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
Surrey Police and Godalming had separate borough police forces. The Reigate and Guildford forces were merged into Surrey's in 1943. Part of the present force area was originally part of the Metropolitan Police District, and was only transferred to the control of Surrey Police from the Metropolitan Police in 2000. This includes the boroughs of Epsom and Ewell, Spelthorne and part of Reigate and Banstead and Elmbridge. Surrey Police was divided into three divisions but in 2010 became a single division, and as of March 2014 is policed by 1,938 regular police officers, in addition to 182 Special Constables and 153 Police