List of settlements and parishes in Waverley

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Civil parishes in Waverley are depicted and alphabetically are:

Civil ParishVillages with a separate article from their parish (not localities) [n 1] [n 2]
Alfold
Bramley
Busbridge
Chiddingfold
Churt
Cranleigh
Dockenfield
Dunsfold
Elstead
Ewhurst
Farnham [n 3] Badshot Lea, Wrecclesham, Rowledge and Hale
Frensham
Godalming Farncombe
Hambledon
Hascombe
Haslemere Hindhead
Peper Harow
Thursley
Tilford
Witley Milford, that has a much larger population than Witley in Witley [1]
Wonersh

Notes and references

Notes
  1. Apart from Witley, each civil parish is named after the largest settlement in its area.
  2. Per Wikipedia Guidelines of How to Write About UK Settlements WP:UKTOWNS now expanded to WP:UKVILLAGES, Villages (with a church) and large, distinct and to an extent self-sufficient settlements are worthy of their own article as opposed to sections with the potential of making "Good or Featured Articles"; these so-called "villages" and are shown in the right hand column of the table.
  3. Settlements in bold are towns
References

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