Fairlands

Fairlands has a parade of eight shops, a post office, a doctor's surgery, primary school, recreation ground and community centre. The latter is used for resident's association meetings, meetings of other groups of cross-sections of the community, and private hire events.

Directly north of Fairlands is the Equestrian Centre of Merrist Wood College, which specialises in horticulture, landscaping, garden design, animal care, countryside, golf, sports turf, floristry, arboriculture and equine studies - it encompasses 400 acres (160 ha) of land.

The Fairlands, Liddington Hall and Gravetts Lane Community Association (FLGCA) is formed of residents of Fairlands and the surrounding residential areas. The FLGCA administer the community centre, form an umbrella organisation for various groups specific to the neighbourhoods, and more generally act for the benefit of residents. A free monthly magazine is delivered to every house within its scope.

The Normandy Youth Center serves the area by sponsoring community-based programs targeting youth in the area (especially marginal groups and minorities) for the purpose of increasing exposure to educational opportunities and building a stronger community.^[2]

Fairlands and Littlefields Farms, together comprising around 250 acres (100 ha), were sold for development in 1926.^[3] Plans for an estate of around 1,000 houses were approved by the borough council in December 1934 and construction began the following year.^[4][5][6] A second phase of housebuilding began in the late-1950s^[7] and Fairlands County Primary School, designed by the architect, Raymond Ash, opened in 1966.^[8] The settlement is not bisected by any main roads and continues to reject street lighting.^[9] Today 12 residential roads and closes form a clustered hamlet.^[9]

The A323 Aldershot road adjoins Fairlands and provides an almost straight route from the community to Guildford, merging with the A322 road from Bagshot shortly before the A3's Wooden Bridge interchange.

Worplesdon railway station is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north-east.

A 13th century ecclesiastical parish church (before the establishment of civil parishes providing a quasi-local government role with a vestry and poor relief for this neighbourhood), is an arbitrary centre of Worplesdon, a linear settlement around its central street and partially along intersecting routes, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north-east.^[10] The church, St Mary's, has as its patron Eton College.

The nearest Roman Catholic church, linked to Fairlands by the Aldershot Road, is the Church of St Mary, Rydes Hill.^[11][12]