Camberley#Heatherside

Camberley was assigned its current name on 15 January 1877 by the General Post Office. Previously, the settlement had been known as "Cambridge Town" and the change was made to prevent letters and parcels being misdirected to Cambridge in the East of England. The new name is a portmanteau of "Cam" (the name of a local stream), "Amber Hill" (an area of high ground identified in a survey of 1607 by the cartographer, John Norden) and "{{emdash}}ley" (a suffix found in local toponyms, such as Frimley and Yateley, derived from the Old English lee meaning "shelter" or lea meaning "pasture" or "meadow").{{cite news |last= McEwan |first= Fergus |date= 21 January 2017 |title= Museum celebrates 140 years of Camberley's name, but where did it come from? |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/museum-celebrates-140-years-camberleys-12484314 |access-date= 16 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211052/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/museum-celebrates-140-years-camberleys-12484314 |url-status= live }}{{harvnb|Poulter|1969|p=19}}

As Cambridge Town, the settlement was originally named for Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, who laid the foundation stone of the Staff College in December 1859. Similarly, Yorktown (sometimes spelled York Town), to the west of Camberley, was named for Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, who authorised the construction of the Royal Military College in December 1802.{{harvnb|Poulter|1969|pp=16-18}}{{refn|Yorktown was known as New Town until 1831, when the named was changed in honour of Prince Frederick.|group=note}} The dukes were commanders-in-chief of the British Army at the times when the two colleges were founded. The inns, the Duke of York and The Cambridge Hotel, were among the first buildings to be constructed in Yorktown and Camberley respectively.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=6-7}}{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=18-19}}

Several of the street names in Camberley and Yorktown are named for early local landowners, including Teckels Avenue (after John Teckel, builder of Teckels Castle),{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|pp=14-15}} Stanhope Road (after the family of Griselda Stanhope, Teckel’s wife){{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=5}} and Sparvell Walk (after David Sparvell, a town alderman). Watchetts Drive takes its name from a former manor field (Watchetts is derived from woad scaet, meaning land where woad grows).{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=51}} Osnaburgh Parade is named after Osnaburgh, an estate in Fife held by Prince Frederick.{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|p=34}}

{{see also|Surrey#Climate}}

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Camberley is in the far west of Surrey, adjacent to the boundaries of Hampshire's Hart district and Berkshire's Bracknell Forest district. It lies directly between the A30 national route and M3 motorway (junction 4 exit). It is at the northern edge of the Blackwater Valley conurbation, {{convert|5|mi|km}} north of Farnborough, {{convert|8|mi|km}} south of Bracknell and {{convert|17|mi|km}} east of Basingstoke.

The town of Blackwater, {{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on}} to the west is identified by the Government Statistical Service (including its ONS office) as within the Camberley Built-up-Area but is in the Hart District of Hampshire and has its own town council (both take in Hawley).

Camberley primarily lies on the Bagshot Beds, deposited in the Eocene. This sandy layer contains seams of clay and areas of pebble gravel.{{harvnb|Sherlock|Casey|Holmes|Wilson|1960|pp= 26, 36}}

Before the 19th century, the area now occupied by Camberley was referred to as Bagshot or Frimley Heath.John Roque's map of the Manor of Frimley, c.1770, reproduced in Bennett 2009 p. xii An Iron Age fort, among many examples known as Caesar's Camp, was to the north of this area alongside the Roman road The Devil's Highway.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=1}} The Intenarium Curiosum, published in 1724, describes a collection of Roman pottery around the area, and a further collection was discovered at Frimley Green in the late 20th century. In the Middle Ages, the area was part of Windsor Forest.

In the 17th century, the area along the turnpike road through Bagshot Heath (now the A30) was known as a haunt of highwaymen, such as William Davies – also known as the Golden Farmer{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izdfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28|title=The History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen … A New Edition|first=Charles|last=Johnson|publisher=John Thomson & Company|year=1814|pages=28–29|access-date=22 September 2020|archive-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926182633/https://books.google.com/books?id=izdfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}{{refn|Davis was tried and hanged at what is now the Jolly Farmer roundabout.{{cite book|title=The Short And Bloody History Of Highwaymen|first=John|last=Farman|publisher=Random House|page=55|year=2012|isbn=978-1-448-12109-0}}|group=note}} – and Claude Duval. The land remained largely undeveloped and uncultivated due to a sandy topsoil making it unsuitable for farming. In A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, written between 1724 and 1726, Daniel Defoe described the area as barren and sterile; "a mark of the just resentment shew'd by Heaven upon the Englishmen's pride… horrid and frightful to look on, not only good for little, but good for nothing".{{cite web |url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/defoe/daniel/britain/complete.html |title=A tour through the whole island of Great Britain |publisher=Ebooks.adelaide.edu.au |access-date=16 September 2011 |archive-date=15 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115184736/https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/defoe/daniel/britain/complete.html |url-status=dead }} A brick tower was built on top of The Knoll in the 1770s, by John Norris of Blackwater. It may have been used for communications but there is no firm evidence. The remains are now known as The Obelisk.{{sfn|Bennett|2009|p=2}}{{cite web|url=http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/leisureactivitiesinsurreyheath/obelisk.htm|title=The Obelisk|publisher=Surrey Heath Borough Council|access-date=24 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126225044/http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/leisureactivitiesinsurreyheath/obelisk.htm|archive-date=26 January 2013|df=dmy-all}}

The town as it now stands has its roots in the building of The Royal Military College, which later became the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1812. A settlement known as "New Town" grew in the area around the college which in 1831 was renamed Yorktown, after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.{{cite web |author=Philip Ralph Johnston |url=http://www.philipjohnston.com/rmas/history.htm |title=History of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |publisher=Philipjohnston.com |access-date=16 September 2011 |archive-date=20 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820121922/http://www.philipjohnston.com/rmas/history.htm |url-status=live }} At this time, the population was 702. In 1848, the first parish church of St. Michael, Yorktown was built by Henry Woodyer, in an area formerly part of Frimley, itself only a chapelry of Ash. Later, the Staff College was established to the east of the academy, and a property speculator built the nearby Cambridge Hotel.

During the 19th century, Camberley grew in size. This was given added impetus with the arrival of the branch-line railway and railway station in 1878 and a reputation for healthy air, due to the vast number of pine trees, which were said to be good for those suffering from pulmonary disorders. By the end of the century the population had reached 8,400. Since then, the town has absorbed the original settlement of Yorktown, which is now regarded as part of Camberley.

The Southern Scott Scramble, the first known motorcycle scrambling event, took place on Camberley Heath on 29 March 1924. The event, won by A.B. Sparks, attracted a crowd in the thousands and is considered to be the first instance of what later developed in the sport of motocross. During the Second World War, the Old Dean common was used as an instruction camp of the Free French Forces. The Kremer prize was conceived in the Cambridge Hotel in Camberley in 1959 after Henry Kremer toured a Microcell factory.

The defunct Barossa Golf Club, on Barossa Common, was founded in 1893 and continued until the Second World War.{{cite web |url= http://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=802 |title= Barossa Golf Club, Camberley |publisher= Golf's Missing Links |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140911012555/http://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=802 |archive-date= 11 September 2014 }}

The Old Dean housing estate was built in the 1950s on the "Old Dean Common" for residents of heavily bombed Surrey-area's homeless after the Second World War. Many of the roads on that half of the Old Dean are named after areas of London, with the others named after places on the common.

In 1969 there was an outbreak of rabies when a dog, just released from a six month quarantine after returning from Germany, attacked two people on Camberley Common. The scare resulted in restriction orders for dogs and large-scale shoots to carry out the destruction of foxes and other wildlife.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.historytoday.com/neil-pemberton/mad-dogs-and-englishmen|title=Mad Dogs and Englishmen|magazine=History Today|issue=9|volume=57|author=Neil Pemberton|year=2007|access-date=29 December 2013|archive-date=1 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101084450/http://www.historytoday.com/neil-pemberton/mad-dogs-and-englishmen|url-status=live}}

After debate and delay (plans having been discussed for over half a decade), in 2006, a {{convert|7|acre|ha|adj=on}} mixed-use development west of Park Street named The Atrium was built of residential, leisure and retail buildings with wide pedestrianised areas and 683 public parking spaces. Its 217 mid-rise apartments split into courtyards in the Barcelona style. Fourteen new retail units face directly onto Park Street, opposite the Main Square shopping centre. Park Street has been pedestrianised and landscaped as part of the development. Leisure facilities include a nine-screen cinema, a bowling alley, a health and fitness club, cafés and restaurants. Various elements of The Atrium were opened during 2008, with the final elements, the main cinema and bowling alley, opening in October and November 2008, respectively.{{cite web|url= http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/council/theatrium/default.htm |publisher= Surrey Heath |title= Atrium Update |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140719115737/http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/council/theatrium/default.htm |archive-date=19 July 2014}}

In 2009, the town's households were named by Experian as having the highest carbon footprint in the UK, estimated at 28.05 tonnes per household per year (compared to 18.36 tonnes for the lowest, South Shields).{{cite web|url=http://www.experian.co.uk/search/index.html?cx=018221729092257204127%3A2-4ig1wazeo&cof=FORID%3A10%3BNB%3A1&ie=UTF-8&q=camberley&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search|title=Carbon footprint|publisher=Experian.co.uk|access-date=16 September 2011|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122220512/https://www.experian.co.uk/search/index.html?cx=018221729092257204127%3A2-4ig1wazeo&cof=FORID%3A10%3BNB%3A1&ie=UTF-8&q=camberley&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search|url-status=live}}

Camberley is in the parliamentary constituency of Surrey Heath and was represented at Westminster from May 2005 to July 2024 by Conservative Michael Gove. After stepping down in the 2024 election Gove was replaced by Al Pinkerton of the Liberal Democrats

Surrey County Council, headquartered in Reigate, is elected every four years. Camberley is represented by three councillors - one for each of the "Camberley East", "Camberley West" and "Heatherside and Parkside" divisions.{{cite web |title= Your Councillors by Division |date= 17 September 2023 |publisher= Surrey County Council |url= https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 11 May 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180511014133/https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |url-status= live }}

Elections to Surrey Heath take place every four years. Three councillors represent "Heatherside" ward and two councillors are elected to each of the "Old Dean", "Parkside", "St Michael's", "St Paul's", "Town" and "Watchetts" wards.{{cite web |title= Your Councillors by Ward |url= https://surreyheath.moderngov.co.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 7 May 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230507220519/https://surreyheath.moderngov.co.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |url-status= live }} The Brough of Surrey Heath is twinned with Sucy-en-Brie, France and with Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.{{cite web |title= Town partnerships |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |url= https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/about-council/about-surrey-heath/town-partnerships |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 27 July 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230727081326/https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/about-council/about-surrey-heath/town-partnerships |url-status= live }}

The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The remaining households not accounted for above were temporary/caravans and shared households.

The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining percentage is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible percentage of households living rent-free).

Camberley's town centre is host to The Square shopping centre (previously called The Mall), controversially purchased by Surrey Heath Borough Council for £110 million in 2016.{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Graham |title=Surrey Heath stands by £110m purchase of Camberley centre |url=https://www.propertyweek.com/markets/surrey-heath-stands-by-110m-purchase-of-camberley-centre/5099706.article |access-date=25 January 2020 |publisher=Property Week |date=9 November 2018 |archive-date=25 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125130255/https://www.propertyweek.com/markets/surrey-heath-stands-by-110m-purchase-of-camberley-centre/5099706.article |url-status=live }} This is a late 1980s development anchored by rent free stores such as Sports Direct subsidiary House of Fraser. The High Street has a number of shops as well as bars and clubs, many of the latter being more recent additions. There are a number of secondary shopping streets including Park Street, Princess Way and parts of London Road, including the "Atrium" development. Camberley's town centre is suffering a decline in footfall and increases in vacancies as shoppers in affluent areas move their spending online and towards leisure and experience activities as opposed to traditional retail.

Major employers include Siemens, which moved its UK headquarters to the area in 2007. Burlington Group who moved into Watchmoor Park in 2009 and Sun Microsystems, until they were taken over by Oracle in 2010, whose UK headquarters was located just across the Hampshire border in Minley next to the M3 motorway at junction 4a.{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/20/oracle-buys-sun-microsystems |work= The Guardian |title= Oracle buys Sun Microsystems |date= 20 April 2009 |access-date= 19 February 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170202111152/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/apr/20/oracle-buys-sun-microsystems |archive-date=2 February 2017 }} Krispy Kreme UK are based in Albany Park, an industrial estate just outside Camberley in nearby Frimley.{{Cite web |url=http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/contact-us/ |title= Contact details for Krispy Kreme |access-date=14 October 2011 |archive-date=17 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017202602/http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/contact-us/ |url-status=live }}

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The York Town and Blackwater Gas Company was formed in 1859 and opened its gasworks at Yorktown in November 1862.{{harvnb|Thomas|2020|p=12}}{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=26}} Street lighting in Camberley was initially provided by oil lamps, but gas lamps were installed from 1900.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=41-42}} In around 1903, the works began to supply the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.{{harvnb|Thomas|2020|p=23}}{{refn|The earliest gas lights at the Royal Military College were installed in the mid-1850s, although the exact date is unknown. The college gasworks, on Marshall Road, closed in 1903 and thereafter gas was supplied from Yorktown.|group=note}} In 1904, a short branch line was laid from the South Eastern Railway south of Blackwater station, enabling the coal required to be supplied by train.{{harvnb|Mitchell|Smith|1988|loc=Fig. 59}} The works came under the control of the Southern Gas Board in 1949 and closed in 1969.

The electricity supply to the area was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1909. Unlike most towns in Surrey, Camberley did not have its own power station and instead, electricity was purchased on the wholesale market and was distributed locally. The gas and electricity companies merged in 1927.{{cite news |title= York Town and Blackwater gas and electricity |date= 26 November 1927 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CVII |issue= 8997 |page= 6 }}{{harvnb|Crocker|1999|p=119}}

The Frimley and Farnborough District Water Company was formed in 1893 and began to supply Camberley four years later. Water was extracted from the chalk aquifer and was piped to a filtration plant at Frimley Green, before being pumped to a service reservoir on Frith Hill.{{cite news |title= The Frimley and Farnborough District Water Bill |date= 4 February 1893 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= XXXVIII |issue= 8785 |page= 7 }}{{cite news |title= The health report |date= 20 February 1897 |work= Surrey Times and County Express |issue= 2317 |page= 2 }} In 1893, the Basingstoke Canal company agreed that the water company could abstract up to {{cvt|200000|impgal|l|order=flip}} per day from the canal, at a cost of 1 penny per {{cvt|1000|impgal|l|order=flip}}.{{harvnb|Vine|1994|p=140}} In 2023, the drinking water supply for Camberley is provided by South East Water.{{cite web |title= Who we are |publisher= South East Water |url= https://www.southeastwater.co.uk/about/who-we-are/ |access-date= 11 September 2023 |archive-date= 24 June 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230624181301/https://www.southeastwater.co.uk/about/who-we-are/ |url-status= live }}

Initially, wastewater from Camberley was disposed of in cesspits or discharged to local streams. In the mid-1880s a drainage system was installed, leading to a sewage farm at Yorktown.{{cite news |title= Sewage land |date= 5 November 1887 |work= Surrey Times and County Express |issue= 1765 |page= 3 }} Following a report in 1902, which condemned the state of the town sewers, new pipework was installed and a new wastewater treatment works opened in Yorktown in 1907.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=39}}{{harvnb|Crocker|1999|p=109}} In 2023, Camberley Sewage Treatment Works is operated by Thames Water.{{cite news |last= Luck |first= Flaminia |date= 3 August 2023 |title= Thames Water criticised as odour plagues residents |work= BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv21enejm8jo |access-date= 11 September 2023 |archive-date= 14 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230914104556/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv21enejm8jo |url-status= live }}{{cite news |last= Caulfield |first= Chris |date= 14 August 2023 |title= End in sight for Camberley neighbours plagued by foul smell of raw sewage all summer |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/end-sight-camberley-neighbours-plagued-27502668 |access-date= 11 September 2023 |archive-date= 16 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230816180611/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/end-sight-camberley-neighbours-plagued-27502668 |url-status= live }}

The postal service to Yorktown began in 1844{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=14}} and the first postmaster was appointed in 1890.{{harvnb|Clarke|2005|p=16}} The telephone service to Camberley commenced in April 1897.

The first police station was opened in 1892 on the corner of Portesbury Road and the High Street. In 1910, the local force had a total of eight officers.{{harvnb|Clarke|1988|loc=Fig. 6}} In 1971, the station moved to the east, but remained on Portesbury Road.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=104}} The 1971 station closed in 2011. The building was demolished in 2016 for the construction of new houses and flats.{{cite news |last= McEwan |first= Fergus |date= 16 September 2015 |title= Old Camberley police station to be knocked down for homes |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/old-camberley-police-station-knocked-10066163 |access-date= 17 August 2023 |archive-date= 2 December 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211202105256/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/old-camberley-police-station-knocked-10066163 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |last= MacLachlan |first= Kate |date= 15 August 2021 |title= Lost Surrey police stations that were demolished and what is there now |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/lost-surrey-police-stations-were-21304003 |access-date= 17 August 2023 |archive-date= 17 May 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220517143731/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/lost-surrey-police-stations-were-21304003 |url-status= live }} In 2023, the nearest police station to Camberley is at Aldershot, operated by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. The nearest counter service run by Surrey Police is at the Woking Borough Council offices.{{cite web |title= Camberley Town & St Pauls |date= June 2023 |publisher= Surrey Police |url= https://www.surrey.police.uk/area/your-area/surrey/surrey-heath/camberley-town--st-pauls/stations-contact-points-and-offices/top-reported-crimes-in-this-area |access-date= 17 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211052/https://www.surrey.police.uk/area/your-area/surrey/surrey-heath/camberley-town--st-pauls/stations-contact-points-and-offices/top-reported-crimes-in-this-area |url-status= live }}

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Camberley Fire Brigade was founded in May 1889 and was initially equipped with a hand-operated Merryweather pump. In 1900, the brigade moved to The Avenue and relocated to the current station in London Road in 1967.{{harvnb|Clarke|1988|loc=Fig. 65}}{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|page=91}} In 2023, the local fire authority is Surrey County Council and the statutory fire service is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.{{cite web |title= Our fire stations |date= 16 August 2023 |orig-date= 14 February 2022 |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/community/fire-and-rescue/fire-stations-and-events/fire-stations#camberley |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 8 September 2023 |archive-date= 20 March 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230320135127/http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/community/fire-and-rescue/fire-stations-and-events/fire-stations#camberley |url-status= live }}

An ambulance service is recorded in Camberley in 1898.{{cite news |title= Camberley Ambulance Branch |date= 1 October 1898 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= xlix |issue= 4621 |page= 5 }} Initially it operated with a horse-drawn vehicle, but the service was equipped with a motorised ambulance during the 1920s. Patients were charged a fee for using the service, which was affiliated to the St John Ambulance and the British Red Cross.{{harvnb|Barson|2007|pp=62-63}} In 2023, the nearest ambulance station to Camberley is at Farnborough.{{cite web |url= https://www.secamb.nhs.uk/our-locations/ |date= 19 July 2023 |orig-date= 26 October 2020 |title= Our Locations |publisher= South East Coast Ambulance Service |access-date= 8 September 2023 |archive-date= 10 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201110224056/https://www.secamb.nhs.uk/our-locations/ |url-status= live }}

In 2023, the nearest hospital is Frimley Park Hospital around {{cvt|1.4|mi|km}} from Camberley.{{cite web |title= Hospitals in Camberley |publisher= NHS |url= https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/hospital/results/Camberley?latitude=51.33936162325786&longitude=-0.7437724012843207} |access-date= 17 August 2023 }} There are three GP surgeries in the town, on Upper Gordon, Park and Frimley Roads.{{cite web |title= GP surgeries near GU15 3HD |publisher= NHS |url= https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp/results/GU15%203HD |access-date= 17 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211049/https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-gp/results/GU15%203HD |url-status= live }}

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Camberley railway station is immediately south of the town centre and is managed by South Western Railway, which operates all services. Trains run to {{rws|Ascot|Berkshire}} via {{rws|Bagshot}} (extended to and from London Waterloo during peak periods) and to {{rws|Aldershot}} via {{rws|Frimley}} (a few trains continue to {{rws|Guildford}}).{{cite web |title= Trains to Camberley station |publisher= South Western Railway |url= https://www.southwesternrailway.com/travelling-with-us/at-the-station/camberley |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 26 September 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220926083038/https://www.southwesternrailway.com/travelling-with-us/at-the-station/camberley |url-status= live }}{{cite web |title= Guildford to Farnham and Ascot via Aldershot |date= 4 September 2023 |orig-date= 4 July 2023 |publisher= South Western Railway |url= https://www.southwesternrailway.com/plan-my-journey/-/media/ef6b56d1453141b2aa8114fc3073772d.ashx |access-date= 17 September 2023 }}{{cbignore}} A 2017 infrastructure assessment commissioned by the borough council notes that rail journey times to London from Camberley are slow ({{circa|72|80}} minutes) and that many local residents choose to drive to {{rws|Brookwood}}, {{rws|Farnborough (Main)}} and {{rws|Sunningdale}} for faster, direct services.{{cite web |last1= Tuck |first1= Julia |last2= Cesbron |first2= Stephanie |date= December 2017 |title= Surrey Heath Infrastructure Needs Assessment : Part A - Baseline Report |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |url= https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023-05/Surrey%20Heath%20Infrastructure%20Needs%20Assessment%202017.pdf |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230917121333/https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023-05/Surrey%20Heath%20Infrastructure%20Needs%20Assessment%202017.pdf |url-status= live }}{{refn|The 2013 Surrey Rail Strategy identified the possibility of reinstating the Sturt Road Chord, allowing trains from Camberley to join the South West Main Line between Farnborough and Brookwook. A 2016 study noted that the rail infrastructure east of Woking was already operating at capacity in peak periods, meaning that, even if the junction was rebuilt, it might not be possible for trains from Surrey Heath to run direct to London Waterloo via this route.{{cite web |title= Camberley Rail Assessment |date= 1 February 2016 |publisher= Surrey County Council |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/136554/Camberley-Rail-Assessment-Report.compressed.pdf |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 20 January 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220120132137/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/136554/Camberley-Rail-Assessment-Report.compressed.pdf |url-status= live }}|group=note}} Blackwater railway station is immediately to the west of Yorktown and is managed by Great Western Railway, which operates all services. Trains run to {{rws|Reading}} via {{rws|Wokingham}} and to {{rws|Gatwick Airport}} via Guildford.{{cite web |title= Blackwater |publisher= Great Western Railway |url= https://www.gwr.com/stations-and-destinations/stations/blackwater |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 21 March 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230321042328/https://www.gwr.com/stations-and-destinations/stations/blackwater |url-status= live }}{{cite web |title= T9 train times |date= 30 May 2023 |orig-date= 19 April 2023 |publisher= Great Western Railway |url= https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/plan-journey/timetables/2023/Train-times-21-May-to-9-December-v3/T9-train-times-21-May-to-9-December-2023-v3.pdf |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 7 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230807112001/https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/plan-journey/timetables/2023/Train-times-21-May-to-9-December-v3/T9-train-times-21-May-to-9-December-2023-v3.pdf |url-status= live }}

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Camberley is linked by bus to local destinations in west Surrey, north-east Hampshire and south-east Berkshire. Companies operating routes through the town include: Thames Valley Buses to Bracknell; Arriva Guildford & West Surrey to Guildford via Woking; Stagecoach South to Aldershot and Farnborough; and White Bus to Ascot and Staines-upon-Thames.{{cite web |title=Blackwater Valley bus timetables |date=11 September 2023 |publisher=Surrey County Council |url=https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/buses-and-other-transport/bus-timetables/blackwater-valley |access-date=17 September 2023 |archive-date=8 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608042154/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/buses-and-other-transport/bus-timetables/blackwater-valley |url-status=live }}

The M3 runs to the south of Camberley and is accessed via junction 4 at the south-western corner of the town.{{cite web |title= Surrey Transport Plan: Surrey Health Local Transport Strategy |date= January 2015 |publisher= Surrey County Council |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/49385/LTP3-SHLTS_p1.pdf |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 16 May 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220516141421/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/49385/LTP3-SHLTS_p1.pdf |url-status= live }} The stretch of the motorway through the Borough of Surrey Heath was upgraded to a smart motorway in 2017.{{cite news |last= Ames |first= Chris |date= 3 July 2017 |title= Highways England says £174m M3 smart motorway project open on time |work= Transport Network |url= https://www.transport-network.co.uk/Highways-England-says-174m-M3-smart-motorway-project-open-on-time/14226 |url-access= registration |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 27 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210927125744/https://www.transport-network.co.uk/Highways-England-says-174m-M3-smart-motorway-project-open-on-time/14226 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |last= MacDougall |first= Lauren |date= 18 April 2023 |title= Should the M3 smart motorway in Surrey be scrapped? |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/should-m3-smart-motorway-surrey-26721825 |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 4 May 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230504073506/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/should-m3-smart-motorway-surrey-26721825 |url-status= live }} The other major roads in the town are the A30, which runs roughly parallel to the motorway between Hounslow and Basingstoke, and the A331 Blackwater Valley relief road. Yorktown and east Camberley are linked to Frimley by the B3411 and A325 respectively. Old Dean is linked to Deepcut via the B3015.

A £1.2M shared cycle and footpath between Blackwater station and Watchmoor was completed in 2017{{cite news |last= Dobinson |first= Isabel |date= 21 July 2017 |title= A331 cycle route: What you need to know about the controversial £1.2m bike path ahead of its launch |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/a331-cycle-route-what-you-13357015 |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 14 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210414023115/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/a331-cycle-route-what-you-13357015 |url-status= live }} and a new bike-parking facility opened in Princess Way in the town centre in 2021.{{cite news |title= Free to use bicycle parking facility opens in Camberley |date= 8 April 2021 |work= InYourArea |url= https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/free-to-use-bicycle-parking-facility-opens-in-camberley/ |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 29 April 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210429144542/https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/free-to-use-bicycle-parking-facility-opens-in-camberley/ |url-status= live }} In the same year, Surrey County Council consulted on a scheme to improve local cycling infrastructure, focused on a route between Camberley and Frimley.{{cite web |title= Camberley to Frimley Cycleway : About the scheme |url= https://camberleytofrimleycycleway.commonplace.is/overview |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-date= 17 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230917121336/https://camberleytofrimleycycleway.commonplace.is/overview |url-status= live }}

The first school to open in the Camberley area, a National school, was established in 1818. Originally housed in a cottage close to the Royal Military College, one of its early pupils was the composer, Arthur Sullivan. In 1871, it moved to a site adjacent to the St Michael's Church vicarage. By 1872, there was a second school in Yorktown, which may have been a school for nonconformists, although its origins are uncertain.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=32-33}}

The first Cordwalles School was founded in Elliot Place, Greenwich, in 1805 and one of its early pupils was the future prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli. In 1875, it moved to Cordwalls Farm, Maidenhead, from which it acquired its name. The school merged with Kingswood School, Camberley, which had been established on part of the former Collinwood Estate in 1910. In 1939, the school was evacuated to Market Drayton,{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|p=26}} but did not return to Camberley at the end of the war. The site was used by Ballard School in the 1950s.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=50}}{{cite news |title= Great Ballard, Camberley |date= 8 March 1961 |work= The Daily Telegraph |issue= 32934 |page= 27 }}

Barossa Secondary School began teaching its first pupils in September 1963, although the official opening ceremony did not take place for another two years.{{cite news |title= New school for autumn opening |date= 13 April 1963 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue= 12276 |page= 21 }}{{cite news |title= Two years for school to 'open' |date= 17 July 1965 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue= 12407 |page= 27 }} The secondary modern school, on the Old Dean estate, was constructed on a site adjacent to the former Ballard School.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=103}}

Frimley and Camberley Grammar School opened in 1931 on Frimley Road.{{cite news |title= Frimley's secondary school |date= 26 September 1931 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CXXV |issue= 9393 |page= 6 }}{{cite news |title= New secondary school at Frimley |date= 12 December 1931 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CXXV |issue= 9415 |page= 7 }} The school moved to the former Ballard School, adjacent to the then new Barossa Secondary School in 1967. The original site was then used as an annex for France until 1971. The buildings have since been used for Watchetts School, now South Camberley Primary and Nursery School.{{harvnb|Barson|2007|p=127}}

Kings International College was opened as France Hill Secondary School in 1947. For the first eleven years, it was based at Franz Hill House, which had been built {{circa|1840}}. The school moved to its current location on Watchetts Drive in 1959 and adopted its present name in 2001.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=93-94}}

Collingwood College was formed in 1971 from the merger of Camberley Grammar School, Barossa Secondary School and Bagshot Secondary School. It became a self-governing Technology College in September 1994 and gained Foundation status in September 1999.{{harvnb|Jackson|2004|pp=93-94}}

The current Cordwalles School was founded in 1962 and was officially opened on 5 March 1963. Initially a primary and infants school, it became a middle school in 1971, before reverting to a junior school again in 1994.

The Royal Albert Orphan Asylum was founded in Camberley in 1864 and the first 100 children were admitted in December of that year.{{cite web|url= http://www.raa-school.co.uk/timeline.asp |title= School Timeline |author= |year= 2021 |publisher= Royal Alexandra & Albert School |access-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102706/http://www.raa-school.co.uk/timeline.asp |url-status= live}} Originally a mixed institution, girls were not admitted after 1903.{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|pp=48-49}} It was renamed the Royal Albert School in 1942{{harvnb|Clarke|2005|p=35}} and its management was merged with that of the Royal Alexandra School in 1948. The following year, an Act of Parliament was passed to formally amalgamate the two institutions, creating The Royal Alexandra and Albert School. Pupils from both schools were transferred in stages from their original sites to new accommodation at Gatton Park between 1848 and 1954.{{cite web|url= http://www.raa-school.co.uk/timeline.asp |title= School Timeline |author= |year= 2021 |publisher= Royal Alexandra & Albert School |access-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102706/http://www.raa-school.co.uk/timeline.asp |url-status= live}} The former school buildings in Camberley were damaged by fire in 1987 and were demolished in 1994. The grounds were split in two by the construction of the M3.

Elmhurst Ballet School was founded as the Mortimer School of Dancing in 1923. It adopted its current name in 1947, taken from Elmhurst House in Camberley, where it was based.{{cite news |date= 3 July 2013 |orig-date= 12 August 2004 |title= Sadness as Elmhurst takes steps for final call |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/sadness-elmhurst-takes-steps-final-4849166 |access-date= 25 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211046/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/sadness-elmhurst-takes-steps-final-4849166 |url-status= live }} During the Second World War, Sadlers Wells and Rambert Schools were evacuated to Elmhurst and the pupils of all three schools performed to entertain soldiers billeted locally and to raise money for the war effort.{{harvnb|Rice|1998|pp=31-33}} After the end of the war, pupil numbers began to expand (from 60 in 1933 to 240 in 1947){{cite web |title= Celebrating 100 years of Elmhurst Ballet School |date= 3 October 2022 |url= https://www.elmhurstballetschool.org/en/celebrating-100-years-of-elmhurst-ballet-school |publisher= Elmhurst Ballet School |access-date= 15 September 2023 |archive-date= 16 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230916100636/https://www.elmhurstballetschool.org/en/celebrating-100-years-of-elmhurst-ballet-school |url-status= live }} and a purpose-built theatre was constructed, opening in May 1960.{{harvnb|Rice|1998|p=109}} Much of the rest of the school was rebuilt during the 1970s and the new buildings were opened by Princess Margaret in 1979.{{harvnb|Rice|1998|pp=163-164}} The school relocated to Birmingham in 2004, with the aim of providing professional dance training outside of the south-east of England. The former school site in Camberley was redeveloped as Elmhurst Court.{{cite web |date= 19 April 2018 |orig-date= 25 October 2011 |title= About |publisher= Elmhurst Court |url= https://elmhurst-court.co.uk/about/ |access-date= 25 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831212549/https://elmhurst-court.co.uk/about/ |url-status= live }}

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St Michael's Church was designed by the architect, Henry Woodyer, and is constructed in local Frimley stone. The foundation stone was laid in September 1848{{cite newspaper The Times |title= A new church consecrated |date= 6 October 1848 |issue= 19987 |page= 7}} and the church was consecrated in May 1851.{{cite web |title= History |publisher= St Michael's Camberley |url= https://www.stmichaelscamberley.com/history.htm |access-date= 26 September 2023 |archive-date= 4 December 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221204130858/https://www.stmichaelscamberley.com/history.htm |url-status= live }} The church was built as a nave only, but Woodyer's design incorporated masonry arches in the walls, which could be knocked through when the building was expanded. The chancel was added in 1858 by George Gilbert Scott and aisles were built to a design by Charles Buckeridge in 1864-65.{{harvnb|Elliott|Pritchard|2001|p=215}} The tower, in Bargate stone, was added in 1891, and is topped by a broach spire, which reaches a height of {{cvt|38|m|ft}} above ground level.{{NHLE |num= 1030037 |desc= Church of St Michael York Town |grade= II |fewer-links= yes}}{{harvnb|Clarke|1994|loc=Fig. 66}}

St Paul's Church was designed by W. D. Caröe in 1902 and elements of the building are influenced by Swedish architectural trends of the period. The chancel is topped by a wood-shingled spire. One of the stained-glass windows is dedicated to Doveton Sturdee, a local resident who died in 1925.{{NHLE |num= 1030068 |desc= Church of St Paul |grade= II |fewer-links= yes}}{{harvnb|Clarke|1988|loc=Fig. 72}}{{cite newspaper The Times |title= Memorial to Sir Doveton Sturdee |date= 17 August 1926 |issue= 44352 |page= 13}} St Mary's Church, designed by E. E. Lofting, was consecrated in 1937 and was built as a daughter church to St Paul's. The building has a small tower and is constructed of brick and concrete with a stucco finish.{{cite news |title= Dedication of new church |date= 24 December 1937 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CXXXVII |issue= 10039 |page= 7 }}

St Martin's Church, dedicated to Martin of Tours, was consecrated in 1978. The construction was paid for in part with money raised from the sale of the site of the former St George's Church, which had closed in 1966.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=99-100}} Proceeds from the sale of copies of the John Betjeman poem, A Subaltern's love song, which mentions Camberley, were also used to fund the building work.{{cite news |last= Steven |first= Cathy |date= 15 February 1977 |title= Poet knight aids parish in its plight |work= Aldershot News |issue= 4784 |page= 3}} The congregation of Heatherside Parish Church began meeting in January 1977. Heatherside became an ecclesiastical parish in September 2000.{{cite web |title= Genesis |url= https://heathersidechurch.org.uk/wp/church-history/genesis/ |publisher= Heatherside Parish Church |access-date= 5 September 2023 |archive-date= 5 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230905182916/https://heathersidechurch.org.uk/wp/church-history/genesis/ |url-status= live }}

St Tarcisius Church was built in 1923-26 as a memorial to Catholic military officers, who had died in the First World War. It was designed by Frederick Walters and is constructed of Bargate stone with Bath stone dressings. Several of the stained-glass windows were designed by Paul Woodroffe.{{NHLE |num= 1391327 |desc= Church of St Tarcisius |grade= II |fewer-links= yes}}

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High Cross Church opened in Knoll Road in March 1990.{{cite news |date= 20 March 1990 |title= New church brings unity |work= Camberley News |issue= 6240 |page= 1 }} It replaced the Congregational Church, which was demolished in 1990 to make way for the College Gardens shopping complex,{{cite news |last= Sparey |first= June |date= 27 February 1990 |title= Goodbye to an old friend : The church that stands in the heart of town |work= Camberley Mail |issue= 6234 |page= 12 }} and the Methodist Church, demolished in October of the same year.{{cite news |title= Another piece of history set to disappear |date= 19 October 1990 |work= Camberley News |issue= 6300 |page= 2}}

The local Bengali Welfare Association established an Islamic centre in the former St Gregory's Roman Catholic School building in 1996.{{cite news |title= From old Victorian school to Islamic centre |date= 2 July 2013 |orig-date= 4 March 2010 |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/old-victorian-school-islamic-centre-4820512 |access-date= 5 September 2023 |archive-date= 5 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230905182926/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/old-victorian-school-islamic-centre-4820512 |url-status= live }} In 2010, a planning application to demolish the school and replace it with a purpose-built mosque was rejected by the borough council.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8561342.stm|title=Camberley mosque plan rejected by council|work=BBC News|date=11 March 2010|access-date=24 November 2012|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122220312/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/8561342.stm|url-status=live}} The plans were rejected again the following year, following a public inquiry.{{cite news |title= Camberley mosque plan rejected by planning inspector |date= 21 June 2011 |work= BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-13857985 |access-date= 5 September 2023 |archive-date= 5 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230905182915/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-13857985 |url-status= live }}

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Camberley Theatre, in Knoll Road, opened as the Camberley Civic Hall on 1 October 1966.{{cite news |title= Camberley's new Civic Hall |date= 11 June 1966 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue= 12452 |page= 26 }} It closed in May 1995 for a £1.3M refurbishment and reopened as Camberley ArtsLink in November of the same year.{{cite news |last= Smith |first= Geoff |date= 24 March 1995 |title= How will the Civic Hall face up to the future? |work= Camberley News |issue= 6752 |page= 2}}{{cite news |title= Artslink is open |date= 10 November 1995 |work= Camberley News |issue= 6817 |page= 1 }} In December 2001, the venue was again rebranded, adopting its current name. A second refurbishment, involving the rebuilding of the frontage, was completed in December 2021.{{cite news |title= Mayor of Surrey Heath cuts ribbon at refurbished Camberley Theatre |date= 22 December 2021 |work= InYourArea |url= https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/mayor-of-surrey-heath-cuts-ribbon-at-refurbished-camberley-theatre/ |access-date= 16 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211048/https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/mayor-of-surrey-heath-cuts-ribbon-at-refurbished-camberley-theatre/ |url-status= live }}

There are several works of public art in Camberley. The Concrete Elephant, adjacent to the London Road in Yorktown, was installed at the yard of Trollope & Colls in 1964. It had been commissioned for the Lord Mayor's Show the previous year and the artist, Barbara Jones, designed the sculpture using pipework from the company's product range.{{cite news |last= Chapple |first= James |date= 28 November 2013 |orig-date= 27 November 2013 |title= Concrete elephant's 50th birthday trumpeted in Camberley |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/concrete-elephants-50th-birthday-trumpeted-6347851 |access-date= 2 May 2022 |archive-date= 2 May 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220502221003/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/concrete-elephants-50th-birthday-trumpeted-6347851 |url-status= live }}{{cite web |title= The Concrete Elephant |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |url=https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/residents/surrey-heath-museum/local-history-research-ancestry/concrete-elephant |access-date=2 May 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171210112237/https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/residents/surrey-heath-museum/local-history-research-ancestry/concrete-elephant |archive-date= 10 December 2017 }} The current tenants of the site, HSS Hire, are required to maintain the artwork as part of their lease.

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Into Our First World, by Ken Ford, was unveiled outside the borough council offices in March 1993. The sculpture, cast in silicon bronze, depicts a figure reclining beneath a tree. It explores the relationship between humanity and the natural world, and its form echoes the sweet chestnut tree growing behind it.{{cite web |title= Sculpture at Surrey Heath House |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |url= https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/residents/sport-leisure-parks/surrey-heath-museum/sculpture-surrey-heath-house |access-date= 4 January 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230104184344/https://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/residents/sport-leisure-parks/surrey-heath-museum/sculpture-surrey-heath-house |archive-date= 4 January 2023 }} The Right Way, by Rick Kirby was unveiled outside the Atrium in January 2009. It depicts three metal figures pointing in different directions along Park Street and Obelisk Way.{{cite web |url= http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/news/news.htm?mode=10&pk_news=587 |date= 13 January 2013 |title= Public Art shows Camberley is 'The Right Way' to go |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |access-date= 14 January 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140812213707/http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/news/news.htm?mode=10&pk_news=587 |archive-date= 12 August 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last= Williams |first= Matthew |date= 28 July 2014 |title= Public sculptures in Surrey : 10 of the best |work= Great British Life |url= https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/22592261.public-sculptures-surrey---10-best/ |access-date= 17 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211048/https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/22592261.public-sculptures-surrey---10-best/ |url-status= live }}

The London Road Recreation Ground opened in 1898 and was extended in 1931.{{harvnb|Clarke|2000|p=43}} During the early 19th century, the area had been used as a plant nursery{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=10}} until its purchase by the UDC in the 1890s.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=45-46}} Watchetts Recreation Ground was part of the Watchetts House estate until 1927, when it was bought by the UDC.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=79-80}} The ground was officially opened on 16 May 1931.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=84-85}}

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Until the 1990s, Crabtree Park was a rubbish dump. The landfill site was closed, the waste was capped and the area reopened as a recreation ground. The skate park was reopened in 2014, following a £25,000 refurbishment project.{{cite news |last= Chapple |first= James |date= 22 April 2014 |title= Youth council celebrates Camberley skate park revival |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/camberley-crabtree-park-skate-part-6950342 |access-date= 24 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211048/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/camberley-crabtree-park-skate-part-6950342 |url-status= live }}

Until the mid-1930s, Camberley residents used the Blackwater River to swim. The first purpose-built pool, the Blue Pool, was built on the London Road by a private company and opened in May 1934.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=84}} The borough council took over the facility in 1973, but it closed three years later when essential repair works were found to be financially unviable.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|pp=115-116}} The Manor House flats were built on the site of the Blue Pool in the early 1980s.{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|p=106}}

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The Arena Leisure Centre was built on the north-eastern corner of the London Road Recreation Ground and opened in November 1984.{{cite news |title= Pool ends 60 years of waiting |date= 20 November 1984 |work = Camberley News and Mail |issue= 5717 |page= 1 }} The facility closed in August 2019 and was demolished.{{cite web |title= Mid-year update |date= 7 November 2019 |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |url= https://surreyheath.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s16524/07b%20Annual%20Plan%20Mid%20Year%20Performance%20Report%20Annex.pdf |access-date= 16 August 2023 |archive-date= 1 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230901165102/https://surreyheath.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s16524/07b%20Annual%20Plan%20Mid%20Year%20Performance%20Report%20Annex.pdf |url-status= live }} The new Arena Leisure Centre, on the same site as the previous centre, opened in July 2021. It has two swimming pools, a gym and three exercise studios. The centre is owned by the borough council and is operated by Places Leisure on a 25-year design, build, operate and maintain contract.{{cite news |last= Walker |first= Tom |date= 2 July 2021 |title= Places Leisure opens £22m Camberley leisure centre with extensive health and wellness facilities |work= Sports Management |url= https://www.sportsmanagement.co.uk/Sports-news/latest/Places-Leisure-opens-22m-Camberley-leisure-centre/348047 |access-date= 16 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831231649/https://www.sportsmanagement.co.uk/Sports-news/latest/Places-Leisure-opens-22m-Camberley-leisure-centre/348047 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |title= New state-of-the-art leisure centre opens in Camberley |date= 7 July 2021 |work= InYourArea |url= https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/new-state-of-the-art-leisure-centre-opens-in-camberley/ |access-date= 16 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211047/https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/new-state-of-the-art-leisure-centre-opens-in-camberley/ |url-status= live }}

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Camberley Town Football Club joined the Surrey Football Association in January 1896 and is thought to have been founded the previous year. It began as part of the St Michael’s Club, the social club associated with St Michael’s Church. The team was initially referred to as St Michael’s, Camberley and played its home games on meadow land in King’s Ride. The first recorded match took place in October 1896, against a team from the Royal Military College. By late 1900, the club was under financial pressure and was refounded as Camberley and Yorktown F. C. in January 1897.{{cite web |title= Club History |publisher= Camberley Town F. C. |url= https://www.camberleytownfc.co.uk/history |access-date= 24 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220522235727/https://www.camberleytownfc.co.uk/history |archive-date= 22 May 2022 |url-status= live }} After two decades of moving between temporary home grounds, the club was established at Krooner Park in 1922.

The first cycling club to be founded in the area is recorded in a local directory of 1889. By 1904, the Camberley Wheelers had been formed and was organising meetings at the London Road Recreation Ground. In 1969, the club merged with Farnborough Cycling Club to form the Farnborough & Camberley Cycling Club.{{cite web |title= History |date= 24 February 2023 |orig-date= 7 January 2018 |publisher= Farnborough & Camberley Cycling Club |url= https://www.fccc.org.uk/history/ |access-date= 24 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220625201541/https://www.fccc.org.uk/history/ |archive-date= 25 June 2022 |url-status= live }}

File:Camberley RFC pavilion, Watchetts Recreation Ground, Camberley, Surrey.jpg

Camberley Rugby Football Club was founded in 1931 and played its first game at Watchetts Recreation Ground in October of that year.{{harvnb|Stone|1981|p=13}} The club affiliated to the Surrey Rugby Football Union in 1933{{cite news |title= Camberley Rugby Club to be affiliated to Surrey Rugby Union |date= 2 September 1933 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= XXIX |issue= 9593 |page= 9}} and, like most other local teams, disbanded in September 1939.{{harvnb|Stone|1981|p=16}} During the Second World War, the recreation ground was used to grow potatoes and it was not until the autumn of 1947 that club was able to resume.{{harvnb|Stone|1981|p=19}} Initially Camberley R.F.C. had use of the cricket pavilion as tenants of the cricket club, but constructed their own clubhouse in 1970.{{harvnb|Stone|1981|p=35}} In March 1973, the first team won the Surrey Cup.{{cite news |title= Congratulations Camberley! Ice cool Gibson right on target in a thriller |date= 16 March 1973 |work= Camberley News }}

Camberley Heath Golf Club was designed by Harry Colt{{cite news |last= Dudley |first= Sean |date= 3 April 2014 |title= Frank Pont to oversee restoration of Camberley Heath Golf Club course |work= Golf Course Architecture |url= https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/frank-pont-to-oversee-restoration-of-camberley-heath-golf-club-course |access-date= 12 September 2023 |archive-date= 16 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230916100638/https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/frank-pont-to-oversee-restoration-of-camberley-heath-golf-club-course |url-status= live }} and was formally opened by Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein on 1 January 1914.{{cite news |title= Opening of the Camberley Heath club |date= 1 January 1914 |work= Evening Standard |issue= 27916 |page= 16 }} A project to regenerate the course, reinstating some of the original bunker designs, was undertaken in the mid-2010s.{{cite news |last= Lawrence |first= Adam |date= 1 December 2014 |title= First phase of restoration works are completed at Camberley Heath |work= Golf Course Architecture |url= https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/first-phase-of-restoration-works-are-completed-at-camberley-heath |access-date= 12 September 2023 |archive-date= 16 September 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230916100637/https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/first-phase-of-restoration-works-are-completed-at-camberley-heath |url-status= live }} In 2020, the course was used as a location for third series of the BBC television drama, Killing Eve.{{Cite news |last=Strudwick |first=Matt |date=16 January 2020 |title=Killing Eve season three spotted filming at Surrey golf club |work=Surrey Live |url=https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/killing-eve-season-three-spotted-17576757 |access-date=14 July 2020 |archive-date=14 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714222326/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/killing-eve-season-three-spotted-17576757 |url-status=live }}

By the mid-1860s, there were two cricket teams in the area, one for Yorktown and one for Cambridge Town, and a match is recorded between the two in June 1865.{{cite news |title= Cambridge Town v. York Town |date= 10 June 1865 |work= Surrey Advertiser |issue= 51 |page= 2 }} They had merged by 1882, when the name "Camberley Cricket Club" was adopted.{{cite news |title= Cricket club meeting |date= 21 January 1882 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= XVIII |issue= 2000 |page= 8 }} The club shut down at the start of the First World War, but was refounded in 1929 and began playing its home games at the Watchetts Recreation Ground the following year.{{cite news |title= The future of sport in Camberley |date= 7 September 1929 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CXXI |issue= 9181 |page= 11 }}{{cite news |title= Cricket club to arrange away matches |date= 14 September 1929 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CXXI |issue= 9183 |page= 13 }} Local cricket again ceased at the start of the Second World War, but a new club was founded in 1944 and the first match was played the following year.{{cite web |title= Club history |publisher= Camberley Cricket Club |url= https://www.camberleycc.co.uk/a/club-history-46236.html |access-date= 24 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221109151419/https://www.camberleycc.co.uk/a/club-history-46236.html |archive-date= 9 November 2022 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |title= Club gets ready for resumption of play |date= 10 March 1945 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue= 10537 |page= 5}}{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=106}} A new ground was leased from the Watchetts estate and the first home games were played there in 1951.{{cite news |title= Cricketers plan "best ground for miles" |date= 21 January 1950 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue=10915 |page= 13 }} The ground was officially opened in 1952 and was bought by the club the following year.{{cite news |title= New cricket ground |date= 28 June 1952 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue= 11167 |page= 3 }}{{cite news |title= Cricket club makes steady progress |date= 5 December 1953 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |issue= 11316 |page= 2 }} Over the next three decades, the club sold off part of the land surrounding the ground to fund improvements to the pitch and pavilion. The first girls' team was launched in 2013.

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The first hockey club in Camberley was formed in 1898 and, by 1907, there were two clubs in the town.{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=85}} The present Camberley and Farnborough Hockey Club was founded in the 1950s{{cite web |title= About our club |publisher= Camberley and Farnborough Hockey Club |url= https://www.candfhockey.co.uk/about |access-date= 25 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211048/https://www.candfhockey.co.uk/about |url-status= live }} and plays its home games at Kings International College.{{cite web |title= Camberley and Farnborough Hockey Club |publisher= Camberley and Farnborough Hockey Club |url= https://www.candfhockey.co.uk/ |access-date= 25 August 2023 |archive-date= 18 April 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230418231808/https://www.candfhockey.co.uk/ |url-status= live }} There are two tennis clubs in the area: Camberley Lawn Tennis Club is based at Southcote Park, which has five all-weather courts;{{cite web |title= About us |publisher= Camberley Lawn Tennis Club |url= https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/CamberleyLawnTennisClub |access-date= 25 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211047/https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/CamberleyLawnTennisClub |url-status= live }} Frimley Tennis Club is based at Watchetts Recreation Ground and has four outdoor courts.{{cite web |title= Contact |year= 2022 |publisher= Frimley Tennis Club |url= https://frimleytennisclub.org/contact/ |access-date= 25 August 2023 |archive-date= 5 June 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230605094924/https://frimleytennisclub.org/contact/ |url-status= live }}

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File:Hassell-Obelisk.jpg, dated 1812{{Cite web |title=The Obelisk |publisher= Surrey Heath Borough Council |date= 26 January 2013 |url= http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/leisureactivitiesinsurreyheath/obelisk.htm |access-date=29 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130126225044/http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/leisure/leisureactivitiesinsurreyheath/obelisk.htm |archive-date= 26 January 2013 }}]]

The Camberley Obelisk is a square brick tower in the grounds of St Tarcissius School. Local legend states that it was built by John Norris {{circa|1750|1770}},{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|p=10}}{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=2}} although Historic England gives a construction date of {{circa|1841}}.{{NHLE |num= 1377520 |desc= Remains of obelisk in grounds of St Tarcissius School |grade= II |fewer-links= yes }} Originally the tower is thought to have been {{cvt|30|m|ft|-1}} tall, but only the lower third remains standing. It may have been built as a folly or as a signalling tower.

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The Staff College, to the north of Camberley town centre, is part of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, which provides training and education for established officers in the British Armed Forces and civil servants in the Ministry of Defence. The institution has its origins in the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, which was founded in 1799. It moved to Farnham in 1813, relocating seven years later to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. The Staff College building was designed by James Pennethorne and constructed in 1862. It was primarily built using London stock bricks, although the front elevation is partially faced with stone.{{NHLE |num= 1030033 |desc= The Staff College |grade= II |fewer-links= yes }} The uppermost storey was added in 1913.{{harvnb|Clarke|1995|p=86}}

Camberley War Memorial was erected in 1922 at the southern entrance to the Royal Military Academy. It takes the form of a Latin cross, carved from granite. The names of 233 people who died in the First World War are recorded on two columns at the base of the cross and 140 who died in the Second World War are listed on four piers at the corners of the plinth.{{NHLE |num= 1464742 |desc= Camberley Memorial Cross |grade= II |fewer-links= yes }}{{harvnb|Clarke|2000|p=40}} A stone, set into the pavement at the foot of the memorial, commemorates Victoria Cross recipient Garth Walford, who was born in Yorktown in 1882 and who died at Gallipoli in 1915.{{cite news |last= McEwan |first= Fergus |date= 11 November 2015 |title= Remembrance memorial stone unveiled to Victoria Cross recipient from Camberley |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/remembrance-memorial-stone-unveiled-victoria-10424377 |access-date= 17 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211049/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/remembrance-memorial-stone-unveiled-victoria-10424377 |url-status= live }}

{{main|List of people from Camberley}}

File:Bust_of_John_Pennycuick,_memorial_garden,_London_Road_Recreation_Ground,_Camberley,_Surrey.jpg, installed in the memorial garden at the London Road Recreation Ground in 2022{{cite news |last= Natarajan |first= Swaminathan |date= 8 September 2022 |title= John Pennycuick: The British-era colonel revered in Tamil Nadu |language= en-GB |work= BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62816672 |access-date= 16 September 2023 |archive-date= 13 June 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230613103541/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62816672 |url-status= live }}]]

• John Pennycuick (1841{{endash}}1911) engineer {{endash}} died in Camberley{{cite news |last= Dobinson |first= Isabel |date= 16 July 2017 |title= Meet the man who helped save the lives of millions as a dam builder in India - and the filmmaker trying to trace his family |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/man-who-helped-save-lives-13316474 |access-date= 16 September 2023 |archive-date= 21 May 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220521223530/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalgia/man-who-helped-save-lives-13316474 |url-status= live }}
• Arthur Sullivan (1842{{endash}}1900) composer {{endash}} lived in Camberley between the ages of three and fifteen, and attended York Town School until the age of eight. He wrote The Golden Legend at Camberley in 1886{{harvnb|Bennett|2009|p=14}}
• Hosea Ballou Morse (1855{{endash}}1934) historian of China {{endash}} lived in Camberley from 1914 until his death{{cite ODNB |last= Smith |first= Richard J. |date= 23 September 2004 |title= Morse, Hosea Ballou (1855–1934), customs official and historian of China |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/54361 }}
• Doveton Sturdee (1859{{endash}}1925) lived in Camberley{{cite ODNB |last= Lambert |first= Andrew |date= 23 September 2004 |title= Sturdee, Sir Frederick Charles Doveton, first baronet (1859–1925), naval officer |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/36364 }}
• Vaughan Cornish (1862{{endash}}1948) geographer {{endash}} lived and died in Camberley{{cite ODNB |last= Matless |first= David |date= 28 September 2006 |title= Cornish, Vaughan (1862–1948), geographer |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/32573 }}
• Charles Wellington Furse (1868{{endash}}1904) artist {{endash}} lived in Camberley from 1900 until his death{{cite ODNB |last= McConkey |first= Kenneth |date= 23 September 2004 |title= Furse, Charles Wellington (1868–1904), painter |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/33299 }}
• Frederick Twort (1877{{endash}}1950) microbiologist {{endash}} born, lived and died in Camberley{{cite ODNB |last= Dyke |first= K. G. H. |date= 23 September 2004 |title= Twort, Frederick William (1877–1950), microbiologist |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/38084 }}{{cite newspaper The Times |title= Mr F.W. Twort |date= 23 March 1950 |issue= 51647 |page= 8}}
• Rick Wakeman (b. 1949) musician {{endash}} lived in Camberley in the 1980s and was vice-president of Camberley Town F. C.{{cite news |last= McEwan |first= Fergus |date= 8 May 2016 |work= Surrey Live |title= Watch Rick Wakeman's alternative birthday message as Camberley Theatre turns 50 |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/watch-rick-wakemans-alternative-birthday-11290816 |access-date= 24 August 2023 |archive-date= 31 August 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230831211048/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/watch-rick-wakemans-alternative-birthday-11290816 |url-status= live }}
• George Saville (b. 1993) footballer {{endash}} born in Camberley{{cite web |title=George Saville |url= http://www.chelseafc.com/under21s-article/article/2567316 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130112233304/http://www.chelseafc.com/under21s-article/article/2567316 |archive-date=12 January 2013 |publisher=Chelsea F.C.|access-date=2 March 2013 |url-status= dead }}
• Simone Ashley (b. 1995) actress {{endash}} born in Camberley{{cite news |last= Clarke |first= Chloe |date= 28 September 2021 |title= Simone Ashley: The Surrey actress starring in Sex Education and Bridgerton series 2 |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/simone-ashley-surrey-actress-starring-21688307 |access-date= 18 August 2023 |archive-date= 27 December 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221227203144/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/simone-ashley-surrey-actress-starring-21688307 |url-status= live }}
• Camberley Kate (1895 - 1979) dog fancier and eccentric - lived and died in Camberley

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