Hambledon, Surrey

Hambledon is a rural scattered village in the Waverley borough of Surrey, south of Guildford. It is dominated by a buffer zone of fields and woodland, mostly south of the Greensand Ridge escarpment between Witley and Chiddingfold, having no dual carriageways or railways, however it is bordered to the west by the Portsmouth Direct Line and some of its small population are London commuters or retirees. Its main amenities are a church a village pub and the village shop and post office.History and descriptionHambledon appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Hameledune held overall by Rannulf from Edward de Sarisber (Salisbury). Its domesday assets were: 3 hides of land; 7 ploughlands, 1 mill worth 2s 6d, 3acre of meadow, woodland worth 30 hogs. It rendered £5 per year to its feudal overlords.In the 16th century, part of its land was mined for iron ore. This became replaced by the 18th and 19th centuries by brickmaking.There is said to be buried treasure at Tolt Hill, near Hambledon, but no one has searched for it because it belongs to the Devil.