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Description: | A gold and black sign on top of a black painted decorative post, like a lamppost, matching the other lampposts along the street. The picture and lettering on the sign are embossed and picked out in gold, and both sides are the same. At the top is the old name of the village with fern leaves beneath; the modern name is across the centre, with a coach and four horses, with passengers, depicted beneath. The sign has a shaped edge and a gold line It is set on the edge of a paved island planted with trees and flower beds, with an information board close by. Faces E/W Additional Information: The village of Farnborough whose name derives from Fearnbiorginga, meaning the village among the ferns on the hill'. The sign commemorates this with the fern motif. In later years the village was a staging post on the main London to Hastings road, and the George Pub is on the site of the old coaching inn which is known to have existed in the seventeenth century. The Change of Horses was also a coaching inn. Farnborough continued to be on the main route until 1927 when the A21 by-pass was built.(1) | Subjects: | Village sign | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Other: Furnitubes International | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6989... | Go to resource |
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