Pirbright

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Pirbright






Statistics
Population:	1,750
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	[1]
Administration
District:	Guildford
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:	Lightwater
Postal district:	GU24
Dialling code:	01483
Politics
UK Parliament:	Woking
European Parliament:	South East England

Pirbright is a village in Surrey, England. Neighbouring villages include Worplesdon, Deepcut, Brookwood and Normandy.

Pirbright Parish has an area of some 4711 acres falling into two distinct communities with the military area to the north of the railway and the village to the south.

Excluding the military area, the village has a population of approx.1750 with 1,200 living near the green and the remainder in three outlying settlements, each about a mile from the centre. The village is almost entirely surrounded by heathland, much of it owned and used by the MOD.^[1]

Its churchyard contains the grave of Henry Morton Stanley.

The Pirbright Laboratory is a government research establishment that carries out research on diseases of farm animals. It is part of the Institute for Animal Health, which is one of the research institutes supported by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Pirbright Laboratory is an international reference laboratory for the diagnosis of diseases in an emergency, and its research includes work on foot and mouth disease and swine vesicular disease.

Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Pirige-fyrhþ = "sparse woodland where peartrees grow".

There is an army training barracks at Pirbright: see Structure of the British Army Training.