Shalford is a village near the centre of the county, south east of Guildford. The village appears in the Domesday Book as Scaldefor and was listed as having three mills. The village prospered during the reign of King John when it gained a charter for a great fair which covered a wide area. The village was also a centre for gunpowder production
The village had a number of fine houses and may have been a country retreat for wealthy people from Guildford. Shalford gained a railway station in 1849 but in 1944 was the scene of a major rail disaster when two goods trains, one carrying aviation spirit, collided.
