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The romantic ruins of Britain’s first monastery

The 12 men who walked from France and built Waverley Abbey.

• 7 mins

Behind Bourne Woods' battle lines

The man in charge of the spit roast reveals how Gladiator celebrated after the battle.

• 6 mins

Godalming's greatest deception

How the town has been misleading the world for more than 140 years.

• 7 mins

The world’s first Christmas card

How the festive tradition was born in a Surrey village.

• 5 mins

Haslemere's musical gift

The family that inspired a musical revival from their instrument-making workshop.

• 9 mins

Trapped in Tatsfield

Surrey’s highest village is also its most isolated when the snow falls.

• 6 mins

The most excruciating noise

The ear-splitting ordeal of tuning Guildford Cathedral organ

• 7 mins

Dead to the world

The woman who chose to live her life in a tiny cell in Shere.

• 6 mins

The daring Westhumble cave rescue

It was 1952 and a 15-year-old boy found himself trapped underground.

• 5 mins

Found in a Dunsfold skip

From airbase to film set, all of Dunsfold's history can be found in the skip.

• 7 mins

Inside Wanborough Manor

The Queen, a Prime Minister, parties for film stars and pay phones for prostitutes.

• 5 mins

The village that was moved

He didn’t want any neighbours, so he demolished their cottages and closed the main road.

• 6 mins

Not for the squeamish

The Mytchett museum that documents the grim reality of wartime medicine.

• 5 mins

The flat-pack church

The prefabricated tin church that arrived in Surrey by horse and cart.

• 6 mins