Godalming want to be is a problem. Godalming lies approximately equidistant (50 kilometres) from Heathrow and Gatwick, the two major commercial international airports in South East England. Fairoaks is the closest airport, but no scheduled services are available from there. The Wey and Godalming Navigations terminates at the United Church. People live in the town centre and adjoining named neighbourhoods included within the Town: east Catteshall; west Aaron's Hill and Ockford Ridge; north: Farncombe, Charterhouse and Frith Hill; south: Holloway Hill, Busbridge and Crownpits. Sometimes Milford is classed as a suburb of Godalming. In general the southern network of roads towards
Godalming Hundred recreate a local government unit based on the old hundred borders. The Hundred of Godalming was formed sometime after 825 when Wessex annexed the "south eastern provinces" of Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Essex. Godalming takes its name from the Old English "Godhelm Ingas" meaning "the clan of Godhelm". It is supposed that Godhelm was a Saxon chieftain who first colonised this dry land, bordered by swamps and a steep valley as he and his folk moved up the valley of the River Wey. Archæological evidence indicates that the Iron Age hill fort at Hascombe had been refortified by the Romano-Britons