Is the story true that a Bagshot business man built Moscow’s gas works following a visit by Russian royalty to the Duke of Connaught?
Come and hear Neil Bartlett unravel the story and separate fact from fiction.

Thursday 16 October 2025

Doors open at 7pm for a start at 7:30

Venue: The Brook Church
(Next to the Coop in The Square)

All welcome. Bagshot Society members free,
£5 for anyone else – but why not join at the door for just £10 a year.

For more information see www.bagshotvillage.com/bagshot-society

Friday 17 January hosted by the Bagshot Society. Ask him the questions you want answers to. For details see https://bagshotvillage.org.uk/bagshot-society/

Wednesday 20 November 2024
Your opportunity to ask our County, Borough & Parish representatives the questions you want answers to.
Venue: The Brook Church (next to the Coop in The Square)
Doors open at 7pm for a start at 7:30. All welcome. Free.
Organised by The Bagshot Society.
For further information please see https://bagshotvillage.com/bagshot-society

Event supported by a grant from Windlesham Parish Council

A two and a half year, week by week, detailed photographic record of the development of the Chapel Lane meadow ‘Woodside Estate’ from green grass to a housing estate.

Presented by The Bagshot Society in the Brook Church on Wednesday 16 October starting at 7:30 pm (doors open 7 pm, refreshments available). Members free. Non-members welcome for £5 entry payable on the door (or why not join the Society?).

https://bagshotvillage.org.uk/bagshot-society

Saturday 5 October. Meet at 9:30 am in The Square. Gloves, tools, hi-viz tabards, etc, are available if you don’t have your own. Your chance to help keep our village a great place to live.

On Heritage Open Days many heritge properties that are not normally accessible to ther public are opened. Of interest in Bagshot is the chapel in the cemetary which will b eopen from 10am to 4pm on Sat 14 September. In Camberley the Obelisk will be open  from 11am to 4pm on Saturday 7 September and Frimley Park Mansion (now the Army Cadet Training Center) is open on Fri 13 Sept (booking required). For more information see https://bagshotvillage.org.uk/2024/HOD/

The Archaeology Centre, London Road, Bagshot was vandalised and the inside trashed [August 2024].  

The site has had minor incidents of vandalism over the past few years, broken windows, attempted forced entry and an arson attack on a garage, but nothing like this. 

Someone entered the building via an upstairs rear window. All the internal doors in the building were locked (as a result of past incidents) and the vandals smashed them open if they could, or just kicked the panels out if they could not. The computers were smashed, walls were daubed with paint and furniture thrown around.

At first it was thought that irreplaceable archaeological finds, such as rare very early English Venetian style glassware, dating from the first half of the 17th Century had been smashed. But once members of the Archaeology Group gained permission from Surrey County Council, who are the landlords, to go in and make a more detailed assessment it was discovered that, while many artifacts had been tipped out and scattered, none had actually been broken.

All the archaeological finds, and the group’s records, have now been removed to safe, but temporary, storage. The building has been boarded up and the group is without a home.

The building from the outside.

The building is locally listed but not on the national list. A submission was made but the relevant inspector turned it down because the two doors in the front are not symetrical.

It was built as a police station, providing three residences (two for constables and and one for a sargeant) plus a police office and cells. The door on the right was to the police office and was presumably made taller to give more clearance for police helmets. Some people think that this adds to, rather than detracts from, the building’s attraction.

Now taking place on 20 November. See https://bagshotvillage.com/bagshot-society This event had been postponed on account on the Generl Election.