IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
High Street, GODALMING, GU7 1EB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to High Street, GU7 1EB 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.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (746 Images Found)
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Kings Arms, Godalming
The impressive brick Kings Arms Royal Hotel in High Street has a history of catering for London - Portsmouth coaching traffic. The current building was built in 1753 - earlier it hosted the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great (1698).
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 16 Dec 2007
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Kings Arms Hotel
Historic hotel on Godalming's High Street - Peter the Great stayed here in 1698. The flag flying is in commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
http://www.godalming-tc.gov.uk/
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 8 Jul 2012
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The King's Arms Royal Hotel, Godalming High Street
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.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 1 Sep 2016
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Inn sign: The King's Arms, Godalming
An old, faded sign - unrepainted, I suppose, as evidence of the antiquity of the establishment.
But whose arms are they? The arms of England (the lions) are quartered with the Fleur-de-Lys, so the monarch in question was laying claim to France, too - which, these days, might seem to be going a bit too far . . .
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 1 Sep 2016
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Godalming - King Charles I
The Kings Arms Hotel proudly displays a copy of the famous three-headed 1635-36 painting "Charles I in Three Positions", also known as the "Triple Portrait of Charles I", by the Flemish artist Sir Anthony van Dyck.
www.kingsarmsandroyal.co.uk
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 31 May 2024
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Kings Arms Coachway
Arched pend from Godalming's High Street to the rear of the Kings Arms Hotel. Godalming once had many inns serving London - Portsmouth coaching traffic.
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 16 Dec 2007
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Godalming High Street: celebratory plaque at a bus stop
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 28 Oct 2021
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