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commons, where they contrived to pick up a living, and 

 many of the townspeople were engaged in manufacturing 

 the wool from the raw material to the finished article. 

 Warm woollen clothing was largely made for export to 

 Canada, as well as numbers of articles for the home trade- 

 Among these were the tilts for the great road- waggons, all 

 of wool in the older days. A woolsack appears on the 

 arms of both Guildford and Godalming, and the ' Woolpack ' 

 occurs more than once as the sign of an inn in and around 

 the town. 



There were also three large breweries in Godalming, in 

 Bridge Street. Barley whs grown on the near farms, malted 

 in the town, and hops came from the Farnham district : 

 the nearest being grown at Puttenham. 



When some excavations were being made in Bridge 

 Street a few years ago, a quantity of rough tree trunks were 

 found at a depth of seven feet from the surface, showing 

 how provision had been made for a firm foundation for the 

 road, in what had been treacherous ground full of water. 



In a book such as this it may seem ungracious to say 

 nothing about beautiful old Guildford, but the subject is 

 too large, and has already been ably treated. 



