Chilworth, Surrey

Chilworth is a village in the Guildford borough of Surrey, England, southeast of Guildford. Chilworth has three churches, two pre-secondary education schools, an independent pub-restaurant and a railway station. The village occupies both sides of the Tillingbourne between outcrops of the Greensand Ridge including St Martha's Hill. Footpaths lead through fields and woodlands along the ranges of hills. Chilworth is split between two civil parishes, Shalford CP to the west and St Martha's CP to the east. It also has a recreation ground with a park that has a sports pavilion used for football, and an all weather table tennis table.Benedictine monks since 2011 inhabit a hilltop monastery in the southern extreme of the parish of St Martha's, straddling northern Wonersh. Saint Augustine's Abbey was designed by Frederick Walters and founded as a Franciscan friary in 1892.GeographyThe village occupies both sides of the Tillingbourne between those areas of the Greensand Ridge to the south such as Tangley Hill and a steep knoll St Martha's Hill with has St Martha's Church and rest of the North Downs Way to the north. The North Downs are immediately north, east and west of that knoll. Footpaths lead through fields and long-established hillside woodlands along the ranges of hills. Chilworth is split between two civil parishes, Shalford to the west and otherwise largely uninhabited St Martha's to the east, and is in the south-east of Guildford borough in the mid-west of the county of Surrey.