Busbridge

Busbridge
Village
Busbridge Church
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.
Busbridge is located in Surrey
Busbridge
Busbridge
Location within Surrey
Area9.92 km2 (3.83 sq mi)
Population779 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density79/km2 (200/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU979425
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGODALMING
Postcode districtGU8
Dialling code01483
PoliceSurrey
FireSurrey
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
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51°10′25″N 0°35′59″W / 51.173714°N 0.599672°W / 51.173714; -0.599672

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.

  1. ^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine United Kingdom Census 2011 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
  2. ^ "Surrey Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 2 August 2024.