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Extract from the Farnham Travel Guides:
Tucked into Surrey's southwestern corner, ten miles west of Guildford along the exposed ridgetop of the Hog's Back, lies
FARNHAM
. Smaller and, in parts, more charming than Guildford, Farnham moves at a slower pace. Despite its thousand-year history, the majority of Farnham's architecture dates from the eighteenth century, when the town enjoyed a boom period based on hop farming.
Farnham is home to Surrey's only intact
castle
, built around 1160 by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, as a convenient residence halfway between his diocese and London. The castle was continuously occupied until 1927,...
read the whole Farnham Travel Guides...
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