Godalming Godalming Town Council contains has 138 listed buildings, of which 82 are within the town centre rather than any of the named adjoining neighbourhoods, and 18 of which are monuments. These include Tudor timber framed buildings, 17th-century brickwork buildings and a wider selection of buildings are on the locally listed buildings register. One of its most famous landmarks is 'The Pepperpot' "which is Godalming's old town hall." Other significant buildings in the town include Edwin Lutyens's Red House, and a significant English public school, Charterhouse, which stands from the town centre, on the top of Charterhouse Hill, which is half-separated
Godalming Hundred Sussex while Aelle was Bretwalda and later occupied by Wessex under Cædwalla. Christianity is thought to have come relatively late to the Anglo Saxons of Surrey with the religion being formally established sometime after 675 when Surrey's only known sub-king Frithuwold converted and founded Chertsey Abbey. As such this area was one of the last in southern England to convert formally to Christianity. Nevertheless, the area around Godalming has been described as "one of the most religiously dominated landscapes in England" and is and was a deeply pagan place. On a hill just south of Godalming town there was once