Mytchett
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| Mytchett | |
  Mytchett shown within Surrey |
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| Population | <6,000 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | Surrey Heath |
| Shire county | Surrey |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Camberley |
| Postcode district | GU16 |
| Dialling code | 01252 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Surrey Heath |
| List of places: UK • England • Surrey | |
Mytchett is a small village in Surrey approximately 35 miles south west of London.
The village is approximately 2 miles long, but is constrained to the north by the South Western Main Line and to the east by the Basingstoke Canal and west by the River Blackwater, meaning the village is only around 3/4 of a mile wide. The census area Mytchett and Deepcut has a population of 6,179.[1]
Traditionally the village centre is at Mytchett Crossroads where a community centre was erected in the late 1980s. The village shops are 1/2 mile north of this point along the main road towards Frimley Green and Frimley. There used to also be a Post Office. However this was recently closed, and is now part of the Best One chain, although the Post Office has now moved to the nearby Frimley Green.
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[edit] Transport
Although Mytchett has good road links to London and the South, buses are limited to hourly services to Farnborough, Aldershot and Camberley.
Despite having a railway line running through the village, Mytchett is not well served by rail. While Ash Vale station is within walking distance from the village with a half-hourly service to London Waterloo, The other nearest railway stations to Mytchett are North Camp and Farnborough North on the North Downs Line, with services to Reading and Guildford but no useful links to London. Farnborough (Main) on the South Western Main Line with services to Basingstoke and London Waterloo is several miles from the village.
This lack of public transport facilities is a local issue, especially among the less affluent residents in the social housing estates in the village. The most regular bus is the number 3, which runs from Camberley to Aldershot every half an hour.
[edit] Rudolf Hess
On May 20, 1941, Rudolf Hess was transported from the Tower of London to Camp Z which was at Mytchett Place. This had been specially set up for his arrival with heavy security and bugging devices. Hess spent 13 months at Camp Z, which was the scene for one of his failed suicide attempts; he had thrown himself off a balcony on June 15, 1941.
The June 1942 move from Mytchett Place was to become notable following the release of MI5 files in 1999. Previously unfounded rumours had claimed that Hess was moved because intelligence reports indicated that a Polish group was planning to break into the Camp Z, kidnap Hess, and beat or kill him by way of revenge for Nazi atrocities in Poland. The MI5 files included a reference to reports of a gun battle between Polish soldiers and guards at Mytchett, although no precise details were given, so the link is not conclusive.[2]
