Chobham, Surrey

Chobham, Surrey is a small local village in Surrey, England. About 15 minutes drive from Woking (a larger town on the rail line, 30 minutes from London). Originally a one church, 4 pub village, in recent years with the influx of estate agents the village has changed considerably to become a much more commercial "home away from home" style area for Londoners.

The four pubs in the area are:

• The Castle Grove, a good traditional English pub with a public bar and a saloon bar, as well as pool table, darts and jukebox.
• The Red Lion, a pub that serves the red lion estate well.
• The Sun Inn (in the centre of town) that very much now caters for the London folk, now known locally as the Chobham Mafia.
• The Four Horseshoes, easily the best of the pubs with good food and a great area to sit in the summer time.

Chobham is probably most famous for the tank factory just outside it that created Chobham armour. However, there are also the historical "treacle mines" (when old soldiers buried their treacle before going off to war, it was later discovered and jokily referred to as the treacle mine!), Queen Victoria's visit during the war, as soldiers were stationed on it, the clump of trees on the hill that is many an icon, and its featuring in H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (Horsell Common, where the martians landed, is not far from Chobham). There is also a fantastic statue in honour of H.G. Wells in Woking Town Centre). The Beatles filmed some of their "Help!" film on Chobham Common, where the treacle mines story, clump of trees, and so on are to be found.

Brian Blessed also lives here.

Not to be confused with Cobham, Surrey.

External links

• Chobham Village Portal
• Virtual Chobham