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Abinger, Surrey
Abinger maps
Historic maps of Abinger and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Abinger maps
Historic map of Abinger
Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey
Historic Map of any Abinger postcode
Abinger books
Displaying 3 of 9 books about Abinger and the local area. View all Abinger books
Surrey County Memories
Paperback
£15
Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Camberley Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
2 Abinger photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Abinger
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Since this photo was taken the top of the large tree in the background has been hit by lightning. Around four or five feet of bare wood sticks out at the top of the tree. I don’t know when this happened.
Shared on 09 November 2006
Surrey memories
i was born in guildford in 1986 and my parents had just taken over abinger post office and stores this is the house in the middle of the photo with all the ivy (that wasnt there in my time) the window above the shop was my parents room the spare room and the lounge are the rooms to the left. i... [more]
Shared on 28 December 2007
Photograph No. 1. I was born in July l940 – Virginia Le Roux. The house on the left of the picture was where I lived until I was nearly 13 with my parents. The long narrow upstairs window was my bedroom. My mother’s mother and brother also lived in the house. My uncle -... [more]
Shared on 18 December 2007
I was born in Shere in 1942 to the youngest child of George and Margaret Bryant. The Bryants were a well-known Shere family, my father being the eldest of nine children born and raised in the village. I had a very happy childhood in the village, attended the village school as did my older brother and sister and several cousins. I... [more]
Shared on 26 September 2006
Extracts From Abinger & Surrey books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Abinger, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Deep within The Hurtwood at Abinger Bottom are several stone-built cottages surrounded by pine trees. A stream, that eventually joins the Tillingbourne, runs through the hamlet. The element 'Hurt' in Hurtwood comes from the Old English word 'ceart', meaning a rough common of bracken, gorse and broom.
This is an extract from Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories.
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Dorking Town and City Memories
Other local churches, claimed to be 'old and steady', are Shere, Leigh, Mickleham, Abinger, Wotten and Betchworth: they have stood for centuries. St Barnabas's on Ranmore sits 700 feet above Dorking on Ranmore Common. Sir Gilbert Scott designed it in 1859 as the estate church for George Cubitt, the first Lord Ashcombe. In the churchyard lie the founder of Denbies Estate, and his three grandsons, Henry, Alick... [more]
This is an extract from Dorking Town and City Memories.
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Dorking Town and City Memories
he downs are mostly of chalk, and otherwise of sandstone, and each has its own special flora. The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking. From there they fall away in a picturesque series of steps, rising again to the same level as Leith Hill at Hindhead and Black Down. Leith Hill and its tower... [more]
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