In the Middle Ages a borough was created by either the King or a Lord as a potentially profitable element in the development of their estates.

Parliamentary elections were held from 1733 in what is now the White Hart inn: a book in 1844 notes this and that 8 to 10 people voted, as well as a sale of the manor for a very disproportionate sum of £60,000 in 1816.

[6] "Sandhills" was built in 1893 by Mervyn Macartney in free Tudor style, and is protected under UK law with Grade II listing.

The Greensand Way runs fairly centrally through the parish, immediately south of the main village street which is part of the A25 road.

[10] Directly opposite the main road is George Holman's 1624-built larger Pendell Court,[11] built of red brick with stone mullioned windows and tiled roof, marble fireplaces and woodwork.

Grade II listed, the house has three diagonal 17th century chimney stacks to the old left section at the point where it meets the new.

In keeping, its central doubled glazed doors has a Doric fluted pilaster (column) surround under flat porch hood.

Close stud timber framed on a brick plinth with rendered infill, the roof is hipped of Horsham stone, with three symmetrically chimney stacks.

A former medieval hall house, it has gabled end cross wings with jettied first floors, curly bargeboards and moulded dragon posts to stairwell corners.

There is one representative on Surrey County Council, Chris Farr of the Independent group whose extensive ward is called Godstone.