Why visit Churt
Townapedia lists 5 museums and landmarks, 6 parks and trails, 4 places to eat, 2 places to stay and 5 attractions in and around town.
Highlights include Stony Jump, The Devil's Jumps, High Jump, The Devil's Jumps, Rural Life Living Museum and The Sculpture Park.
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About Churt
Churt is a village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of the town of Farnham on the A287 road towards Hindhead. A clustered settlement is set in areas acting as its green buffers, which include the Devil's Jumps. The west of the village slopes down to the steep edge of Whitmore Vale, which is mostly in Headley, Hampshire; at the foot of this bank is a steeply cut brook which defines the Hampshire border. There are forests and heathland by and atop the Greensand Ridge, and the hamlet of Crosswater is in the north of the parish.
From the Wikipedia article Churt (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do5
Museums and landmarks5
Rural Life Living Museum
Museum · 3.2 mi
Open air museum of rural life near Farnham in Surrey, United Kingdom
Parks, trails and playgrounds6
Restaurants and cafes4
History
Churt's origins are Saxon. The village as Churt and Cherte is recorded in the 14th century as part of the "Great Sacks", and a tything of Farnham of the Bishop of Winchester; a subsidy roll assessed it at £3 9s ¼d (very roughly equivalent to £2,879 in 2025), presumably annually. Frensham Great Pond, dug to provide one such spiritual leader, Hædde, with fresh fish, is less than 10m beyond the north border.
Upon the establishment of the chapelry of Frensham in the 13th century, it became part of that entity short of a parish, which stretched as far south as Shottermill, a neighbourhood today of western Haslemere. Stating how the high common land was for tenants here of the lord of the manor, a court leet of 1540 ordered John Baker not to overburden it with his cattle ('beasts'). A case (in the national Court of the Exchequer) of 1692 asked whether Churt was in the Weald and whether wood cut from such land was tithe-free, and the juries answered both questions in the affirmative; the judges approved and refused a further appeal.
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Almost opposite the parish church of St John, which was built shortly before the parish was created in 1865, is the old forge, built in about 1600 and now a Grade II listed building. A barn in the western fields next to the farmhouse of Green Cross Farm was built in the 16th century in Tudor style of wooden framing on a brick plinth, and is also Grade II listed. There are several other listed buildings in the village.
In 1892 George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe enlarged the chancel of the relatively young church.
From the History section of Churt on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Geography
The parish is roughly square and gradually slopes down to the northwest and steeply by the western border, where it is drained by a straight brook (feeding into the Wey) which demarcates the border with Hampshire. In the north are sudden hills, or knolls, three of which are described as 'curiously conical sandhills' in the Victoria County History (1911), and are recorded on maps as the Devil's Jumps.
The town of Farnham is centred 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north. The village sits in forests and heathland by and atop acidic sands of largely uneroded sandstone (the local form, Bargate stone) north of the escarpment of the Greensand Ridge.
From the Wikipedia article Churt, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable people from Churt
- Edward BarrettEnglish cricketer and rugby union footballer (1879-1950)
- Anthony LoydBritish journalist
Born in Churt, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.
Where to stay2
Churches and places of worship5
Shopping1
Gas and EV charging1
Schools, colleges and libraries2
Map of Churt
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Getting there and nearby towns
Farnborough Airport (FAB) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 10 miles away.
- Bordon 4 mi west, about 7 min by car
- Haslemere 4 mi southeast, about 7 min by car
- Farnham 6 mi north, about 9 min by car
- Rake 7 mi southwest, about 12 min by car
- Aldershot 8 mi north, about 13 min by car
- Godalming 8 mi northeast, about 12 min by car
- Crondall 8 mi northwest, about 12 min by car
- Alton 9 mi west, about 14 min by car
- Fleet 10 mi north, about 17 min by car
- Farnborough 11 mi north, about 18 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
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Photo credits
- Tilford Rural Life Centre 88, Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0
- St Alban's Church, Tilford Road, Hindhead (June 2015) (3), Hassocks5489, CC0
- St John the Evangelist's Church, Old Kiln Lane, Churt (June 2015) (8), Hassocks5489, CC0
- Devil's Jumps, Churt 1, Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Lake at The Pride of the Valley Sculpture Park, don cload, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Street-level photo, jpennycook, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, richardc, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Street-level photo, richardc, CC BY-SA 4.0
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