Printer friendlyFarnham Royal & Farnham Common
Farnham Royal extends along the Slough to Beaconsfield road. At the Norman conquest the Manor was given to Bertram de Verdon on condition that he provided a glove for the King and supported his right arm at the Coronation. The Parish’s ‘Royal’ title came later and seems first to have been used in 1473 when the Manor came into the possession of the Countess of Shrewsbury, a great-great-granddaughter of Edward III. In 1752 the manorial rights came into the hands of the Godolphin family and thence to the Duke of Leeds.
The church is close to Stoke Park. Rebuilt in the 19th century (except for the medieval chancel), the church has lost much of its interest. However, it did gain, as some degree of compensation, some good Victorian stone carving and stained windows by Kempe and William Morris.
At the north end of Farnham Royal is Farnham Common on the edge of extensive heathland and bounded on the north-west by the famed beauty spot of Burnham Beeches.
Farnham Common has its own shopping centre, public library, car park, village and church halls and a church built in 1907 in the Gothic Revival style.
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