What is "tongham"

Tongham is a Surrey village across a narrow double divide from the easterly park and business estate of the town of Aldershot, north-east Hampshire. The village's buildings occupy most of the west of the civil parish, adjoining the A31 and the A331. The boundaries take in Poyle Park in the east and the replacement to Runfold's manor house in the west.

Aldershot is centred west. As Tongham commences immediately on the north half of the Hog's Back, the thinnest part of the North Downs, the largest independent brewery in Surrey (the Hogs Back Brewery) takes its name from this eminence as does the Hog's Back Hotel. Tongham was the home of 'Aldershot Stadium' (1950–1992) which hosted primarily greyhound racing, stock car racing and speedway and the village was mentioned in the futuristic dystopian novel Brave New World.