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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 170 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GODALMING , a See also:

market-See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the See also:Guildford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Surrey, See also:England, 34 M. S.W. of See also:London by the London & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 8748. It is bC&utifully situatecj on the right See also:bank of the Wey, which is navigable thence to the See also:Thames, and on the high road the See also:water runs into a See also:reservoir from the lips of an See also:image. But between London and See also:Portsmouth. Steep hills, finely wooded, according to popular See also:legend it proceeds from the same ultimate enclose the valley. The See also:chief public buildings are the See also:church of source as the See also:Ganges, though underground. Its course is gener-SS. See also:Peter and See also:Paul, a cruciform See also:building of mixed See also:architecture, ally south-easterly. After passing through See also:Nasik See also:district, it but principally See also:Early See also:English and Perpendicular; the town-See also:hall, crosses into the dominions of the See also:nizam of See also:Hyderabad. When See also:Victoria hall, and market-See also:house, and a technical See also:institute and it again strikes See also:British territory it is joined by the Pranhita, school of See also:science and See also:art.

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Charterhouse School, one of the with its tributaries the See also:Wardha, the Penganga and See also:Wainganga. See also:principal English public See also:schools, originally founded in 1611, was For some distance it flows between the nizam's dominions and transferred from Charterhouse Square, London, to Godalming-in the Upper See also:Godavari district, and receives the Indravati, the Tal 1872. It stands within grounds 92 acres in extent, See also:half a mile and the Sabari. The stream has here a channel varying from See also:north of Godalming, and consists of spacious buildings in See also:Gothic 1 to 2 M. in breadth, occasionally broken by alluvial islands. See also:style, with a See also:chapel, library and hall, besides boarding-houses, Parallel to the See also:river stretch See also:long ranges of hills. Below the masters' houses and sanatoria. (See CIARTERHOUSE.) Godalming junction of the Sabari the channel begins to See also:contract. The has manufactures of See also:paper, See also:leather, See also:parchment and See also:hosiery, and flanking hills gradually See also:close in on both sides, and the result is some See also:trade in See also:corn, See also:malt, bark, hoops and See also:timber; and the a magnificent See also:gorge only 200 yds. wide through which the water Bargate See also:stone, of which the See also:parish church is built, is still quarried. flows into the See also:plain of the See also:delta, about 6o m. from the See also:sea. The The borough is under a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. See also:head of the delta is at the See also:village of Dowlaishweram, where the See also:Area, 812 acres. See also:main stream is crossed by the See also:irrigation anicut. The river has Godalming (Godelminge) belonged to See also:King See also:Alfred, and was a seven mouths, the largest being the Gautami Godavari. The royal See also:manor at the See also:time of Domesday. The manor belonged to Godavari is regarded as peculiarly sacred, and once every twelve the see of See also:Salisbury in the See also:middle ages, but reverted to the See also:crown years the See also:great bathing festival called Pushkaram is held on its in the time of See also:Henry VIII. Godalming was incorporated by See also:banks at See also:Rajahmundry. See also:Elizabeth in 1574, when the borough originated.

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charter The upper See also:waters of the Godavari are scarcely utilized for was confirmed by See also:James I. in 162o, and a fresh charter was irrigation, but the entire delta has been turned into a See also:garden of granted by See also:Charles II. in 1666. The borough was never repre- perennial crops by means of the anicut at Dowlaishweram, sented in See also:parliament. The See also:bishop of Salisbury in 1300 received the constructed by See also:Sir See also:Arthur See also:Cotton, from which three main canals See also:grant of a weekly market to be held on Mondays: the See also:day was are See also:drawn off. The river channel here is 3z M. wide. The anicut altered to Wednesday by Elizabeth's charter.: The bishop's is a substantial See also:mass of stone, bedded in See also:lime See also:cement, about grant included a See also:fair at the feast of St Peter and St Paul (29th of 24 M. long, 130 ft. broad at the See also:base, and 12 ft. high. The See also:June). Another fair at See also:Candlemas (2nd of See also:February) was granted stream is thus pent back so as to See also:supply a See also:volume of 3000 cubic ft. by Elizabeth. The market is still held. The making of See also:cloth, of water per second during its See also:low See also:season, and 12,000 cubic ft. particularly See also:Hampshire kerseys, was the See also:staple See also:industry of at time of See also:flood. The main canals have a See also:total length of 493 m., Godalming in the middle ages, but it began to decay early in the irrigating 662,000 acres, and all navigable; and there are 1929 M. 17th-See also:century and by 185o was practically 'See also:extinct. As in other of distributary channels.

In 1864 water-communication was cases, See also:

dyeing was subsidiary to the cloth industry. Tanning, opened between the deltas of the Godavari and See also:Kistna. Rocky introduced in the 15th century, survives. The See also:present manu- barriers and rapids obstruct See also:navigation in the upper portion of facture of fleecy hosiery See also:dates from the end of the 18th century. the Godavari.

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