Guildford's Hidden History

Numerous pictorial histories of Guildford have been published in the past, and so too have many local histories on a wide variety of subjects. But Guildford's town centre and the surrounding landscape still hold many secrets. Guildford's Hidden History reveals some of the less familiar aspects of the town's past. The book covers the High Street and a hidden air raid shelter, pagan hill tops, dragons and the secrets of St Martha's, the medieval royal deer park, its manor house and landscape, the hidden valley of Tyting and a lost house, secret war-time operations and a prisoner-of-war camp, memories of the Templars and the horse racing at Merrow.