Farnham: Lower Church Lane

Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 15 Jun 2017

Farnham is well-known for its substantial Georgian houses and for Georgian thoroughfares such as Castle Street and West Street. But equally characteristic of the town are passageways, narrow lanes, and the yards which stretch back from e.g. West Street and Downing Street. My impression, walking round, was that some of these minor spaces must be survivals from the pre-Georgian plan of the town. In that respect I was reminded of Stamford, Lincolnshire. Lower Church Lane is a street of old terraced cottages close to St Andrew's church. The street surface is cobbled, with traces of a drain which once ran along the middle. I've described the surface as 'cobbled' only for want of a better word. The material used looks similar to the chunks of metallic (iron-rich) sandstone to be found in abundance on Surrey heaths (such as Chobham, Thursley and Witley commons). The photo was taken from the churchyard - one of those churchyards where the surface rises several feet above the surrounding streets.

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