| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.338°N -0.643°W |
| Official Name: | West End |
| Map Type: | Surrey |
| Static Image Name: | west end common1.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | A sandy part of West End Common notable for endemic heather (Ericaceae) |
| Static Image 2 Name: | West End village hall - geograph.org.uk - 73476.jpg |
| Static Image 2 Caption: | Village hall |
| Population: | 4,693 |
| Population Ref: | (2011 Census)[1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 14.52 |
| Civil Parish: | West End |
| Shire County: | Surrey |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituency Westminster: | Surrey Heath |
| Post Town: | WOKING |
| Postcode District: | GU24 |
| Postcode Area: | GU |
| Dial Code: | 01483 or 01276 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SU9361 |
West End is a village and civil parish in Surrey Heath, Surrey, England, approximately 25miles southwest of central London. It is midway between the towns of Camberley and Woking, 4miles to the west and east respectively. The River Bourne rises from its sources to the immediate west to run through the village. Until the mid 20th century, the West End consisted of a collection of smallholdings surrounded by a substantial area of common land
West End Common is comparable in size to Chobham Common to the north and includes training ranges of the British Army. Brentmoor Heath is to the north west of the village.
West End is equidistant between Bagshot and Brookwood railway stations, both away. The village is close to junction 3 of the M3 motorway.
Nearby lands were settled in prehistoric times, evidenced within this civil parish, with a megalithic barrow on Westend Common.[2] [3]
West End may have obtained its name because it was the west of Chobham, ENE. The 1845 map reproduced by EJ Willson provides boundaries at that date. Its direct predecessor named Westend was in 1870–72 described by John Marius Wilson as "a tything in Worplesdon parish, Surrey; 3¼ miles NW of Guildford. Pop., 341."[4] A dependency on Worplesdon church, as its tything, is attested in the medieval period until the late 19th century, after which the area formed part of the parish of Chobham.[5]
The "parish church", i.e. Church of England church of Holy Trinity, West End serves a similar area ecclesiastical parish and is a small building consisting of a chancel consecrated in 1890, nave consecrated in 1842, and a vestry built in 1906. The material is stone and the style is 13th century. Over the west end is a small bell-turret with a square spire above the entrance. Recognising rising population and housebuilding, the village gained its parish in 1895.[6]
In the 20th century many houses were added to the village, during which period books on the county and subject of nurseries show it to be a significant economic centre of nursery gardening.[7] The civil parish was created in 1968.[8]
The village provides some small shops and hairdressers and a BP garage. Some works operate, particularly in warehousing and distribution however most employment of an industrial, commercial, or retail kind is in neighbouring areas.
Every year on the village recreation ground is its Summer Fete and in the autumn, The Horticultural and Agricultural Show.
The two grounds in the village host a seniors football team and cricket team, competing within the county.
The bus routes 34 and 35 travel through the village at intervals of 30 minutes.
The western neighbourhood of the village has this locality name. However it has never formed a historically recorded hamlet under the vestry-administered system. The area is not mentioned in county records under the name of a manor. [9]
The West End Heath is an uninhabited restricted-access area and serves as a habitat for various rare heathland plants. It has been officially designated as such a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) by English Nature.[10] It is also a Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area within the remit of Surrey Heath.[11]
A linear settlement on a cul-de-sac road, Lucas Green Road, leading to the periphery of West End Common, Lucas Green has a close cluster of four buildings, surrounding Lucas Green Manor, which are listed. One, Lucas Green Manor house, at Grade II dates to the 16th century, and Lucas Green further extends down Lucas Green Road leading on to a small hamlet on the left consisting of eleven more properties, some of which date back to the 17th Century.[12]
The village has two schools: the Holy Trinity Church of England Primary school and Gordon's School which was built in commemoration of Gordon of Khartoum.
The River Bourne (Addlestone branch) runs through the village from its sources directly to the rapidly rising landscape to the rest, largely in the civil parish.
The population rose between the 2001 and 2011 censuses from 4,272 to 4,693 (on an increase of 48 households).[1]
| + 2011 Census Homes | |||||||
| Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | shared between households | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Civil Parish) | 1,049 | 387 | 171 | 76 | 5 | 0 |
| + 2011 Census Key Statistics | ||||||
| Output area | Population | Households | % Owned outright | % Owned with a loan | hectares | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Civil Parish) | 4,693 | 1,688 | 39.4% | 47.2% | 1,452 |
Brian May, lead guitarist of Queen (band) is a local resident.
