , who remained in post until 1949. The early volumes depended heavily on the efforts of a large number of young research workers, mostly female, fresh from degree courses at Oxford , Cambridge , London or the Scottish universities , for whom other employment opportunities were limited:
2496-424: The unit of investigation, but since the mid-1950s the VCH parish is the civil parish , the modern successor of the ancient parishes or of townships within them. Large towns are dealt with as a whole, including, since the 1960s, built-up areas of adjoining, formerly rural parishes. Under the original plan, each county, in addition to its general and topographical volumes, was to have a genealogical volume containing
2548-585: The whole again. Henceforth it descended with the manor of Claygate in Ash, Surrey . Adjacent to the church a London to Portsmouth semaphore tower (now demolished) served in the Napoleonic wars . The east window was embellished with stained glass, collected and arranged in 1802, at the expense of the Rev. W. Roberts and by the 1840s the whole parish's population was 1424 (which then included Burpham and Wyke). In 1911
2600-409: Was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible percentage of households living rent-free). In the 2021 census, it was found that 88.2% of residents live in
2652-517: Was opened in 2008 providing much larger facilities. There is also Worplesdon Phoenix FC playing in the Surrey Counties Intermediate League and Guildford and Woking Alliance League and, since 1991, Worplesdon Tennis Club, with a new clubhouse (2005). Worplesdon Rangers FC is another football club based in and around the parish; the club was founded in 2001 and caters for pre-reception to Under 18 age-groups playing in
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#17327837808582704-442: Was published in 1901, and publication continued slowly throughout the 20th century, although in some counties it has come to a halt, especially during World War I and again in the 1970s. Some inactive counties have recently been reactivated. There are now more than 230 VCH volumes, with around three new volumes published per year. Each is published with a red cover, and they are therefore sometimes known as "the big red books". When
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