Useful Books
Booklist
Images above: 1. Farnham library – 2. Farnham Library from West Street
Recommended reading about Farnham:
* available in Farnham Library
link to article about Farnham Library
Rural Rides * by William Cobbett (first published 1830. Penguin Classics 2001)
Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer * by George Sturt – aka George Bourne (first published 1907. Paperback 2010)
A Small Boy in the Sixties * by George Sturt (written c.1908, Caliban Books 1982)
Change in the Village * by George Sturt (first published 1912, Caliban Books, 1984)
Medieval Farnham * by Etienne Robo (1939)
The Book of Farnham * Farnham Chamber of Commerce 1949
Farnham Inheritance * by Nigel Temple (E.W. Langham, The Herald Press 1956)
The Buildings of England – Surrey by Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner (Penguin Books, 1962, 1995)
The Farnham Papers * Editor A L Crowe (Farnham Branch of the WEA 1963)
Farnham Buildings and People * by Nigel Temple (E.W.Langham 1963/Phillimore 1973)
Saxon Farnham * by Elfrida Manning (Phillimore for Farnham Museum Society 1970)
Victorian Farnham * by Ewbank Smith (Phillimore 1971)
Farnham and the Civil War * by Derek and Angela Hall (Farnham Museum Society 1973)
Edwardian Farnham * by Ewbank Smith (Charles Hammick 1979)
Rural Rides Revisited: a photographic exploration by Laurence Vulliamy (1980)
Farnham in War and Peace * by Ewbank Smith (Phillimore 1983)
Farnham Parks – An Historical Review * by Elfrida Manning (Friends of Farnham Park 1984)
Bygone Farnham * by Jean Parratt (Phillimore, 1985)
The Way we Were – a Social History of the Village of Rowledge * by Flora Westlake (Rowledge Parish Church 1986)
Around Farnham in Old Photographs * by Jean Parratt (Alan Sutton, 1990)
Farnham Past * by Jean Parratt (Phillimore, 1991)
Yesterday and Today – More of Around Farnham in Old Photographs * by Jean Parratt (Alan Sutton, 1992)
Wrecclesham & District – memories and odd jottings * by B H Elkins (Marketing Design Associates 1993)
Townscape with Figures: Farnham – Portrait of an English Town * by Richard Hoggart (Chatto & Windus, 1994)
Farnham by the Wey * by Jean Parratt (Chalford, 1995)
Images of Farnham * (Farnham Herald 1997)
Farnham: A Photographic History of Your Town by Jean Parratt (2001)
West Surrey Architecture by Christopher Budgen (Heritage of Waverley, 2002)
Farnham in the Civil War and the Commonwealth * by Laurence Spring and Derek Hall (Farnham Museum Society 2002)
Harold Falkner, More Than an Arts and Crafts Architect * by Sam Osmond (Phillimore 2003)
A Portrait of Farnham * by Jonathan Wood, Illustrator Gareth Ball (Farnham Herald 2003)
Farnham: A History & Celebration by Nick Channer (Ottakar’s 2004)
Farnham in Doors * by Jane Friend (Maltings Press 2006)
Father Robo’s Farnham: The Story of the author of Medieval Farnham by Rosemary Wisbey (Farnham & District Museum Society 2010)
The Walks near Farnham: 40 short walks 4 – 6 miles linking Crondall, Puttenham, Tilford, Frensham, Bentley * by Bill Andrews (2010)
Haunted Farnham * by Peter Underwood (2013)