Godalming

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Godalming is an ancient English market town sitting on the River Wey, in Surrey, England.

Godalming has existed since Saxon times. Was a wool manufacturing and trading center in medieval times, followed by a substantial pioneering phase in tanning, leatherworking and related industries.

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  • Charterhouse, famed private boarding school. Pupils have included:
Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the scout movement), William Beveridge (economist and social reformer), Anthony Caro (sculptor), David Dimbleby (TV presenter)' Peter Gabriel (rock musician, Genesis), Robert Graves (poet), Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Prime Minister), William Makepeace Thackeray (novelist),
Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer), John Wesley (founder of the Methodist church)

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