Photographer Cranleigh
Cranleigh-Gallery
Cranleigh is the largest village in England with a wide variety of interesting aspects, including the medieval church, cricket ground, and sporting amenities thats why I really enjoy the challenges that Cranleigh represents for a photographer. It has grate spots for location photography. also with lovely woodlands with grate coulors and views of the Surrey hills. Making it one of my preferred spots to Photograph in the whole of surrey.
More information on Cranleigh.
Cranleigh, the name derived from the cranes thought to have been prevalent at one time in the area, lies near the A281 between Guildford and Horsham. Despite having been deprived of a rail link in 1965, Cranleigh has prospered both as a satellite of Guildford, and as a service and light engineering centre in its own right. It is also a retail centre for the surrounding smaller villages.
The Anglican parish church of St Nicolas dates the first building on its site from around 1170, and the building was in its present form by the mid 14th century. The parish is in the Diocese of Guildford.
The village goes without a mention in the Domesday Book of 1085, although a population must have existed a century later large enough to warrant the building of the church. In common with other parts of the Weald, the forests supplied the timber which fuelled the ironworks which, apart from peasant agriculture, was the only place of employment.