Village Centre

It appears that Station Rd may not have existed at the south end of the High St; Broadford Lane providing the join between Knaphill Rd and the road to Mimbridge ^1,2.

From the car park an old lane runs around the cricket field to the Village Hall in Station Rd. This appears to have once been the main track to join the road to Mimbridge. ^1,2

Old roads around the centre of Chobham.

Map: David Stokes - based on OS.

Reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey

In medieval times, churches often had paths radiating out to outlying areas. One such path can still be seen; 'Church Path' runs almost due west from the church to Pankhurst and West End.

Aerial photographs show that the road north out of Chobham may have gone via Fowlers Well and Sandy Lane (see the web page describing the road to Egham). The parallel Windsor Rd may be a relative newcomer.

Little Heath Rd appears to be an important road leading to Chertsey Rd via Burr Hill Lane (meaning the lane leading to Burrowhill) and Waterperry Lane; and to Mincing Lane via the southern edge of Little Heath ^1,2.

The way from Burrowhill to Stonehill Rd to Chertsey appears to have gone from the top of Mincing Lane, along the straight track that leads SE to Worlds End Cottage and continues a dead straight line to the bridge over where the rivers join at Chobham Park Farm. Here it joins the old route of Stonehill Rd. This route has not been found on any maps so is conjectural.

The road to Chertsey appears to have gone straight across Chobham Park (see web page describing the road the Chertsey).

Since Woking did not exist until the middle of the 19th C, Sandpit Hall Rd may have been the most important road to the south of the village. Two tracks which are no longer used seem to connect Stonehill Rd with Sandpit Hall Rd.

Wallers Lane, to the north of the Bourne

Photo: David Stokes

The west-most track was known as Wallers Lane. It still exists as a green lane where it connects with Sandpit Hall Rd and Chertsey Rd - see photo. Where it meets the Bourne there is a layer of gravel in the bank which seems to suggest that it once was a made-up road. It appears that it once continued on up Chobham Park Lane to the bridge over the Ram at Chobham Park Farm. Thus it could have been the way from Milford Green to Stonehill Rd and on to Chertsey.

The easterly track is now just a farm track crossing the Bourne via a concrete bridge.

The convergence of so many roads at Chobham Park Farm suggests that it was once an important point; perhaps a mill once existed here? There are suggestions that Chobham Mill was connected with a Park.³

3. Chertsey Cartulary Court Rolls No. 1686. "Admission of Walter atte Mulle to place of land and pasture called le Mulleparrok, next Chabehammulle .." (Parrok is believed to be 'Park').