Godalming has a long and rich history


The Museum

Take a virtual tour of the museum here
Go to the Site Index here 
Better still visit the Museum at 109a High Street opposite the Pepperpot.  The Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 4pm daily  (5pm in Summer) Telephone 0

Godalming Views

Its numerous inns and ale houses provided hospitality for travellers on the London to Portsmouth road. Take this link for views of Godalming High Street Then and Now 

Distinguished People

Many distinguished people are associated with the town.  Go to the index of personalities here.  Godalming's distinguished people include 

General Jame Oglethorpe, who lived in Godalming, and founded the colony of Georgia in the USA in 1732 with 120 settlers. Click here.

Getrude Jeckyll, Sir Edwin Lutyens The Godalming area is rightly associated with the extraordinary talents of the  gardener Gertrude Jeckyll who had a profound influence on garden design, and the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens who is generally regarded as one the great British architects of the 20^th Century. Gertrude Jeckyll click here.  Sir Edwin Lutyens click here

Jack Phillips - Godalming was home for John "Jack" Phillips - the heroic chief wireless telegraphist who died at his post aboard the Titanic on the night she sank. Click here

The stories of these distinguished people and many more are to be found on the Godalming Museum Web Site - Click here to go to the Index