Pirbright

Pirbright is a village in Surrey, England. Neighbouring villages include Worplesdon, Deepcut, Brookwood and Normandy. Pirbright's local authority is the borough of Guildford and there is a civil parish council. Its ecclesiastical and civil parish has an area of some 4,711 acres (19.06 km2) containing two distinct communities with the military area to the north of the railway and the village to the south. The area includes army training barracks.

Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Pirige-fyrhþ = "sparse woodland where peartrees grow".

Excluding the military area, the village has a population of 1,750 with 1,200 living near the green and the remainder in three outlying settlements, each about a mile from the centre. The village is almost entirely surrounded by heathland, much of it owned and used by the MoD. Its churchyard contains the grave of the British Empire soldier and explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

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