This event is part of the celebrations of the life and work of Capability Brown who worked at Madingley Hall in 1756. The Hall is now the home of the Institute of Continuing Education of the University of Cambridge. A pdf with full details is attached.

• Bringing Tudor and Stuart Surrey to life

This is the first time the important and multi faceted topic of Pilgrims and Pilgrimage has featured at a Medieval Studies Forum meeting. Two exciting external speakers will attend the meeting and be discussing pilgirmage from their perspectives: Martin Locker from UCL will be giving a presentation based on his research that set out to explore the link between the landscape and the pilgrim in Medieval Britain while John Jenkins from the University of York will discuss the experience of pilgrimage in relationship to English cathedrals that has arisen from the University's project.

Marc Meltonville, Food Historian at Historic Royal Palaces, will be giving a talk as part of the HLF funded 'Woking Palace and its Park' project. Marc gave a facscinating lecture to the Society on the Georgian kitchens at Kew a couple of years ago and is well known for his television programmes.

The lecture is free but places are limited and must be reserved in advance. Please see the attached flyer for details.

Members’ Talks
Part of the Surrey Industrial History Group Leatherhead lecture series (map).
Single lectures £5, payable on the day, but please contact Bob Bryson,
01483 577809, meetings@sihg.org.uk as seating is strictly limited.

Talk by Alan Thomas, SIHG.
Part of the Surrey Industrial History Group Leatherhead lecture series(map).
Single lectures £5, payable on the day, but please contact Bob Bryson, 01483 577809,

Talk by Geoffrey Mead, Sussex University.
Part of the Surrey Industrial History Group Leatherhead lecture series (map).
Single lectures £5, payable on the day, but please contact Bob Bryson, 01483 577809, meetings@sihg.org.uk as seating is strictly limited.

At the close of the seventh and final season of excavations on this important medieval and Tudor site, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, there is to be a Special Archaeological Open Day, hosted by the Friends of Woking Palace. In addition to guided tours of the trenches there will be a display of finds recovered from the site together with a range of stalls hosted by local heritage bodies.  Parking is either in Old Woking or at Hoebridge School from where a minibus shuttle service will run to Woking Palace between 11am and 4.30pm approx.