Saint Nicholas Churchyard
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Saint Nicholas Churchyard

Godstone, Tandridge District, Surrey, England

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    Godstone, Tandridge District, Surrey England
    Coordinates: 51.24657, -0.05677
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The Church of Saint Nicholas at ChurchLane, Godstone, RH9 8BW is in Church Town. Although Church Lane was part of themain route from London to the south coast after the Roman road sank, the laneis very narrow and often extremely congested, whereas around the green there areseveral free car parks and some on-street parking. From the village green to thelytchgate at St. Nicholas is less than half a mile on level ground by a footpathon the south side of the partly 16th century White Hart public house/restaurantand the Bay Pond nature reserve. On the site of a Norman church,building from the 13th and 14th centuries has been extensivelyextended, modified and restored since. In particular in the early 1870s to Gothicdesigns by Sir George Gilbert Scott RA, who also designed the Tudor-style almshouses, St Mary's Homes, next to St. Nicholas. To mark the start of the currentmillennium a colourful window was added. The churchyard covers about four acresand includes the graves of John Trenchman, pirate and smuggler, and Edmund SeyfantTaylor ('Walker Miles'). Inside the church are memorials to members of theEvelyn and Macleay families.
The Church of Saint Nicholas at ChurchLane, Godstone, RH9 8BW is in Church Town. Although Church Lane was part of themain route from London to the south coast after the Roman road sank, the laneis very narrow and often extremely congested, whereas around the green there areseveral free car parks and some on-street parking. From the village green to thelytchgate at St. Nicholas is less than half a mile on level ground by a footpathon the south side of the partly 16th century White Hart public house/restaurantand the Bay Pond nature reserve. On the site of a Norman church,building from the 13th and 14th centuries has been extensivelyextended, modified and restored since. In particular in the early 1870s to Gothicdesigns by Sir George Gilbert Scott RA, who also designed the Tudor-style almshouses, St Mary's Homes, next to St. Nicholas. To mark the start of the currentmillennium a colourful window was added. The churchyard covers about four acresand includes the graves of John Trenchman, pirate and smuggler, and Edmund SeyfantTaylor ('Walker Miles'). Inside the church are memorials to members of theEvelyn and Macleay families.

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