Pewley Hill

It links to the open space at Pewley Down and was used as the site of a semaphore station and a defensive fort in the nineteenth century.

Pewley Hill was part of lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Testard family.

It takes its name from the de-la-Puille family who acquired it from Richard Testard in 1255.

[1] In 1866 Guildford Corporation built a new reservoir at the top of Pewley Hill.

[2] Pewley Hill Fort (or Mobilization Centre) was built in around 1890 as part of the London Defence Positions scheme, running from Guildford along the North Downs to Fort Halstead, up the Darent Valley to Dartford, and north of the Thames to North Weald.