Send, Surrey

Send
Send  Send shown within Surrey
Population	4,138
OS grid reference	TQ028553
District	Guildford
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WOKING
Postcode district	GU23
Dialling code	01483
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Mole Valley
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Send is a village in the English county of Surrey. It reputedly got its name as a corruption of the word sand, which was extracted until the 1990s for construction and other purposes at pits nearby. Send is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is named Sande.

History

Send appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Sande. It was held by Rainald (Reginald) from Alvred de Merleburgh (Marlborough). Its domesday assets were: 20 hides; 1 church, 10 ploughs, 2 mills worth £1 3s 6d, 5 fisheries worth 4s 6d, 84 acres (340,000 m²) of meadow, woodland worth 160 hogs. It rendered £15 10s 0d.

Location

Send is located 23 miles (37 km) south-west from Hyde Park Corner and 6 miles (10 km) south-west of junction 10 of the M25 and lies north-west of the A3 trunk road. The parish is bounded to the west and north by the River Wey and the Wey Navigation. The nearest railway station is at West Clandon but Woking is not much further and offers a better service. Nearby villages include Send Marsh, Ripley, Ockham, Woking, Pyrford and West Clandon.

Amenities

Health and Well-being

The small Send Surgery on Send Road next to the Church Rooms closed in 2003 and reopened on Send Barns Lane as the modern Villages Medical Centre serving 7,000 people in Send, Ripley and the surrounding villages.

Located in the former Send Surgery site is the Sunshine Clinic which offers "complementary and natural health therapies and beauty treatments".

Businesses

The main route through the community is the A247 Send Road, along which are scattered various shops, businesses and facilities including:

Send Post Office,

New Dawn Diving Centre,

Ocean City Takeaway,

Wakeford Fireplaces,

Alan Greenwood and Sons Funeral Directors,

Paul Wheeler Hair Design,

Vision Engineering Ltd.

There is also a recreation ground, the Lancaster Hall and the Church Rooms.

There are two public houses: The New Inn is adjacent to the Wey Navigation and The Saddlers Arms is in Send Marsh.

The Old Hall on Send Marsh Road provides full residential care with 40 rooms.

Schools

There are two schools in the village.

Send Church of England (Foundation) First School was built in 1958.

St Bede's Church of England (Aided) Junior School was built in 1939. During the planning process questions were raised in the House of Commons about the provision of adequate drainage - HC Deb 23 November 1938 vol 341 cc1763-4W.

Churches

The Send parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and dates from around 1220. The nave was rebuilt and the tower added in around 1485. New kitchen and toilet facilities were completed in 2002. A York stone path was laid in the churchyard in 2003. The church is a grade-2* listed building and is the oldest building still in use in Send. In January 2008 the church was voted Visitor/Leisure Attraction of the Year in the Guildford Life with Style awards attracting 75% of the votes and beating the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley, Watts Gallery, Guildford Tour Guides and Surrey Hills Llamas. In October 2008 the church received the Mayor of Guildford's Award for Access.

St William of York Roman Catholic Church closed in 2007.

Send Evangelical Church opened in May 1974 using a former Congregational chapel at Cartbridge, built in 1875.

War memorials

There are three war memorials in Send.

A Celtic-style stone cross next to the Church Rooms on Send Road rises above these inscriptions: '1914-1918 In memory of the men of this village who at the call of duty gave their lives their country. Faithful unto death.' The names of the fallen are: (1914–1918) G. Frederick Barnes, William Barnett, Arthur Brackley, William C. Collins, George F. Craddock, Trevor Durrant, Robert G. Fuller, Albert Giles, William Giles, Alan F. M. Grant, David Millard, Archibald Muir, Maurice Simmonds, W. Kenneth Sinclair, Robin R. Skene, Ernest Tickner, Jack Tickner, Herbert W. Walls, Ernest A. Whapshot, Sidney Wright, Alfred Wye. (1939–1945) Robert P. Dixon, Bradford W. O. Dockerty, Robin Giles, Rupert P. James, Frank Hack, Hubert E. Murrell, Ian Matheson, Brian T. Opperman, Donald W. S. Price, William Smith, Edward P. Winton, Edward Wood, Leslie Woolley, William Pratt.

A brick memorial mounted with a wrought iron '1914 1918' in the recreation ground near the corner of Send Road and Sandy Lane bears the words: 'This recreation ground was purchased by public subscription and was opened June 1, 1920 for the benefits of the inhabitants of Send as a memorial to the sailors and soldiers who fell and in grateful recognition of those in the village who took part in the Great War of 1914-1918. Trustees: S. S. Boorman, A. H. Lancaster, J. A. Shirer, W. M. Grant, F. W. Morgan Jones, W. G. Whitbourn.'

A stone tablet on the north wall of the nave inside the parish church bears this inscription: 'The peal of six bells was hung as a memorial to those of this parish who lost their lives in two world wars and as a thank offering for victory.' The names listed are the same as on the Celtic-cross memorial but with the addition of five people 'killed by enemy action': V. Bowers, H. C. Parsons, H. E. Privett, M. J. Privett and V. Privett. Members of the Privett family were killed on 21 August 1944 by the explosion of a V1 flying bomb which landed on their home at Burnt Common Cottages.

Filming locations

In April 2009, scenes for a BBC Drama production of Jane Austen's "Emma", adapted by Sandy Welch and starring Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller, Blake Ritson, Johdi May, Christina Cole, Robert Bathurst, Louise Dylan, Dan Fredenburgh, Tamsin Greig and Rupert Evans were filmed in and around Send Parish Church. In 1999, scenes for The Mrs Bradley Mysteries starring Dame Diana Rigg and Neil Dudgeon were filmed in the churchyard.

Prison

There is a women's prison called HMP Send on the site of a former isolation hospital. Following various boundary changes this facility is now in the southern part of the parish of Ripley, which used to be part of the larger parish of Send.

Sport

Send's local football team is called Send United. There is fishing on the River Wey and in the nearby sandpits. There is sailing on Papercourt Lake.

Send was the home of defunct 1950s Formula One and sports car constructor Connaught.

The Concorde Cricket Club (formerly British Aerospace Cricket Club) are based at Sendholme on Potters Lane. Sendholme is the birthplace of William Hargreaves Leese who went on to play for the Marylebone Cricket Club in the later part of the nineteenth century. The Leese Baronets of Sendholme in Send in the County of Surrey, is a dormant title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

Admirals, Generals and Airmen

Lieutenant-General William Evelyn Colonel of the 29th Foot in the British Army and Member of Parliament for Helston (1767–74), a son of Sir John Evelyn of Wotton, resided at Send Grove, Church Lane, and he laid out the grounds. On his death, in 1783, it was bought by Admiral Sir Francis William Drake, Governor of Newfoundland (1750–1752), second in command to Rodney in his victory of 1782 over De Grasse. As Rear-Admiral, Francis William Drake flew his flag on HMS Victory from 26 September 1780 to 29 December 1780.

Flight Lieutenant Robin R Skene, one of the first members of the Royal Flying Corps, was buried in the churchyard after crashing in his Blériot monoplane shortly after take-off from Netheravon, Wiltshire, in 1914 on 12 August en route to Dover and France at the start of the First World War. He and mechanic R. Barlow were the first members of the Royal Flying Corps to die on active duty and among the first British casualties of the war.

Flooding

Following flooding in Send Marsh in 2000, when 16 properties were flooded to a depth of 1m, causing £600,000 of damage, a five-month Environment Agency scheme costing £400,000 began in February 2007 to reduce the risk from the East Clandon stream. The stream was diverted in the 1870s for brick-making and could revert to its original course when flooded.

Agriculture

A former landfill in Send is now a 20 hectare plantation of short rotation coppice willow.

Notable residents

• The British guitarist Eric Clapton spent two years as a pupil at Send's one-time secondary modern school (now St. Bede's Church of England Junior School).
• Modfather Musician Paul Weller lived for several years in Vicarage Lane.
• Anthony Phillips, former Genesis guitarist, lived and recorded at Send Barns on Send Barns Lane until 1981.
• The Send Barns Orchestra and Barge Rabble conducted by Jeremy Gilbert are credited on the 1977 album The Geese and the Ghost.
• Ghost Production Studios, based at the Old Riding Stables on Send Hill, have worked with several well known clients, including Paul Connelly, Ben Lovejoy, Sue Macmillan, Social, Satellite State, Go West, Tony Hadley, Heat Wave, Charlie Morgan, Mark Brizickey, Adam Wakeman, Victoria Beckham, Elton John, and Draven.

• Elizabeth Macarthur Onslow (1840–1911), an Australian pastoralist and property manager born in Menangle, New South Wales, died during a visit to England and is buried in Send churchyard.
• In 1911 Send Grove was the property of and occupied by the Misses Onslow.
• Woodhill was the seat of the Dowager Countess of Wharncliffe.
• Loelia Lindsay, (1902–1993) best remembered as Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, lived at Send Grove and later at the Old Vicarage in Church Lane.
• The children's novelist Monica Edwards lived at Send from 1939 to 1947.
• Conservative MP Philip Hammond lives in Send Barns, Send. This is down Send Barns Lane where Anthony Phillips, ex Genesis guitarist, used to live. This is near Send First School. It is an old Tudor (Elizabethan Tudor Era) house with plenty of land with it.

External links

• Send & Ripley History