IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Penny Drive, GUILDFORD, GU3 3DJ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Penny Drive, GU3 3DJ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (33 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Details
Distance
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The Royal Oak, Wood Street Village
Large pub on Pound Hill, the hilltop in the long street village.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 6 Feb 2011
0.07 miles
2
The Royal Oak (1), 89 Oak Hill, Wood Street Village near Guildford
A large public house, which judging by appearance dates from the 20th century, and was probably built around the same time as the nearby houses. It is located on the corner of Oak Hill and Pound Hill.
The pub's main frontage (seen here) is facing Oak Hill and is in OS square SU9951, so this seemed the most appropriate square to select. However most of the building is in the adjacent square SU9550.
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 25 May 2012
0.08 miles
4
The Royal Oak (2) - sign, 89 Oak Hill, Wood Street Village near Guildford
The rather faded sign of the Royal Oak, a free house. The sign is rather unusual in that the tree is actually a cut out, so that the sky around it is not painted, but is what you see through the surrounding frame.
A lot of pubs in England are named the Royal Oak, to celebrate the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. The significance of the oak being that, before the restoration, the future King Charles II spent most of one day, hiding in an oak tree from Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops. The King's birthday of May 29th was still celebrated by many people up to the end of the 19th century. So pubs continued to be given the name of Royal Oak, even when they were opened a hundred or two hundred years later. Today, for better or worse, the day has lost its significance, probably because the 29th May ceased to be a public holiday some time in the 1850's. This particular pub seems to date from the 20th century. Perhaps it was built to replace an earlier pub of the same name, a not uncommon practice.
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 25 May 2012
0.09 miles
5
Oak Hill
The main street in Wood Street Village, looking eastwards from the Royal Oak.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 3 Nov 2007
0.09 miles
6
Bus stop between the church and public house in Wood Street
Image: © Shazz
Taken: 30 Jan 2014
0.10 miles
8
Wood Street Post Office
A view from 2012 is at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2971882.
Image: © Shazz
Taken: 30 Jan 2014
0.10 miles
9
St. Alban's Church - sign & notice board, 96 Oak Hill, Wood Street Village near Guildford
See:- Image
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 25 May 2012
0.11 miles
10
Flats on Oak Hill, Wood Street Village
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 7 Sep 2014
0.11 miles