Qualla: Surrey https://qualla.com/surrey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Surrey https://qualla.com/surrey Surrey: Introduction https://qualla.com/surrey/ On a wet afternoon in June 1215, in a damp meadow on the south bank of the Thames at a place called Runnymede, King John put his seal to a document drafted by his rebellious barons. The meadow is in Surrey. So is the place, just up the river at Egham, where the United States dedicated a memorial to John F. Kennedy in 1965 on land granted in perpetuity to the American people. Surrey is the kind of county where world-altering things have happened in pleasant green fields and then receded politely from public memory. The name itself comes from the Old English Sūþrīge, meaning southern region. It has been quietly south of something else, usually London, for about thirteen hundred years.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/surrey-wp/gcpe-surrey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Surrey: The North Downs https://qualla.com/surrey/ The chalk ridge of the North Downs runs west to east across Surrey like a fold in the landscape, dividing the county in two. North of the Downs lies the Thames basin, flat and now mostly suburban, the commuter belt of greater London. South of the Downs is the Weald, the ancient f...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/surrey-wp/gcpe-surrey-the-north-downs.mp3 0:06 2 full Surrey: Saxons and Sub-Kings https://qualla.com/surrey/ In 1036, in a Surrey town called Guildford, a Saxon atrocity took place that the chronicles still describe with horror. Alfred Ætheling, son of Æthelred the Unready, had returned from exile in Normandy with a small retinue. Earl Godwin of Wessex met him in apparent friendship, es...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/e/surrey-wp/gcpe-surrey-brookwood-and-brooklands.mp3 0:06 5 full Surrey: Box Hill and Beyond https://qualla.com/surrey/ Modern Surrey runs from Staines on the Thames in the north to Haslemere in the south-west, with Woking as its largest town and Guildford as its historic county town. The Surrey Hills are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Box Hill, just north of Dorking, was the picnic spot i...

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