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Witley, England
Witley is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Waverley (borough), Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England centred south west of the town of Godalming and southwest of Guildford. The land is a mixture of rural (ranging from woodland protected by the Surrey Hills AONB including a small part of the forested Greensand Ridge to cultivated fields) contrasting with elements more closely resembling a suburban satellite village. As a civil parish it is unusual in that it includes the small town of Milford, Surrey, Milford in the north. Occupying its hills in the south-west are Sandhills, Surrey, Sandhills and Brook, Surrey, Brook. Witley Common is a wide expanse of land, owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust, crossed by the A3 road (Great Britain), A3 road. The village is served by two stations on the Portsmouth Direct Line: Witley railway station, Witley station, to the south in nearby Wormley, Surrey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
