[2] The parish covers northern, heavily wooded foothills of the Greensand Ridge and drains separately to east and west into tributaries of the Wey.

His son William, born 1587, was knighted in 1620 and built the old house of Busbridge, to judge from the features of the building, and formed the park, having a (royal) grant of free warren in his lands of 500 acres (200 ha) in 1637, and died 1650.

[3] The Church of St. John the Baptist, designed by George Gilbert Scott,[4] was built in a 13th-century style of Bargate stone with chalky limestone quoins, a central tower and windows.

The latter large town is formed of six surrounding suburban villages, together with an urban centre with a railway station on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs from London, diverging from the SWML at Woking, and bordered on the far side by the A3.

[9] This sparsely populated bulk of the parish has a minority of farmland but is otherwise part of the remaining area of The Weald, forming much of the green buffers between settlements in the south of the county.

Tuesley is a hamlet of the village 300 m (980 ft) west of the main settled corner of Busbridge, used for strategic meetings under the formative manor system developed by them.

This affirms the area as within the remnant Weald which is the Germanic Old English for a forest, where trees were cut and a temple to the god created.

[citation needed] Tuesley appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Tiwesle, a subsidiary manor of Godalming that rendered £2 to its overlord.

It was held by Rannulf Flambard from William the Conqueror (as a sub-tenant) and its recordable assets were: 1 hide and 1 plough and it had 8 households; one villager, I slave and 6 cottagers.

[3] The foundations of the "minster" were partly excavated in 1860 before covered up – only dry-stone walls and boundary posts mark the rectangle of the buried ruins.

[14] In 1956 Tuesley Court Farm was acquired by a Roman Catholic Holy Order and renamed Ladywell Convent after the Lady Well, one of the series of lakes forming much of the stream running through Busbridge.

The main feature of Munstead Heath, which is a triangular woodland dotted with homes, is the Edwin Lutyens-built house (finished in 1897) of Gertrude Jekyll, one of the most important figures in gardening worldwide in the 19th and 20th centuries – this is Grade I listed.

The owners state the site has 130 species of swans, geese and ducks, many endangered, rare pheasants, cranes and other exotic birds.

The area is served by three mid-distance local roads converging on the south of Godalming, each scaling the wooded slopes of the Greensand Ridge; none are dual carriageways.