2-637-012 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Godalming', 1911, (1914). Godalming a historic market town, civil parish and centre of the Borough of Waverley, Surrey. It is mentioned in the will of King Alfred the Great in 899, where it and Guildford are gifted to Alfred's nephew, Æthelwold. Godalming became the first town in the world to have installed a public electricity supply in September 1881. From A Pilgrimage In Surrey, Vol. 1, by James S. Ogilvy. [George Routledge & Sons Limited, London, 1914]