The King's Arms Royal Hotel, Godalming High Street

Introduction

The photograph on this page of The King's Arms Royal Hotel, Godalming High Street by Stefan Czapski as part of the Geograph project.

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The King's Arms Royal Hotel, Godalming High Street

Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 1 Sep 2016

Impressively large, in what is still quite a small town. But Godalming sat astride the old Portsmouth Road, and the King's Arms must have been a major coaching inn - even bigger than Image Part of the carriage arch can be seen at the left-hand margin of the photo. (Again, compare http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3405975 ). The Surrey volume of Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England' gives a date for the King's Arms of 1753.

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