Farnborough Village Hall
This cache is part of a series of caches which are placed at or near village halls and community centres. For details and statistics visit the Village Hall Series website Click here
Farnborough derives its name from Fearnbiorginga, meaning village among the ferns on the hill. Old records date from 862 when Ethelbert, King of Wessex, gave away 950 acres at Farnborough. The village was not included in the Domesday Book survey, but the manor existed in the Middle Ages and was held in the 13th century by Simon de Montfort.
Farnborough formed a civil parish in the Ruxley hundred of Kent. It is currently part of the London Borough of Bromley in Greater London.
The Parish Rooms were built in 1897, by a trust formed by local gentry, to provide a place for public gatherings of the residents of Farnborough, which had previously taken place in the Church and local Pubs. The building’s name has changed to The Village Hall and over the years there have been extensive changes made.
At times over the years the finances of the hall have been precarious; in 1942 the hall was leased by the Kent Educational Committee for a period of about 7 years – although they were charged nearly £500 in 1953 for the damage that they had caused during their tenancy.
A more detailed history of the hall can be found at the Farnborough Village History website.
The cache is a magnetically attached bison tube, which is a short walk away at:
N51 21.(D-E) C (F-C) E0 4.(A+E) (B-D-A) (C-D-E)
Where the date on the Farnborough Parish Room plaque is ABCD and the number on the lamppost outside the hall is EF (above HII).