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Wood Street Village is a clustered and linear village in Surrey, England with a village green, buffered by Metropolitan Green Belt on all sides. It is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Guildford and is part of the civil parish of Worplesdon (where the 2011 Census population was included) ,as well as continuing to be served semi-dependently as a chapelry of the Church of England. Its amenities include an infant school, post office and public houses. The Normandy Youth Center is among the amenities serving the children of Wood Street Village.
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Map of Wood Street Village, Guildford, UK
History
The history of this area is described in histories of the parish of Worplesdon, of which Wood Street Village is a part, however has developed similar amenities of its own (save for a community halls, paths and recreational amenities maintenance decision making body, its civil parish council).·
There are a large minority of pre-20th century houses in the village; Wood Street Village has farmhouses which date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Littlefield Manor, in the mid-category of architectural listing Grade II* joins with neighbouring Whipley Manor as one of two similarly sized farms, but which were once larger manors, the history of which is well documented by its many returns such as the Feet of Fines kept by the central government. Historically these records were kept at the Palace of Westminster but today are held at the National Archives (UK) and their contents are summarised in such works as the Victoria County History.
Wood Street School opened in 1878 and the Victorian part still stands.
Geography
The village is nucleated in layout but with a linear part to the north-west and east and more than half of its land is cultivated fields woodland, in the south or along the banks of its two main brooks, which flow north. Guildford is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) east.
Elevations range from 67m in the north and west to 38m Above Ordnance Datum (sea level) in the far north toward the discharge to brooks along east side of the area, including at Clasford Common and Clasford Bridge in the north-west corner. The soil is rich in humus with a mixed subsoil of clay and loamy soil interspersed with small amounts of sandier soil in uninhabited highest patches.
Amenities
The village green features the only surviving maypole in Surrey and hosts late spring and summer fairs.
Wood Street Village's amenities include a church, infant school, auto repair garage, post office and public houses. The rural Normandy Youth Center has a number of current children of the village who attend its meetings or use its facilities.
The current St Albans large chapel was completed in 1967.
Nearby main sports teams are Normandy and Normandy Reserves F.C. who play in the Aldershot & District Football League.