Thursday doors – 10 July 2025 – Doors of Godalming

Doors 315 – Doors of Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

It sounds like an interesting place, Godalming, but I had never visited until earlier this year, and as it turns out, it is a lovely, small, Surrey town. I was there with work for a partnership workshop I was leading, preparing for a celebration event for England’s newest National Nature Reserve, called Wealden Heaths. Sadly I never got to go to the celebration event itself, but I am told it was a perfect day, and we generated plenty of local and national coverage. Job done.

The town is very much centred around a single main street, called High Street, which is home to a wonderful array of timber-framed shops and houses in a Surrey style, quite different to those I have encountered in other parts of the country. This first set of doors are found on the route from the station to the High Street. I hope you enjoy this first of three or four collections from Godalming.

Station building and black door, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Station building and black door, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

 

Ghost door on the station building, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Ghost door on the station building, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

 

Surrey Place (not so) luxury office suites, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Surrey Place (not so) luxury office suites, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

 

Front door to Surrey Place (not so) luxury office suites, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Front door to Surrey Place (not so) luxury office suites, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

 

Timber framed house and door, Mill Lane, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Timber framed house and door, Mill Lane, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

 

Small cottage and gabled front door, Mill Lane, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Small cottage and gabled front door, Mill Lane, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

 

Beautiful surrey timber framed cottage and front door, Mill Lane, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
Beautiful surrey timber framed cottage and front door, Mill Lane, Godalming, Surrey, March 2025

More to come from this rather pretty town next time, and perhaps for the next couple of times after that. Meanwhile, I am basking in the brilliant and unusually wonderful summer sunshine we are having in Bristol, with little sign of rain for more than a week.

That’s it for another week. I prepared this post in advance, and I am publishing it very early (UK time) on Thursday, because when I did this by mistake a few weeks ago, I had far more views than I would normally expect. I am testing the idea once again, but this time deliberately, to see if that was an anomaly or a real effect.

If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.

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