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 ...

Common Crane (Grus Grus) in full flight Almost all Cranleigh’s road names have been given in the last 150 years. By contrast, many of the nearby farms and ...

A 19th-century farrier, painted by the Suffolk artist, Edward Robert Smythe (1810-99) For centuries, Cranleigh did not have road-names, and did not need ...

From Left to Right: Swallow, Nightingale and Lark In 1949, the Cranleigh Women’s Institute produced a scrapbook of Cranleigh, which is now in the care of ...