The present Christchurch ward in Guildford was created following the recommendation of the Boundary Commission review in1975 and came into being the following year. It includes the large area of Stoke Park, Guildford town’s biggest open space. 

It includes both of Guildford's leading girls' schools, Guildford High School and Tormead School. The High School moved into its London Road home in 1893, and has expanded the site since. Tormead school had a number of homes before moving into the turn-of-the century house called Tormead in 1915.

 The Lido, bordering the park was built in 1933 by unemployed workers from Jarrow and the modern building includes some of its original art deco features.  

The nearby Guildford College was built in 1939 in the grounds of the old Stoke Manor and it has expanded greatly since then.  In 1937, just before the war years, the Foundation Stone for the College and original air raid shelters was laid by Sir Philip Henriques KBE, Chairman of Surrey County Council. Traces of the underground system remain today. Although the College building was completed and opened in 1939, parts were immediately requisitioned for war purposes and Wandsworth Technical School and sections of County Hall were evacuated here. Young RAF and Naval Officers were trained on the site in radar technology.

The London and South Western Railway’s ‘New Guildford Line’ was opened in 1885, its station at London Road intended to carry commuters from the eastern suburbs of Guildford to the city.  It increased the house-building that was already beginning in Christchurch.  Before the area became residential the land was mainly used for farming.

Perhaps the most famous person associated with Christchurch ward is Alan Turing, the pioneer of computer science. His family home, when a schoolboy and a student, was in Ennismore Avenue from 1927-1939. A sculpture of Alan Turing by artist John Mills now sits within the grounds of the University of Surrey.

The street names within Christchurch ward have their own history. Boxgrove records the fact that in the Middle Ages the Benedictine priory of Boxgrove in West Sussex owned the farmland in the Easten part of the ward. Much of the land was owned by the Onslow family in Victorian times, and the streets that were developed along the Epsom Road in the 1870s have names that reflect this. Maori road is so named in reference to the 4th Earl of Onslow, having been the Governor of New Zealand from 1889-1892.