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acobs Well hardly has its own identity now due to the spread of Guildford town.   As an over all impression it is mostly a enclosed network of roads lined by small detached houses, many of bungalow style and forming a series of crescents and cul de sacs.   

In the wider area is Burpham Court Farm (which is open to the public) bordering the River Wey Navigation which meanders through the fields on the border with Woking Borough.  A little further down Clay Lane is a main junction slip road onto the A3 for traffic wishing to travel north.  A tow path runs alongside the River Wey  at Riverside Park, maintained by the local council.  Across the A3 is a Sainsbury's superstore and just to the south of Jacobs Well is Slyfield Green with one of the most widely known and largest industrial estates in the area.  Such names as Vines BMW and Wadham Kenning main dealerships are located here close to two primary schools.   Also other functional domestic facilities such as a refuse site and sewage works are in the general area.

To the north of Jacobs Well is Whitmoor Common, a large rough common with numerous public paths for recreational enjoyment.

History

Jacobs Well first appeared on the Worplesdon title map in 1839 but no one seems to know why.   There are wells there, but who was Jacob?  It must have been a very different place in those days with the A3 just a winding road leading down to Guildford High Street and the road towards a pre-railway Woking would have been little more than a dusty track.   Jacobs Well was distant form both places, but now it has become part of  Guildford's northerly spread.




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