Busbridge | |
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Village | |
Busbridge Church built by Mr and Mrs Ramsden of Busbridge Hall, designed by George Gilbert Scott. | |
Diverse soil types and rights of way are across Busbridge which is on foothills of the Greensand Ridge. A walking area is Winkworth Arboretum. | |
Location within Surrey | |
Area | 9.92 km2 (3.83 sq mi) |
Population | 779 (Civil Parish 2011)[1] |
• Density | 79/km2 (200/sq mi) |
OS grid reference | SU979425 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | GODALMING |
Postcode district | GU8 |
Dialling code | 01483 |
Police | Surrey |
Fire | Surrey |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Busbridge is a village in the civil parish of Godalming, in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England that adjoins the town of Godalming. It forms part of the Waverley ward of Bramley, Busbridge and Hascombe. It was until the Tudor period often recorded as Bushbridge and was a manor and hamlet of Godalming until gaining an ecclesiastical parish in 1865 complemented by a secular, civil parish in 1933. Gertrude Jekyll lived at Munstead Wood in the Munstead Heath locality of the village. Philip Carteret Webb and Chauncy Hare Townshend, the government lawyer/antiquarian and poet respectively owned its main estate, Busbridge House, the Busbridge Lakes element of which is a private landscape garden and woodland that hosts a wide range of waterfowl. On 1 April 2024 the parish of "Busbridge" was renamed to "Munstead and Tuesley".[2]
The parish covers northern, heavily wooded foothills of the Greensand Ridge and drains separately to east and west into tributaries of the Wey.