by Joy Horn Main image - Common House Farm, when Edward Brown occupied it, around 1910-13. The pond is occasionally still called 'Brown's pond'. We have ...

by Joy HornMain image: The place where the war memorial was made (courtesy of Michael Miller) I live in a road that has been built up from the 1930s, but ...

by Joy Horn What was Cranleigh like 100 years ago? And what was going on?Here are a few incidents and pictures to give a flavour of life here in 1922. ...

How have Cranleigh’s pubs acquired their names? The oldest of our present pubs is The Richard Onslow. Its name is much younger than the pub itself. In the ...

Looking back and looking forward by Mike Roberts In this time of expecting the future to produce something even more exciting, such as the latest version ...

by Joy Horn Who were St Nicolas and St Cuthbert Mayne? Their names have been attached to the parish churchand to the local Catholic primary school ...

One day Dr Arthur Napper, Cranleigh’s principal doctor for fifty years, was visiting a patient who lived on the Common. ‘Lot of people today at the Baptist ...

Cranley Road, Barton, Oxford (courtesy of Al Horn) The city of Oxford is another place that has a street apparently called after our village. The suburb of ...

Named after oaks: in St Nicolas Avenue, The Ridgeway and Grove Road A new rector came to the parish church in 1962, and it happened that the winter of ...

The Coronation Arch of 1911 with Park Gate Cottages and the Windmill in the background (Cranleigh History Society Archives) As Cranleigh celebrates the ...

Clandon Park (National Trust) before the disastrous fire in 2015 A friend of mine lived in Cranleigh Road, Worthing. Why was her road called after our ...

Cromwell Cottage and Oliver House (Cranleigh Guide, 1994) Cranleigh has shown its appreciation of Oliver Cromwell by commemorating him in the names of a ...