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Shamley Green is a small
villageA village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in...
in the county of
SurreySurrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Neighbouring villages include
WonershWonersh is a small Surrey village in England. Wonersh is about 3 miles SSE of Guildford on the B2128 road from Guildford, Shalford to Cranleigh...
,
ChilworthChilworth is a village in Surrey, England, southeast of Guildford. Chilworth has about 2000 residents , two churches , two schools , a pub and a railway station. The village nestles below the North Downs, overlooked by St. Martha's Hill and St. Martha's Church...
,
FarncombeFarncombe is a village in Surrey, England. It is administratively part of Godalming, coming under the remit of and the Borough of Waverley.Farncombe is an ancient site of settlement, archaeological finds from the Bronze age have been found in Northbourne Estate. Evidence for a Roman Villa has...
and
BramleyBramley is a village and civil parish about three miles south of Guildford in the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, south east England. With a population of c.3,300 most of the parish lies in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of iron age settlement in the area,...
. Nearby railway stations include
Chilworth railway stationChilworth railway station serves the village of Chilworth in Surrey, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by First Great Western. It is situated on the North Downs Line.-Services:...
(2.3 miles) and
Farncombe railway stationFarncombe railway station opened in 1897 as a minor stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line between Guildford and Godalming. It is said to have been built at the instigation of General Sir Frederick Marshall, a director of the London and South Western Railway Company, who lived nearby at Broadwater...
(3.8 miles).
It is the birthplace and childhood home of billionaire Sir
Richard BransonSir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English industrialist, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student. He then set up an audio record mail-order business in 1970...
of Virgin Atlantic fame.
The village lent its name to
Alfred HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
's company which produced the movie
PsychoPsycho is an American suspense/horror movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein....
for Shamley Productions.
Artist
Tony HartNorman Antony "Tony" Hart was an English artist and children's television presenter.-Early life:Hart was interested in drawing from an early age...
lived in the village for over forty years until his death.
During World War II, it hosted the Beatrix Potter Primary School, Earlsfield, London SW18
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