Lt. F. Godwin-Austen

"SHALFORD is a parish and village, with a station on the Reading and Reigate branch of the South Eastern railway, about 1 mile south from Guildford and 28 from London; the river Wey and the Tillingbourn pass through the parish, which is in the South Western division of the county, Blackheath hundred, Guildford petty sessional division, Hambledon union, Guildford and Godalming county court district, rural deanery of Guildford, archdeaconry of Surrey and diocese of Winchester. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, rebuilt in 1846, is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles with arcades of four arches, south transept, south porch and a tower at the north-west angle with lofty shingled spire and containing a clock and 6 bells: the stained east window was presented by Sir Henry E. Austen knt. on the restoration of the church; in the transept is a memorial window, erected by the Misses Godwin-Austen in 1880, to their brother, who was killed in action at Isandhlana, South Africa, 22nd Jan. 1879, during the Zulu war."
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