- Friday Street (Surrey)
infobox UK place
country = England
latitude=51.19757
longitude=-0.38555
official_name=Friday Street
map_type= Surrey
population=
os_grid_reference=TQ129455
shire_district=Mole Valley
shire_county =Surrey
region= South East England
constituency_westminster=East Surrey
post_town=Dorking |postcode_district = RH5
postcode_area= RH |dial_code =01306Friday Street is a hamlet on the lower slopes of
Leith Hill inSurrey ,England . It is set well off the main roads around a hammer pond in a steep wooded valley. It lies within thecivil parish of Wotton just to the south of the A25 running betweenGuildford to the west andDorking to the east. Neighbouring villages include the Abingers ofAbinger Hammer andAbinger Common as well as Wotton itself.There are a few houses in this tiny hamlet and an historic inn that bears the name of Stephan Langton,
Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of King John and signatory of theMagna Carta .Martin Tupper , the distinguished poet and antiquarian, wrote a biography of Stephan Langton in the 1850's which associates the venerable Archbishop to this area.Friday Street also features as the title of a song on the album 'Heavy Soul' by Surrey native Paul WellerIn 1984 Friday Street was used as a location for the BBC Television series "The Tripods" based on the books by John Christopher, where, for the sake of the story it became the village of "Wherton."
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