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Wormley
Wormley Wormley shown within Surrey
Population	less than 5,000
OS grid reference	SU947383
District	Waverley
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Haslemere
Postcode district	GU8
Dialling code	01428
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	South West Surrey
List of places UK England Surrey 51°08′10″N 0°38′47″W / 51.1362°N 0.6464°W / 51.1362; -0.6464Coordinates: 51°08′10″N 0°38′47″W / 51.1362°N 0.6464°W / 51.1362; -0.6464

Wormley is a village in Surrey, England. It is a dispersed community largely consisting of a scattering of houses on the A283 Petworth Road between Witley and Chiddingfold and Combe Lane, a turning off the A283 where Witley station and further houses are situated. Part of the village is in the census area of Witley and part in that of Chiddingfold.

The name derives from the Old English wyrm, snake, and leah, clearing.^[1]

Wormley developed primarily as a result of the construction of Witley station, in the 19th century, on the main London Waterloo to Portsmouth line. Its best known building is probably King Edward's School, Witley and it was also the location for Cooper & Sons Ltd walking stick factory which has now been replaced by houses and a light industrial estate. The Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory was based in Wormley.

A number of the older houses in Wormley were designed by Gertrude Jekyll. George Eliot is a notable former resident, as is Louis de Bernières who based his collection of short stories, Notwithstanding,^[2] on Wormley and the local area. De Bernières muses whether Wormley is, or is no longer, the rural idyll. Gertrude Mary Tuckwell lived the last twenty years of her life in Little Woodlands, Combe Lane, Wormley.

Wormley's only public house, the Wood Pigeon, closed in 2007.^[3]

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• Photos of Wormley

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