| Witley | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
 Typical Houses of Petworth Road, Witley | |
  Witley Location within Surrey | |
| Area | 27.76 km2 (10.72 sq mi) |
| Population | 8,130 (Civil Parish 2011)[1] |
| • Density | 293/km2 (760/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU947398 |
| • London | 33.5 miles (53.9 km) |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Godalming |
| Postcode district | GU8 |
| Dialling code | 01428 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
Witley is a village in the civil parish of Witley and Milford in the Waverley district in Surrey, England centred 2.6 miles (4 km) south west of the town of Godalming and 6.6 miles (11 km) southwest of Guildford. The land is a mixture of rural (ranging from woodland protected by the Surrey Hills AONB including a small part of the forested Greensand Ridge to cultivated fields) contrasting with elements more closely resembling a suburban satellite village. In 2011 the parish had a population of 8130.
As a civil parish it is unusual in that it includes the small town of Milford in the north. Occupying its hills in the south-west are Sandhills and Brook. On 1 April 2023 the parish was renamed from "Witley" to "Witley and Milford", at the same time part was moved to Haslemere and Peper Harow.[2][3]
Witley Common is a wide expanse of land, owned by the National Trust, crossed by the A3 road. The village is served by two stations on the Portsmouth Direct Line: Witley station, to the south in nearby Wormley, and, to the north, Milford station, which is more or less equidistant between Milford and Witley. Its church dates to the pre-Norman Conquest period of the Kingdom of England. The village has the private sector, but charitable co-educational boarding and day school King Edward's School founded in Westminster in 1553 by King Edward VI and bishop Nicholas Ridley – supported by the City of London Corporation.
- ^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
- ^ "The Waverley Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2023" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Surrey Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 4 August 2024.