Wisley
Sign in to saveWisley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England between Cobham and Woking, in the Borough of Guildford. It is the home of the Royal Horticultural Society's Wisley Garden. The River Wey runs through the village and Ockham and Wisley Commons form a large proportion of the parish on a high acid heathland, which is a rare soil type providing for its own types of habitat. It has a standard weather monitoring station, which has recorded some national record high temperatures.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.type
- Village and civil parish
- UK place.official_name
- Wisley
- UK place.population
- 185
- UK place.population_ref
- (Civil Parish 2011)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 4.03
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wisley
- UK place.shire_district
- Guildford
- UK place.shire_county
- Surrey
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Guildford
- UK place.post_town
- WOKING
- UK place.postcode_district
- GU23
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Guildford
- Population
- +185
- Area
- +4.03
- Image
- RHSGlasshouse.JPG
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- Climate
- 2006 heatwave
- History
- ''Domesday Book''
- Manorial descent
- 19th and 20th centuries
- Wisley Church
- Amenities
- Demography and housing
- References
- External links
Wisley is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England between Cobham and Woking, in the Borough of Guildford. It is the home of the Royal Horticultural Society's Wisley Garden. The River Wey runs through the village and Ockham and Wisley Commons form a large proportion of the parish on a high acid heathland, which is a rare soil type providing for its own types of habitat. It has a standard weather monitoring station, which has recorded some national record high temperatures.
==Etymology== Variant spellings of Wiselei (11th century) and Wyseleye (13th century) feature in the feet of fines and similar rolls at Westminster and Lambeth Palaces. The phoneme 'wiz' is typically a person's name and lea is another English word meaning meadow (not from Old French but from Old English, however with a similar Old French equivalent).