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OLD WEST SURREY 



are some yet living who remember it as ' Water Street ' ; 

 when there was no bridge over the Wey, and coaches, 

 road-waggons, and all wheeled traffic passed through the 

 river by a ford ; a slight wooden foot-bridge carrying those 

 who walked. A little further along, on the Guildford side, 



Old Houses in the High Street 



a lesser ford crossed a small back-water or meadow drain. 

 The bridge was built in 1782. 



Godalming High Street presents an unusually interest- 

 ing sequence of examples of local architecture. 



There is the old timber-framed inn, the ' White Hart,' 

 that must be a relic from the sixteenth century or even 

 earlier, and a timber-framed building at the beginning 

 of Church Street, and smaller examples of the same in 

 Church Street itself; and, in the High Street, some excel- 

 lent brick houses, one block of which is dated 1663. 



