Godalming

Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England,  SSW of Guildford, traversing the banks of the River Wey in a hilly, heavily wooded part of the outer London commuter belt and  Green Belt which is the Greensand Ridge. Godalming is southwest of London and shares a three-way twinning arrangement with the towns of Joigny in France and Mayen in Germany. Friendship links are in place with the state of Georgia and Moscow.  James Oglethorpe of Godalming was the founder of the colony of Georgia.