Chiddingfold
Chiddingfold is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Weald in the Waverley, Surrey, Waverley district of Surrey, England. It lies on the A283 road between Milford, Surrey, Milford and Petworth. The parish includes the hamlets of Ansteadbrook, High Street Green and Combe Common. Chiddingfold Forest, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, lies mostly within its boundaries. History The name of Chiddingfold 'Chadynge's fold', , is derived from the Old English, Saxon, probably meaning the fold (enclosure for animals) "in the hollow". Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Chiddingfold was a centre for glass-making. Window glass was made in the village in the 1350s for St Stephen's Chapel, St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster and St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The village appears on Ignazio Danti's 1565 map of the British Isles, which is on display at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The Guy Fawkes festivities saw in 1887 the village policeman's house a ...
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