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The Clock in Guildford High Street, Surrey

Guildford Guildford is the county town of Surrey, in the heart of the county. It is twenty-seven miles southwest of London on the A3 trunk road linking the capital to Portsmouth. Guildford's position was its foundation and its fortune, for the town stands in the gap in the Downs where the River Wey forces its passage and where it was ancient days forded by the Harrow Way. To the west of the gap rises the Hog's Back and to the east the North Downs rise steeply, are thus all traffic had to come here to pass through this gap, until the Guildford Bypass was forced across the hills. Today, houses climb up the sides of the hills, but they are no less steep and the main roads still cross the Wey on two bridges in the narrow gap of the Downs. (Read more)