The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Albury, in 1924
Photographic Survey and Record of Surrey no. 8955

Albury is situated in the gentle rolling scenery of the Tillingbourne Valley, west of Shere.

Albury Park, c.1955
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection

Albury Park is a Grade I English Heritage Registered Park of Special Historic Interest. The manor house was refashioned in the 17th century by John and George Evelyn for the Duke of Norfolk, at the same time as the gardens.

The building was remodelled by Pugin, mostly in 1846-52.

Farley Heath, in Albury, was once the site of a Romano-Celtic temple. It was excavated by Lowther and Goodchild in 1939 following excavations by Tupper in 1848 and Winbolt in 1926.

The temple was 46ft square, enclosed by a 'temenos' wall about 240ft in diameter. The finds included a Celtic priest's sceptre, British gold coins of Verica, Epaticcus and Tincommius and a silver coin of Epaticcus. A hoard of 50 Roman coins varying from Tiberius to Arcadius and pottery of similar date was also unearthed. Further excavations by Surrey County Archaeological Unit for English Heritage on the site of the Roman temple established how much damage was being caused following repeated disturbance by metal detectorists.

Flintwork of predominantly Neolithic date and pottery of Bronze Age or Iron Age date indicates some earlier activities on the site, but no pits or postholes were discovered, indicating that the temple is most unlikely to have replaced a prehistoric structure.