Formerly a hamlet distinct from Farncombe and with closer links to Compton, Binscombe expanded from the 1930s onwards with the addition of the ‘Binscombe Housing Estate’. It predates both Godalming and Farncombe as a settlement, originating in the Iron Age, if not earlier, and continuing into the Roman era as a likely villa site plus associated cemetery. As such it may have had links with the Compton Roman villa and the Roman temple at Wanborough, and thus have constituted a comparative local 'hub' (its name now lost) within sparsely settled Roman Surrey. Continuity between this and later Saxon settlement is not established, and there is possible evidence of the villa dwelling coming to a violent end.