Talking Stones - A Quiet Surrey Churchyard with Welsh Stories to Tell
A Quiet Surrey Churchyard with Welsh Stories to Tell Shamley Green Introduction to Shamley Green Shamley Green is a historic Surrey village in the civil parish of Wonersh , lying about five miles south of Guildford and set within the Surrey Hills National Landscape . The village is centred around its broad cricket green , which has served as the heart of local life for more than a century, and is surrounded by timber‑framed houses , small farms, and woodland that reflect centuries of rural development. The Red Lion and the Bricklayers Arms , two long‑established public houses, continue to anchor the social life of the community. In 2013, Shamley Green featured in the BBC Horizon programme The Secret Life of the Cat , which concluded that the village had the highest density of domestic cats in the United Kingdom. The village’s origins stretch back to medieval times, with early spellings such as Shamele , Shambles , and Shamley Greene , and the name likely deriving from Old English el...
