New Haw is a village in Surrey which has a minor railway station on the South Western Main Line shared with Byfleet.
New Haw stands on an irregular south-west border close to Woking, the River Wey, the start of the Basingstoke Canal, and the River Bourne. The Wey Navigation rises through three steep locks in the relatively short New Haw section.
"Haw" is an old word for "lock gate", and it is possible that New Haw developed following the installation of the "new" lock gate in 1653, near The White Hart pub. The Grade II Listed New Haw lock-keeper’s cottage dates from 1782 but was heavily rebuilt with steel strengthening beams added above the ground floor windows after a gas explosion and fire in 1982. It appeared as Mr. Bedford’s "Cherry Cottage" in the 1964 science-fiction film First Men in the Moon, based loosely on the H.G. Wells novel of the same title published in 1901.
The original village was a hamlet of Woking, around Crockford Park Farm, bordering Addlestone. The village centre lies around the junction of Woodham Lane and the Scotland Bridge Road roundabout and on the northwest side of the latter, until recently, a well-established motor vehicle sales business occupied an original 1930s garage, petrol station and workshop known for many years as "Woodham Motors".
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New Haw is a village in Surrey which has a minor railway station on the South Western Main Line shared with Byfleet.
