It includes George Abbot School, a parade of small shops, and the nationally recognised Sutherland Memorial Park.

[5][6] It was, until the consecration of its church, known as the manor of Burpham or Burgham[7] in Worplesdon[8] Its owner in the 13th century was Thurstan le Despenser and it then passed through the Wintershull (by release), Bassett, Unwyn, Wolley, Mainwaring, and finally Wyrley families by relatives.

[9] From 1720 the owner of the Manor was Baron Onslow,[7] whose title was elevated to an Earldom from a Barony in the early nineteenth century and who were frequent MPs for Guildford.

Within its bounds are a Sainsbury's superstore, the Surrey County Cricket Centre, two Church of England churches, a police station, a council offices building, a long parade of shops on London Road, a pub, the Anchor and Horseshoes, and in its eastern straight border woodland and to the north-east the working farm of Gosden Hill Farm, partly in the Clandon civil parish and village.

[12] The church is an ornate nineteenth century work built in 1859 designed by Henry Woodyer[12] fronting the northwest of Sutherland Memorial Park and by a primary school.

The 1960s building is an unusual structure, with a cross-shaped floorplan, where laminated wooden beams at each corner define both walls and roof.

The formal landscaped gardens provide for passive recreation alongside the many sporting facilities offered, and an area has been set aside and planted as a wildflower meadow.

[19][20] The multi-use pavilion is home to a local nursery school, and provides changing and other facilities for the sports undertaken in the park.

The Park is the home ground of Burpham Football Club, who play in the Premier Division of the Surrey Elite Intermediate League.

The Green Man was a former coaching inn on the original route from Guildford to London; a public house had been on the site for more than 400 years.

"[26] On 10 January 1954 a light aircraft attempted a forced landing in the fields behind the George Abbot School but clipped a row of trees and spun into the rear garden of the Anchor and Horseshoes pub on the London Road.

He had been served with an eviction notice having unsuccessfully contested a court case against the council, the land owner, been arrested for affray earlier in the week of his death and incurred very large debts.