Goldsworth Park

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Goldsworth (East and West)
Statistics
Population:	12,000 approx
Ordnance Survey
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Administration
District:	Woking
Shire county:	Surrey
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Surrey
Historic county:	Surrey
Services
Police force:	Surrey Police
Fire and rescue:	{{{Fire}}}
Ambulance:	South East Coast
Post office and telephone
Post town:	WOKING
Postal district:	GU21
Dialling code:	01483
Politics
UK Parliament:	Woking
European Parliament:	South East England

Goldsworth Park is a large housing estate to the north-west of Woking in Surrey, England. It was named after the nearby Goldsworth area which was a large 'tithing' of Woking Parish. The tithing included most of the north west of Woking, such as Brookwood, Knaphill and St. John's. It is bordered by villages such as St. John's, Knaphill and Horsell. At one time, it was said to be the largest such estate in Europe^{[citation needed]}. Many of its residents commute into London and Heathrow airport.

[edit] Facilities

Some of the facilities and infrastructures include: shops, mobile library, community hall, children's play centre, pub, health centre, St. Andrew's Church, youth centre, supermarket, garage, lake, recreation grounds, field hockey pitch, football pitch, cricket pitch, offices, trading estate, chemist, hairdressers, Scout and Guide hall, canal, recycling facilities, children's playgrounds, basketball court, skateboard area and skateboard ramp.

[edit] History

Goldsworth's history starts in 1229. The area covered by Goldsworth West and East wards of Woking Council is the main focus of this section. The area was mainly in the parish of Woking (Woking Hundred and Goldsworth/Goldings tithing), but the north-east of Goldsworth Park was in Horsell parish (Godley Hundred and Sythwood/Sithwood tithing). Also a small sub-manor in Goldsworth tithing is recorded as 'Hollands' and was located around the area known now as Harelands.

1229	The name Goldsworth is first recorded. Derived possibly from 'la Goldhord' that may record a find of gold coins. Goldsworth then was a few houses in the area where Goldsworth Road is now, but also gave it's name to the tithing of Goldsworth (sometimes called Goldings) which covers most of the north-west of Woking Parish.
1500	Long Lane Cottage which is now in Clifton Way, Goldsworth Park and Langmans which is now in Langmans Lane, Goldsworth are both thought to have been built in this century (16th Century). They are now Grade II Listed buildings and are Timber framed.
1760	James Turner bought from the Earl of Onslow, owner of Woking Manor, some land in the "Tithing of Goldings".
1790	James Turner on his land in the "Tithing of Goldings" started a nursery south of the canal near Langmans in 1790 and he later passed it on to John Slyfield. He then later passed it to a member of the Jackman family, who in the early 1800s passed it onto Robert Donald and it then became known as Goldsworth Nursery. Goldsworth (Langmans) Bridge was built around this year. It is a brick bridge over the Basingstoke Canal and is now listed as a National Scheduled Ancient Monument.
1791	Canal from the Wey Navigation to Basingstoke opened as far as Horsell.
1792	Basingstoke Canal opened as far as Pirbright.
1830	In Woking Parish there is civil unrest.
1834	Guildford (affecting Woking parish) and Chertsey (affecting Horsell parish) Poor Law Unions formed. Parishes rates on average drop due to economies of scale.
1836	Goldsworth Road was built.
1838	London and Southampton Company railway opened as far as Winchfield. Woking Common Station opened (now called Woking Station).
1849	Necropolis (Cemetery) first proposed for Woking Parish by the Board of Health.
1851	Surrey Constabulary begins policing rural Surrey.
1856	First building in the 'New Woking', the Albion Hotel is built. Robert Donald passes Goldsworth Nursery on to a partnership consisting of William Chandler, Charles Waterer and George Jackman.
1864	Guildford (affecting Woking parish) and Chertsey (affecting Horsell parish) Highway Districts formed.
1872	Guildford (affecting Woking parish) and Chertsey (affecting Horsell parish) Rural Sanitary Authorities formed.
1874	Woking School Board formed.
1877	Partnership sells Goldsworth Nursery to Walter Charles Slocock who, in time, expands the nursery by buying land to the north.
1879	Woking Crematorium built.
1884	First cremation in the UK is performed at St. Johns, Woking Crematorium.
1887	Woking Police Station opens.
1889	Woking Football Club is formed. Local Government reorganised. County Council's and County Boroughs formed. Surrey County Council formed and is under Conservative Control
1890	Woking gets Electricity.
1892	Woking gets Gas.
1894	Woking Local Board formed, first met in Goldsworth Hall with 18 councillors representing these wards, Knaphill, St Johns, Mayford, Sutton, Brookwood, Old Woking, Maybury and Central. 'Woking News' newspaper first published from offices in Chertsey Road, each copy cost 1 penny.
1895	Woking Urban District Council, replacing the Local Board (affecting Woking parish) and Chertsey Rural District Council (affecting Horsell parish) formed. Horsell Parish Council is formed. Woking Fire Brigade is formed. Electric Street lighting in Woking. 'Woking Mail' newspaper first published from offices in Goldsworth Road, each copy cost 1/2 penny. It later merges with 'Woking News' to become the 'Woking News and Mail'.
1899	Woking gets sewerage system. Victoria Hospital opens.
1900	The original Woking Open Air Swimming Pool is opened around this time.
1902	Gas Street lighting replaces Electric in Woking. Guildford and District Motor Services starts a bus service in the Guildford and Woking area. Woking and Bagshot Light Railway proposed that would have run over what is now Goldsworth *Park on the Woking side of the Woking/Horsell parish boundary. By 1910 the project died out.
1907	Horsell merges into the Woking Urban District Council. Now all of the future Goldsworth Park area was in Woking.
1909	Horsell gets sewerage system.
1920	First Woking council house. In the 1920s-1930s, on what was later to become the Goldsworth Park playing fields, thousands of flint tools are found. Left probably by a small group of people, settled in the valley of Parley Brook (though there may be a small chance that the actual original location may have been somewhere else, if they had been moved by glacial ice).
1924	'Woking Offers' free paper advertising local traders starts. Waterer's Park was left to Woking U.D.C. by Mr Anthony Waterer of Knaphill Nursery. Knaphill Football Club started in 1924 playing there.
1929	Woking Library opens.
1931	Street lighting back to Electric from Gas in Woking.
1933	'Woking Outlook' renamed 'Woking Review', which is believed to be the oldest free newspaper in Britain.
1935	The second Woking Open Air Swimming Pool is opened. Woking Swimming Club is formed.
1939	Second World War starts for the UK, as it declares war on Germany. Joan Boschiers War Memories in Goldsworth and Woking. see this website A Child's War Memories in Goldsworth and Woking. see this website Woking Fire Brigade placed under the wartime control of Surrey County Council. Southern Railway placed under Government control due to the war.
1942	Reigate, Guildford and Surrey Constabularies all join the Surrey Joint Police Force.
1945	V2 rockets launched by Germany, one lands on Woking.
1947	Professor C J Wrigley was born in 1947. He later attended Goldsworth School. Surrey Fire Brigade formed. Southern Railway becomes part of British Railways. Kenwood started in Goldsworth Road area. Navigation on the Brookwood Canal stops.
1953	Surrey Plan foresaw a Woking Urban District population of about 67,000 in the mid-1970s, but the 1961 Census figures exceeded that amount.
1954	Woking Squash Club is formed.
1962	Kenwood moves from Woking.
1963	The Winter of 1962-1963 is the coldest on record since 1740. The Rolling Stones play a concert at the 'Atalanta' Ballroom in Woking.
1965	Revised Plan foresaw a population of 97,000 by 1981 and proposed building 3 new housing schemes, one of which was known as 'Slococks', to be built on nurserylands owned by the Slococks.
1966	Surrey and Hampshire Canal Society formed to restore the Brookwood Canal.
1967	Master Plan decided that the Land Commission should buy the land and drain and service the site. Then sell it to developers.
1968	Woking Archery Club is formed.
1970	Land Commission abolished by the Conservative Government. New Ideal Homes and Woking Borough Council agree to a partnership to build 'Slococks'. Houses in the Mead Court area were built and therefore are not part of Goldsworth Park, they were a separate development.
1971	Wolsey Place Shopping Centre opens. About this time Centre Halls, Centre Pool and Woking Centre Library opened.
1973	Plan to build approved by the Government. Project first called 'Goldsworth Park'. Work started in Goldsworth Vale (phase one was Wilders Close e.t.c.), Planned to build approx. 4,500 homes for approx. 15,000 residents. It also planned for a lake, sports facilities, golf course, shops, swimming-pool, library, industrial estate, youth centres, pubs, churches, fire station and social facilities. The new covered Woking Swimming Pool is opened (called the Centre Pool), near to where Toy's R Us and Peacocks Corner are now on the A320.
1974	Woking Borough Council is formed, replacing the Urban District Council and is under Conservative Control. First home completed and first buyer moves in to Goldsworth Park!
1976	British American Tobacco move into Export House Tower.
1977	Sythwood School first building opens. Bishopswood houses first built. Goldsworth Park Residents Association Allotments Society formed (now called the Goldsworth Park Allotments Society). The first 70 plots were in Westfield Avenue. This had been the local household refuse tip, which had been closed for more than 50 years. Around this time Marjorie Richardson (the former 46th Woking Urban District Council Chairman for 1962-1963) opens a centre in Woking for retired people.
1978	Approx 1,000 homes completed. First organising of Goldsworth Park Scout and Guides, started at local schools.
1979	Beaufort School first building (Oak) completed. Henry VII (7th) was King of England 1485-1509. His mother Lady Margaret Beaufort lived at Woking Palace and Beaufort School is named after her. York Road doctor's practise opens a second premises on Goldsworth Park.
1981	first Vicar of St Andrews Church Goldsworth Park from 1981 to 1993.
1982	Shops built. Mobile Library started? First with trailers and now with a proper mobile library.
1983	Bitterne Drive houses first built.
1986	Goldsworth Park Health Centre opens.
1988	Goldwater Lodge and St Andrew's Church built. Approx 3,000 homes completed.
1989	The second Woking Covered Swimming Pool is opened at Pool in the Park.
1990	Beaufort School since the amalgamation of the two school's back in the early 1990s. During the 1990s the last homes were built on Goldsworth Park
1991	Fields Car Centre moves to Goldsworth Road. Brookwood Canal formally reopened along its whole length following renovation by volunteers. Trident Garages open a branch in Goldsworth Road.
1992	Peacocks Shopping Centre, Library, Town Gate, Cinema and New Victoria Theatre and the Leisure Lagoon at Pool in the Park opened. Centre Halls, Centre Pool and Woking Centre Library had been demolished to make room for them.
1993	Surrey County Council switches from Conservative to No Overall Control. Rosie Sharpley from Goldsworth is the 20th Woking Mayor for 1993-1994.
1994	Goldsworth School moves location to Bridge Barn Lane from Kingsway. Woking's STD telephone code's prefix is changed from '0' to '01' (i.e. 0483 to 01483 in full) along with most areacodes in the UK on Phoneday. Between 1989 and 1994 it had changed from 04862 to 0483
1995	Goldsworth Park Allotments Society had to move to a new 90-plot site at Brookwood. The soil at the old site was deemed to be unsafe.
1996	The Planets Entertainment complex is completed.
1998	Doctor joins the York Road practise.
1999	Woking Borough Council Wards changed. Goldsworth Park Ward is split into 2 wards Goldsworth West and East. Goldsworth East gained extra areas around Goldsworth Road and Woking Town Centre. Rosie Sharpley from Goldsworth is the Woking representative to the South East Region Assembly.
2000	Elections for the new wards in Woking Borough Council. Goldsworth Care is to Launch. Ian Eastwood from Goldsworth is the 27th Woking Mayor for 2000-2001. Two Goldsworth East Councillors Bryan Cross and Rosie Sharpley become members of the new Woking council's executive committee.
2001	C+A closes its Swiftflow distribution depot on Goldsworth Park Trading Estate. Telewest move into Export House Tower. Trident Garages sells its branch in Goldsworth Road to Majestic Wine. Westgate moves to Brockhill.
2002	Arriva's Woking (Goldsworth Park Trading Estate) Bus Garage closes. Sythwood School Mosaic and Stained Glass Window. Elections for some WBC wards. Goldsworth West 22% of 3816 voters= Landon 485 LD (Elected) Lawrence 266 CON Wand 83 LAB. Goldsworth East 29.7% of 5418 voters= Bellord 488 CON Cross 797 LD (Elected) Ford 316 LAB. Goldsworth Alive starts, a new website for our area. Transplant Patient takes Drug Fight to Europe. Sythwood School Braille Signs. Local Fire Hero saves two toddlers lives! Sam wins a Judo Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games! Joshua's miraculous recovery. Beresford's Fundraiser. Knightswood Jubilee Party. Brockhill Jubilee Party. Plane in the Parlour. Beaufort Summer Fair. Ice on the Lake Danger!.
2003	Delay to Midas Development. A new bigger warehouse is built on the site of the old C+A warehouse in Kestrel Way. Woking Hockey Club play at Goldsworth Park. Elections for some WBC wards. Goldsworth East 25.8% of 5426 voters= Yates 457 (CON) Smith 727 (LD - Elected) Martin 210 (LAB). Beaufort Fun Day. Sythwood Horse Riding Trip. Goldsworth School Diversity Day. Party in the Park. Waitrose Extension Plans. Beaufort Pupils Road Safety Advice. Lockfield Drive 30 MPH Speed Limit to be moved. Tess gets a Silver Rosette. Margaret is the one millionth Bustler Bus Passenger. New Mobile Library. Midas Office Development in Goldsworth Road. Vera is 105. Wacky Wednesdays at Sythwood. Swan flies into Beaufort. Bus Route 28 Funding Withdrawal. Goldsworth School Victorian Day. Brockhill Recognised Drop In Centre at the Lakeview Estate Largest UK IT Outsourcing Deal won by a Goldsworth based Company
2004	Battle of the bins Woking West Election Wheeled Bins arrive Beaufort Science Guides and scouts get grant Salvation Army Move Planned to Sythwood Sam also makes it into the Woking Hall of Fame! Midas gets a tenant Goldsworth Park's Train Driver A NEW Comic Strip about Goldsworth Park Lake called LAKESIDE Canal Festival WELL DONE TO OUR LOCAL RUNNER MATT IN THE LONDON MARATHON! Harelands Against Masts. Sythwood School's New Website! Hockey 100 Years Celebrations on June 12th! Beaufort School's Summer Fair on Saturday 10th July 12-3pm! Bin Trial goes on. Goldsworth School Walking Bus. Goldsworth School Golden Boot. Maggots and Flies in Wheelie Bins, do you have this problem? Lockfield Drive and Oakfield Streetlight Problems! Calvary Church's new website! Goldsworth Park Half Pipe for Sk8ters. Goldsworth Park Rangers Website. New Jobs at Morrisons.
2005	Goldsworth School Summer Fayre. Goldsworth Park Ranger Football Tournament. Mast worries for parents. Drive off from Morrisons Garage. Lakeview work starts. New Bins for Goldsworth East in September. Bill and Betty's 65th! Funfair incident.

[edit] External links

• Goldsworth Park Community Association
• Goldsworth Park History Links