Mytchett
| Mytchett | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
 Mytchett Lake | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU888557 |
| Location: | 51°17’39"N, -0°43’36"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 4,624 (2011) |
| Post town: | Camberley |
| Postcode: | GU16 |
| Dialling code: | 01252 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Surrey Heath |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Surrey Heath |
Mytchett is a village in the west of Surrey, two miles east of the nearest town, Farnborough across the county border in Hampshire. Much of the village dates from the first half of the twentieth century. Mytchett had a population of 4,624 in the 2011 Census.
The nearest railway stations are Farnborough North on the North Downs Line and Farnborough (Main) on the South West Main Line.
Mytchett forms an eastern flank of the 'Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area', a conurbation straddling parts of three counties; Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire. Within its bounds are small parks, sports grounds and schools spans more than a mile north to south. It is bounded to the north by the South West Main Line, to the east by the Basingstoke Canal and west by the River Blackwater, which forms the boder with Hampshire.
History
The area where Mytchett has grown up was squarely in the middle of the very long north-south parish of Ash for about a thousand years, from before the year 1000 until 1866 when Mytchett became the south of the new parish of Frimley, itself formerly a chapelry occupying the northern half, or more, of Ash.[1]
Tne village today is heavily inhabieted by those connected with the Army: those connected with Aldershot, in the Staff College, which is in the parish, and Sandhurst, which lies just outside it. A very great part of the parish was open land, heather-covered, before...1801. Much of it is still uncultivated."[2]
North of the area the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum was built in 1864. It had in 1911 about two hundred resident boys and girls; a farm was attached to it. A national school was built in 1842 and enlarged in 1897.[2]
At the close of the agrarian age, an Inclosure Act (Ash and Frimley) in 1801 made large inclosures of "waste" (unproductive land with its own somewhat communal legal characteristics), but reserves certain rights of fuel (peat turf) to the inhabitants. The final common fields were inclosed under an Act passed in 1826.
A village grew up from about the 1900s at Mytchett Crossroads at what was the edge of Michet Farm. The area is shown undeveloped in maps of the late 19th century. Almost wholly residential with associated common public amenities, especially in sports, Mytchett has mainly been built since the 1930s. Pace of building has been relatively gradual; many houses have been substantially altered and extended.[2]
Sport and leisure
The crossroads has been the location of a main community centre since the late 1980s hosting clubs in sports and leisure. It has indoor sports facilities and accommodates two full-size football pitches and other training pitches.[3] Within visibility of the centre is the Tamu Nepalese Community Centre to the south founded by Gurkha families, numerous hereabouts.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ A History of the County of Surrey - Volume 3 p : The hundred of Woking: Introduction and map (Victoria County History)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A History of the County of Surrey - Volume 3 pp 340-344: @ (Victoria County History)
- ↑ "The Mytchett Centre". http://themytchettcentre.co.uk/.