Skip to content

Old Cranleighan Society

  • Home
  • News
  • Features
  • About the OCs
  • OCS Committee
  • OC Society Network
  • Calendar
  • OC Sports
    • OC Cricket Club
    • OC Football Club
    • OC Golf Society
    • OC Hockey Club
    • OC Netball Club
    • OC Rifle Club
    • OC Rugby Club
    • OC Sailing Club
    • OC Squash Club
    • OC Tennis Club
  • OC Societies
    • City Society
    • Lawyers’ Society
    • Livery Association
    • Lodge
    • Media Society
    • Shipping Club
    • Surveyors’ Club
  • OC Club
  • Online Shop
  • History
  • Contact Us
Old Cranleighan Society
  • Cranleigh School
  • Cranleigh Prep
  • OC Club

Category: Features

Features

Explaining Cranleigh’s crest

Martin | January 20, 2025 | Features, History

The School receives regular requests concerning the origins of the Cranleigh crest, what the various components on it mean, and how it has changed over the years. This article should help explain it all […]

Read More…

Posted in Features, History

Cranleigh’s 11 Olympians

cranleighschooladmin | July 29, 2024 | Features

As Izzy Petter (2&3 South 2018) and Will Calnan (Cubitt 2014) take part in the Paris Olympics we look at the nine Cranleighans who became summer Olympians before them […]

Read More…

Posted in Features

D-Day forty years on

Martin | June 6, 2024 | Features, History

On June 6, 1984, Cranleigh held a parade to mark the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Alan Smith wrote about it in that year’s Cranleighan […]

Read More…

Posted in Features, History

‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’

Martin | June 5, 2024 | Features, History

While much has been written about the secrecy that surrounded the D-Day landings, the boys at Cranleigh were among the first in the country to know the invasion had started on June 6, 1944 […]

Read More…

Posted in Features, History

A tragic and futile incident

Martin | June 4, 2024 | Features, History

Much will be written in the coming days about those involved in the D-Day landings. Among the 1,449 British combatants who died on June 6th 1944 few stories are quite as sad as that of 24-year-old Private Philip Sargent […]

Read More…

Posted in Features, History

Juurnee

Martin | February 21, 2024 | Features

During her time at Cranleigh Rachel Crampton (West 2004) made friends for life […]

Read More…

Posted in Features

The Hilltop Kitchen

Martin | June 22, 2023 | Features, News

Alex Winch (Cubitt 2007) and his business partner Sam Fiddian-Green have created the hugely popular Hilltop Kitchen in between Hascombe and Godalming in the Surrey Hills […]

Read More…

Posted in Features, News

Forging Futures

Martin | March 27, 2023 | Features

OCs Tom and Osha Hufton have opened a lovely social enterprise cafe in Shamley Green […]

Read More…

Posted in Features

Abi Ratoff

Martin | November 2, 2022 | Features

Abi Ratoff (South 2017) is an illustrator based in Horsham and London who now works mainly in digital illustration […]

Read More…

Posted in Features

Frank Dove

Martin | October 24, 2022 | Features

We mark Black History Month by looking at Frank Dove (1 North 1915) who was one of the first black British Olympians and who won a medal for bravery in World War One […]

Read More…

Posted in Features

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Forthcoming Events

  • 11 Oct 26 - Over 70s Lunch
After 157 years of the familiar benches in the Dining Hall it has been given a new look and the dias at the far end has been removed. It was on that that the first school play was staged in 1874 and it hosted all major drama productions for the next 30 years There were four OCs playing for Blackheath in the National Village final at Lord's at the weekend - Benji Arengo-Jones (Loveday 2021), Luca La Costa (Cubitt 2021), James Fortesque (East 2025) and Archie Freeth (North 2021). A large turnout of Cranleigh parents and OCs turned out to watch but unfortunately Blackheath lost All change in Hall ... The golf course looking rather parched .... August 2026 Cranleigh Live outdoors on the South Field on a glorious June evening Cranleigh celebrated its 160th anniversary with a memorable concert at GLive in Guildford last Saturday, featuring a unique ensemble of current and former pupils, parents and staff. Congratulations to Adam Thomas (Loveday 2024) on his hundred on his Championship debut for Surrey v Sussex at The Oval. Team-mate Dom Sibley said: "All the senior guys out there can tell you how composed he was; obviously, his technique was so strong, so to see him go out there and play really well, to convert that into a hundred as well, and the way he went through the gears was so impressive. I'm sure that's going to be the first of many for AT." One of Cranleigh School’s most iconic and oldest landmarks disappeared last week with the felling of Clare’s Oak on Jubilee.
  • Home
  • About the OCs
  • Calendar
  • Contact Info Survey
  • Contact Us
  • Events
  • History
  • Magazines
  • News
  • OC Club
  • OCS Committee
  • Old Cranleighan Societies
    • OC Ling-Cow (Shipping) Club
    • OC Livery Association
    • OC Lodge
    • OC Media Society
    • OC Surveyors’ Club
    • Old Cranleighan City Society
    • Old Cranleighan Lawyers’ Society
  • Old Cranleighan Sports Clubs
    • Old Cranleighan Cricket Club
    • Old Cranleighan Football Club
    • Old Cranleighan Golf Society
    • Old Cranleighan Hockey Club
    • Old Cranleighan Netball Club
    • Old Cranleighan Rifle Club
    • Old Cranleighan Rugby Club
    • Old Cranleighan Sailing Club
    • Old Cranleighan Squash Club
    • Old Cranleighan Tennis Club
  • Online Shop
  • Test
  • Change Password
  • Update Details
  • Home
  • About the OCs
  • Calendar
  • Contact Info Survey
  • Contact Us
  • Events
  • History
  • Magazines
  • News
  • OC Club
  • OCS Committee
  • Old Cranleighan Societies
    • OC Ling-Cow (Shipping) Club
    • OC Livery Association
    • OC Lodge
    • OC Media Society
    • OC Surveyors’ Club
    • Old Cranleighan City Society
    • Old Cranleighan Lawyers’ Society
  • Old Cranleighan Sports Clubs
    • Old Cranleighan Cricket Club
    • Old Cranleighan Football Club
    • Old Cranleighan Golf Society
    • Old Cranleighan Hockey Club
    • Old Cranleighan Netball Club
    • Old Cranleighan Rifle Club
    • Old Cranleighan Rugby Club
    • Old Cranleighan Sailing Club
    • Old Cranleighan Squash Club
    • Old Cranleighan Tennis Club
  • Online Shop
  • Test
  • Change Password
  • Update Details

The Cranleighan Room, Cranleigh School, Horseshoe Lane, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8QQ

Telephone: 01483 542135 | Email: vli@cranleigh.org

© Copyright Old Cranleighan Society 2026

  • Home
  • About the OCs
  • Calendar
  • Contact Info Survey
  • Contact Us
  • Events
  • History
  • Magazines
  • News
  • OC Club
  • OCS Committee
  • Old Cranleighan Societies
    • OC Ling-Cow (Shipping) Club
    • OC Livery Association
    • OC Lodge
    • OC Media Society
    • OC Surveyors’ Club
    • Old Cranleighan City Society
    • Old Cranleighan Lawyers’ Society
  • Old Cranleighan Sports Clubs
    • Old Cranleighan Cricket Club
    • Old Cranleighan Football Club
    • Old Cranleighan Golf Society
    • Old Cranleighan Hockey Club
    • Old Cranleighan Netball Club
    • Old Cranleighan Rifle Club
    • Old Cranleighan Rugby Club
    • Old Cranleighan Sailing Club
    • Old Cranleighan Squash Club
    • Old Cranleighan Tennis Club
  • Online Shop
  • Test
  • Change Password
  • Update Details