| Wrecclesham | |
|---|---|
 Wrecclesham village sign | |
  Wrecclesham Location within Surrey | |
| Population | 3,079 [1] |
| OS grid reference | SU826449 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Farnham |
| Postcode district | GU10 |
| Dialling code | 01252 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
Wrecclesham is a village on the southern outskirts of the town of Farnham in Surrey, England. Its local government district is the Borough of Waverley.
It was once in the estate of Henry of Westminster and Blois the powerful 13th-century bishop who owned the majority of the fertile portion of the land, in what was then Farnham and soon became the related parishes of Farnham and Frensham in Farnham Hundred. Farnham remains in use as Wrecclesham's post town. Wrecclesham acquired village status in 1840 when its first place of worship was built.
Wrecclesham's historic character is shown by the presence of the Farnham Pottery, one of the best-preserved examples of a working Victorian country pottery in England [2] and is Grade II-listed. It serves as a cafe for locals. Just past Wrecclesham Hill is the hamlet of Holt Pound; what is now the Holt Pound recreation ground was one of the chief cricket grounds in Surrey. It was used as the venue for three first-class matches between 1791 and 1809 as well as for a number of minor matches. [3]
Runwick ( 51°12′18″N0°49′34″W / 51.205°N 0.826°W ) is located across the A31 road, north of Wrecclesham. It is made up of small holdings on the Hampshire-Surrey border. The '-wick' part of the name meant ″hamlet″ and, from the 13th-century, ″farm″, and is still used in the far east of England to mean ″farm″. The ″run″ part of the name relates to an Anglo Saxon England owner, as in Runfold, which is a similar distance from Farnham.
The A325 road passes through Wrecclesham, connecting it to the garrison towns of Bordon in the south and Aldershot in the north. The A31, connecting Farnham to Alton, runs close by the village. [4]
Wrecclesham has one primary school, St. Peter's C of E School on Little Green Lane. [5] The presence of Weydon School in Wrecclesham makes it the major education centre of the area because there are no secondary schools in central Farnham.[ citation needed ]
St Peter's Church is the oldest church in the parish and was consecrated in 1840 by the Bishop of Winchester, Charles Sumner. At the time the population was believed to be around 800 inhabitants. Grace Church is a newer Baptist church, founded in 2013, [6] which meets in St Peter's School.
Wrecclesham recreation ground caters for cricket, football, rugby and tennis clubs. This is where Jonny Wilkinson and Graham Thorpe started careers in their professional sports, as well as many sportsmen of some generations before such as Billy Beldham and Vic Cannings.
Wrecclesham Cricket Club can be linked back to 4 May 1901, where an advert in the Farnham Herald [7] was posted to find players willing to play cricket. The club moved to the recreation ground in Riverdale in the 1930s. Competing in the Farnham and District Cricket league, the club won its first honours in 1934 and 1936. [8]
Wrecclesham joined the I’Anson competition in 1953 and won it in 1956. [8] In 2008, Wrecclesham's 1st XI cricket team were relegated to the Division 4 (of 6) of the I’Anson league. However, in the following 3 seasons, the club earned three consecutive promotions. The Farnham Herald recognised this achievement, publishing with the statement ‘there is no precedent for an established club winning three consecutive promotions as Wrecclesham have done’, praising the teams ‘high team ethic’. [9] The club's crest, made in 2008, is of an owl over a pottery kiln, referencing the Farnham Pottery which was widely known for its 'owl jugs' which were produced up to the 1950s. [10]
Wrecclesham Football Club joined the Surrey County Intermediate League (Western) in 2007 and won its Premier Division in 2011. The club's 1st XI team opted to promotion to the top division of the Aldershot & District Football League where it has a second team who play some divisions below. Wrecclesham Football Club folded at the end of the 2013/14 season. After the folding of Wrecclesham FC, United Football Club of Farnham (UFC Farnham) became the only football club based in Wrecclesham from the 2014/15 season with their first and reserve teams playing in the Guildford & Woking Alliance Football League Divisions Three and Five respectively. In May 2016 it was announced that UFC Farnham would merge with the Wrecclesham Social Club to once again become Wrecclesham FC, continuing the tradition of a club which was founded in 1904.[ citation needed ]
In 2019 Badshot Lea F.C. opened The Operatix Community Ground at Westfield Lane, the site previously used by Farnham Rugby Club. Their first game at the ground was played against Aldershot Town F.C. of the Vanarama National League on 6 July 2019 with an attendance of over 600 people. In 2007, Badshot Lea F.C. were promoted to the Football Association National Non-League Pyramid. They ground-shared at several clubs so that they could meet the FA Ground Compliance requirements, before settling at the old Farnham Rugby Club ground in Wrecclesham. Their men's 1st Xl compete in national competitions such as the FA Cup and FA Vase. Badshot Lea Ladies 1st Xl compete in the Thames Valley Counties Women's Football League Div 1 and the Women's FA Cup, and the youth plays in various league competitions in Surrey and Hampshire.[ citation needed ]
Farnham is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around 36 miles (58 km) southwest of London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, close to the county border with Hampshire. The town is on the north branch of the River Wey, a tributary of the Thames, and is at the western end of the North Downs. The civil parish, which includes the villages of Badshot Lea, Hale and Wrecclesham, covers 14.1 sq mi (37 km2) and had a population of 39,488 in 2011.
Aldershot Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system.
Ashford Town (Middlesex) Football Club are a football club based in Stanwell, Surrey, England. The club are currently members of the Isthmian League South Central Division and play at the Robert Parker Stadium in Short Lane. They are affiliated to both the Middlesex FA and the Surrey FA.
Camberley Town Football Club is a semi-professional football based in Camberley, Surrey, England. They are currently members of the Combined Counties League Premier Division South and play at Krooner Park.
Farnham Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Farnham, Surrey, England. They are currently members of the Isthmian League South Central Division and play at the Memorial Ground.
Westfield Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in the Westfield area of Woking, England. The club is affiliated to the Surrey County Football Association. They are currently members of the Isthmian League South Central Division.
Raynes Park Vale Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Raynes Park in the London Borough of Merton, England. The club is affiliated to the Surrey County Football Association and is a FA Charter Standard Club. They play in the Isthmian League - South Central Division and play their home games at Prince George's Playing Fields, Grand Drive.
Badshot Lea Football Club is a football club based in Wrecclesham, Surrey, England. The club are currently members of the Isthmian League South Central Division and play at Westfield Lane.
Tongham Football Club is a football club based in Tongham, near Farnham, Surrey, England. They play at the Recreation Ground, Poyle Road. Team Age Groups from U10 - Men's 1st, Reserves & Vets teams.
Badshot Lea is a village in Surrey, England, close to Aldershot. Badshot Lea has access in either direction to the A31 and A331 and is connected to railway stations in the nearby towns with regular bus services. The village is part of the Blackwater Valley or Aldershot Urban Area, the thirtieth largest conurbation in the UK. Badshot Lea's boundaries are four bridges—three western railway bridges and Pea Bridge over the uppermost part of the River Blackwater— these inspired a logo for the village and the football team who play in the larger neighbouring village of Ash. The Blackwater separates Badshot Lea from Aldershot to the north; the eastern and western boundaries are short and the southern boundary is the A331.
Hale is a village in Surrey, England or part of Farnham, towards Aldershot excluding the area between the two to the east which is Badshot Lea, and without formal definition in part overlaps Weybourne and Heath End, Surrey. The history of Farnham being a vast town parish in the late medieval age means all three small places overlapping, which are difficult to class as villages, for example Farnham Youth football club is in two possible alternates, or within greater Farnham as its name suggests, and some maps give Lower Hale and Upper Hale but the area between is indistinct and all of the village is quite elevated so this extremely fine distinction unless referring to an extreme end is deprecated. On the side of the Farnham clay and sandstone range. Some housing and roads have views southward towards the Greensand Ridge from Hindhead to Ewhurst. The electoral ward Farnham Upper Hale has a population of 4,241. Often the eastern built-up (low-rise) area, Weybourne is considered separately but both localities share all amenities and form a neatly buffered settlement.
Rowledge is a village in England on the Surrey–Hampshire border, centred south of the A31 and Farnham. Neighbouring villages include Wrecclesham, Spreakley and Frensham. To the south west of the village is the Alice Holt Forest; to the west is Birdworld. It is in the Waverley Ward of Farnham, Wrecclesham and Rowledge.
Weybourne is a small village in Surrey, England. It lies on the outskirts of Farnham, Surrey and borders onto Aldershot, Hampshire.
Holt Pound is a hamlet on the A325 road and two side roads and forms a slight projection of the county borders into Surrey in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is between Bordon several miles south and Farnham, which is beyond a strip of its nearest village, Rowledge, which remains its ecclesiastical parish in Surrey and Wrecclesham which touches the town. The village is between the Alice Holt Forest and fields known jointly as Old Kiln Farm and the Holt Pound Enclosure.
The 2011–12 Combined Counties Football League season was the 34th in the history of the Combined Counties Football League, a football competition in England.
The 2012–13 Combined Counties Football League season was the 35th in the history of the Combined Counties Football League, a football competition in England.
Harry Edward Cooksley is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Farnham Town.
The 2018–19 Combined Counties Football League season was the 41st in the history of the Combined Counties Football League, a football competition in England.
Upper Hale Cemetery is the burial ground for the district of Hale in Farnham in Surrey.
The 2022-23 season was the 31st season in the existence of Aldershot Town Football Club and the club's ninth consecutive season in the Vanarama National League. In addition to the league, they also competed in the FA Cup and the FA Trophy.
