Present Day Aspect and Character

n unspoilt sandstone country west of Godalming,  nestles the charming village of Shackleford. It is a street of picturesque sandstone and brick houses with the addition of careful early 20th century planting and walling so that the village appears to unfold in front of the onlooker.   The village is traditional and uncontrived, beautiful in its natural simplicity and in an envious position, so rural and yet so close to the A3 and Godalming town centre.

The narrow village street winds gently between walled gardens and at a fork in the road the large open playing fields of Aldro School become apparent.  To the south along first Grenville Road then Shackleford Road, the traveller will come across St Mary’s Church by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1865.    The church is a good example of Victorian Gothic style.   

Voysey built Norney, a big house  nearby, in 1897 using rough-cast and yellow limestone.   Over all the village  has many attractive houses and some fine architecture.

Schools:
Aldro Prep Boys Independent School    Tel: 01483 810266
St Mary's C of E                                             Tel: 01483 414749

Aldro School in the centre of the village was built as mansion in the last century on the site of Hall Place, which William de Shackleford owned during the reign of Henry VIII.   Its main block dates from around 1900 but it still retains the 18th century stables, complete with cupola, that served the previous house on the site.

Public House
The Cyder House Inn, Peperharow Lane built in 1880 as a pub, but extensively modernised to be spacious and airy set in one of the county's most popular walking areas.    Tel: 01483 810360