Send is a

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and

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in the Guildford borough of the

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. The name is thought to mean "sandy place" and sand was extracted at various periods until the 1990s at pits in the outskirts of the parish. Send is buffered by

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from other villages and towns except for the Grove Heath neighbourhood of Ripley. A rural band of the village adjoins the

River Wey The River Wey is a main tributary of the River Thames in south east England. Its two branches, one of which rises near Alton, Hampshire, Alton in Hampshire and the other in West Sussex to the south of Haslemere, join at Tilford in Surrey. Onc ...

including Cartbridge and Send Marsh – this land has been drained and the river tamed by sluices, the Broadmead Cut and the

Wey Navigation The River Wey Navigation and Godalming Navigation together provide a continuous navigable route from the River Thames near Weybridge via Guildford to Godalming (commonly called the Wey Navigation). Both waterways are in Surrey and are owned b ...

. The vast majority of the built-up areas are not within an area of flood risk. Between the river and the navigation, in the far north of the parish, are the Papercourt and Broad Mead SSSIs.

History

The first record of Send is from a 1063 copy of a survey from , in which the settlement appears as ''Sendan''. Throughout the middle ages, it is recorded as ''Sande'', ''Saunde'' and ''Sonde''. The name is thought to derive from the

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''sænde'' indicating a sandy place. Send appears in the

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of 1086 as ''Sande''. It was held by Rainald (Reginald) from Alvred de Merleburgh (

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). Its Domesday assets were: 20

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s; 1 church, 10

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s, 2

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s worth £1 3s 6d, 5

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worth 4s 6d, of

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woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the '' plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunli ...

for 160 hogs. It rendered £15 10s 0d per year to its overlords. In this case the manorial lords were simply recorded as Herbert; Reginald son of Erchenbald; and Walter, seemingly

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. It was held at the time of the

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by Karli of Norton. The parish saw a little-known skirmish. On 14 June 1497 the first Cornish Rebellion was launched against Henry VII; the rebels were marching from

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to Kent unbeknown to the King, and after passing

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they had a skirmish with some of the outposted royal troops on the road from Guildford to London. The troops fell back or were outmanoeuvred, for they had lost the rebels on the 16th and were looking for them on the

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again near Kingston when they were actually on the border of Kent. Old maps mark the place where the road crosses the stream which joins the Wey near Send as St. Thomas's Waterings. Ripley was, at the time of the Domesday Book, a

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of Send. In 1878 Ripley gained its own parish. The earliest official record, such as a

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, revealing its manor's existence is in 1279. Growth in ambition of the local nobility coupled with a large enough population led to the first place of worship being built at Ripley, to become a

chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status A chapelry had a similar status to a Township (England), township, but was so named as it had a chapel of ease ...

to St Mary the Virgin, around the year 1160.

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s were developed in the south of Send by the 1870s, and continued to be worked until at least 1911. The

Leese baronets The Leese Baronetcy, of Sendholme in Send in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 July 1908 for Joseph Leese, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Accrington from 1892 to 1910. The thi ...

" of Sendholme in Send in the County of Surrey", who lived at the large house of that name in the village, bore a title created in 1908 for

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Member of Parliament for

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from 1892 to 1910. The third Baronet was a

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in the

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and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Land Forces in South-East Asia from 1944 to 1945 and as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command from 1945 to 1946. Send was the base of the defunct 1950s

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and

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constructor

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Geography and transport

Send is a lightly dispersed village centred south-west from

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and south-west of junction 10 of the M25 and has a developed clustered centre on the old course of the

which bisects the highest settled part of the village, Burntcommon, which is on the start of rise of the

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. This road was relieved by the construction of a six-lane bypass, part of the A3 trunk road, which now forms the long south-east border of the village. The other principal road is the A247 Woking to West Clandon road which passes through the village from north to south. The parish is bounded to the west and part of its northern side by the River Wey, which is controlled by sluices and has been expanded in capacity by a navigable channel running alongside, the Wey Navigation. The nearest railway stations are at

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, on the New Guildford Line, and

Woking Woking ( ) is a town and borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in north-west Surrey, England, around from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as ''Wochinges'', and its name probably derives from that of a Anglo-Saxon settleme ...

, on the

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, which offer frequent fast and semi-fast services to London. White Bus Services operate irregular routes 462 and 463 through Send village between Woking and Guildford, while Falcon Buses runs the hourly route 715 through Burntcommon between

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and Guildford.

Soil

Send is on a gently rising patch of Bagshot Sand, with Cartbridge, like Ripley, on sand and

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of the lower Wey Valley; a southern part of the parish is on generally higher still London Clay.

Elevation

Elevations range from

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in the southGrid square map

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website to at the far northern border on the

.Grid square map

website

Localities

Cartbridge

Cartbridge is a mostly amorphous locality that covers the western end of the village's main street, particularly where it turns to the north towards

Send Marsh

The neighbourhood is contiguous with the clustered, built-up estates of Boughton Court Avenue and the

forming Burntcommon. For census analyses of the largest neighbourhoods in Surrey, in 2001 the county council opted to consider Burntcommon as a non-notable locality jointly with Send Marsh. On this basis its population at the

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was almost half of the village as a whole, at 1,937. Send Marsh has Send's Grade II listed late 17th century

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by the

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. It is built of brown brick in

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. The hamlet has one public house, called the ''Saddlers Arms'', but no shops or church. Unusually for Guildford schools it is within the admission priority area of Guildford's

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most years and the boundaries have not to date excluded it to be replaced by for instance closer areas of north-western

Burntcommon

Burntcommon is a locality of Send that directly adjoins Send Marsh. Its nearest town is

, which lies approximately north-west.

Amenities

Health and well-being

The small Send Surgery on Send Road next to the Church Rooms closed in 2003 and reopened on Send Barns Lane as the modern Villages Medical Centre serving 7,000 people in Send, Ripley and the surrounding villages. The old surgery is now occupied by a beauty treatment business. The Old Hall, on Send Marsh Road, is now a residential care home.

Businesses

The main route through the community runs NE/SW, the A247 Send Road, along which are scattered the shops, businesses and facilities. These include the post office, a takeaway, diving shop/centre, a fireplace outlet, an independent funerals firm, a hairdressers, a microscope and measuring devices manufacturer, Ghost Production Studios, based at the Old Riding Stables on Send Hill, have worked with several well-known clients, including Paul Connelly, Ben Lovejoy, Sue Macmillan, Social,

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, Go West,

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, Heat Wave, Charlie Morgan, Mark Brizickey,

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, and Draven.

Recreation

Send has a recreation ground, the Lancaster Hall and the Church Rooms. There are two

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in the village: ''The New Inn'' in Cartbridge, adjacent to the

and ''The Saddlers Arms'' in Send Marsh.

Schools

Send National School, off Send Hill, was built in 1834 and enlarged in 1892. When the school closed, the building was converted to residential use. It is now known as The Old School. Send Church of England Central School was built in 1939 but, with war imminent, its opening was delayed until 1941 in case the building was required for military use. During the planning process questions were raised in the House of Commons about the provision of adequate drainage. Initially conceived as a secondary school, it was built on a large plot of land with space for facilities including a light engineering workshop, a carpentry room, a domestic science room and a gymnasium, in addition to a vast playing field. Over time it became known as St Bede's and, from 1972, was relaunched as a middle school. Facilities grew to include two outdoor swimming pools. Send Church of England (Foundation) First School was built in 1958. Send's two schools formed the Federation of Send Church of England Schools on 29 March 2012. Under its final title, St Bede's Church of England (Aided) Junior School buildings were demolished in Summer 2017 and a replacement building for 7– to 11-year-olds was erected on the Send First School site on Send Barns Lane.

Religion

Church of England

Send parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and dates from around 1220. The nave was rebuilt and the tower added in around 1485. New kitchen and toilet facilities were completed in 2002. A York stone path was laid in the churchyard in 2003. The church is a Grade II* listed building and is the oldest building still in use in Send. In January 2008 the church was voted Visitor/Leisure Attraction of the Year in the Guildford ''Life with Style'' awards, attracting 75% of the votes and beating the

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gardens at

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Tour Guides and Surrey Hills Llamas. In October 2008 the church received the Mayor of Guildford's Award for Access.

Roman Catholicism

St William of York ( RC) church closed in 2007.

Evangelical

Send

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opened in May 1974 using the former

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chapel in Cartbridge, built in 1875.

War memorials

Send has three such memorials. A Celtic-style stone cross next to the Church Rooms on Send Road rises above these inscriptions: "1914–1918 In memory of the men of this village who at the call of duty gave their lives their country. Faithful unto death." The names of the fallen are: *(1914–1918) G. Frederick Barnes, William Barnett, Arthur Brackley, William C. Collins, George F. Craddock, Trevor Durrant, Robert G. Fuller, Albert Giles, William Giles, Alan F. M. Grant, David Millard, Archibald Muir, Maurice Simmonds, W. Kenneth Sinclair, Robin R. Skene, Ernest Tickner, Jack Tickner, Herbert W. Walls, Ernest A. Whapshot, Sidney Wright, Alfred Wye. *(1939–1945) Robert P. Dixon, Bradford W. O. Dockerty, Robin Giles, Rupert P. James, Frank Hack, Hubert E. Murrell, Ian Matheson, Brian T. Opperman, Donald W. S. Price, William Smith, Edward P. Winton, Edward Wood, Leslie Woolley, William Pratt. A brick memorial mounted with a wrought iron "1914 1918" in the recreation ground near the corner of Send Road and Sandy Lane bears the words: "This recreation ground was purchased by public subscription and was opened on 1 June 1920 for the benefits of the inhabitants of Send as a memorial to the sailors and soldiers who fell and in grateful recognition of those in the village who took part in the Great War of 1914–1918. Trustees: S. S. Boorman, A. H. Lancaster, J. A. Shirer, W. M. Grant, F. W. Morgan Jones, W. G. Whitbourn." A stone tablet on the north wall of the nave inside the parish church bears this inscription: "The peal of six bells was hung as a memorial to those of this parish who lost their lives in two world wars and as a thank offering for victory." The names listed are the same as on the Celtic-cross memorial but with the addition of five people "killed by enemy action": V. Bowers, H. C. Parsons, H. E. Privett, M. J. Privett and V. Privett. Members of the Privett family were killed on 21 August 1944 by the explosion of a

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which landed on their home at Burnt Common Cottages.

Demography and housing

The

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reported Send's population to be 4,245, an increase of 107 since the 2001 census. The number of households was 1,665, an increase of 42 since the 2001 census. Of the accommodation in the region, 28% was composed of detached houses, and 22.6% was composed of apartments. The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).

Occupations

The

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provides some professional occupations and technical businesses, the schools and nearby prison form most of the government merit services; other occupations existing in the parish include manufacturing, agriculture and food and leisure-related categories of employment. Nonetheless, the village demographically has a very high proportion of professionals and in relation to these, it is part of the

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, with the

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being the main destination by train from

. The nearest entertainment and large retail premises are in Woking. A former landfill in Send is a 20 hectare plantation of short rotation coppice

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. Occupations of the 2,114 workers between the ages of 16 and 74 were broken down in the 2011 census as follows:

Population over time

Data for 1801–1961 is available at Britain Through Time. The loss of Ripley in 1878 ecclesiastically and in 1933 as a secular administrative unit (civil parish) represented almost half of the land area of the village.

Popular culture

Music

The Send Barns Orchestra, conducted by Jeremy Gilbert, are credited on the 1977

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album ''

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'', large parts of which were recorded at his home in Send.

Film location

In 1969, a scene for The Telling Bone episode of

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, featuring

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, filmed two backgrounds in Send: Church Lane using the

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and Send Parish Church and 1 Heath Farm Cottages, Tannery Lane as "Sam's Cottage". "Sam Woodyard" was played by Neil McCarthy. In 1999, scenes for

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, starring Dame

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and

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, were filmed in the churchyard. In April 2009, scenes for a

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Drama production of

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's " Emma", adapted by

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and starring

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and

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, were filmed in and around Send Parish Church. In August 2012, Willow Drive was used to film scenes for Cuban Fury, starring

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Prison

Counterintuitively now named after the village is HMP Send, a women's prison on the site of a former isolation hospital. Following parish area reduction in the south the jail is now in the southern part of the parish of Ripley surrounded by farmland and woodland.

Sport

Send's local

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team is Send United. There is sailing on Papercourt Lake, which is owned by Papercourt Sailing Club. There is fishing on the

and in the nearby sandpits. The Concorde Cricket Club, formerly the British Aerospace Cricket Club, is based at Sendholme on Potters Lane. Sendholme was the home of William Hargreaves Leese, who played for the

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in the late 19th century.

Military residents and events

Lieutenant-General William Evelyn Colonel of the 29th Foot in the British Army and Member of Parliament for

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(1767–74), a son of Sir

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of Wotton, established his home at Send Grove, Church Lane, and he laid out the grounds. On his death, in 1783, it was bought by Admiral Sir

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(1750–1752), second in command to Rodney in his victory of 1782 over De Grasse. As Rear-Admiral, Drake flew his flag on HMS ''Victory'' from 26 September to 29 December 1780. Flight Lieutenant Robin R Skene, one of the first members of the

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, was buried in the churchyard after crashing in his Blériot monoplane shortly after take-off from

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, Wiltshire, in 1914 on 12 August ''en route'' to Dover and France at the start of the

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. He and mechanic R. Barlow were the first members of the Royal Flying Corps to die on active duty and among the first British casualties of the war.

Flooding

Following flooding in the east of Send Marsh in 2000, when 16 properties were flooded to a depth of 1m, causing £600,000 of damage, a five-month

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(EA) scheme costing £400,000 began in February 2007 to reduce the risk from the

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stream. The stream was diverted in the 1870s for brick-making and could revert to its original course when flooded. Demonstrated by the relatively few properties affected, almost all built-up areas in the parish are not subject to flood risk according to EA data.

Notable residents

* The British guitarist

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spent two years as a pupil at Send's one-time

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(which became St. Bede's Church of England Junior School). *Musician

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lived for several years in Vicarage Lane. *

, former

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guitarist, lived and recorded at Send Barns on Send Barns Lane until 1981. *Elizabeth Macarthur-Onslow (1840–1911), an Australian pastoralist and property manager born in Menangle, New South Wales, died during a visit to England and is buried in Send churchyard. *In 1911 Send Grove was the property of and occupied by the Misses Onslow. *''Woodhill'' was the principal home of the Dowager Countess of Wharncliffe. * Sir Herbert Holt (1856–1941), divided his time between Send Grove and his other home in Montreal's

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. His son, also called Herbert, inherited Send Grove after his death. *

Loelia Lindsay Loelia Mary, Lady Lindsay, formerly Loelia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, (''née'' Ponsonby; 6 February 1902 – 1 November 1993), was a British socialite, needlewoman and magazine editor. Family and first marriage Lindsay was the only ...

(1902–1993), Duchess of Westminster, lived at Send Grove and later at the Old Vicarage in Church Lane. *Former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer

Philip Hammond Philip Hammond, Baron Hammond of Runnymede (born 4 December 1955) is a British politician and life peer who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019 and Foreign Secretary from 2014 to 2016, having previously served as Defence ...

lives in Send Barns. *British entrepreneur, soldier and spy Charles Letts was born in Send. *The children's novelist

Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was ...

lived at Send from 1939 to 1947. *Barrister, Liberal MP and first class cricketer

lived at Send Holme from 1875 until 1914.

References

External links

Send & Ripley History
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