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Forest Green, Surrey
Forest Green maps
Historic maps of Forest Green and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Forest Green maps
Historic map of Forest Green
Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey
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Forest Green books
Displaying 3 of 9 books about Forest Green and the local area. View all Forest Green books
Surrey County Memories
Paperback
£15
Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Camberley Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
1 Forest Green photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Forest Green
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I moved to Forest Green when I was 2 but my whole family comes from the area. Christine Dendy (my maternal grandmother) was born in the village. Her parents were a housemaid and a gamekeeper/odd-job man for the Vaughan-Williams estate. My grandmother was born in the row of First World War council houses erected behind the village green and she married... [more]
Shared on 31 October 2009
Surrey memories
I was born to Victor Owen Colman Emmerson and Jean Florence Emmerson at the family home of Garden Cottage, Holmbury St Mary in September 1957. I have an older brother, John and a younger sister Diane who were also born there. My grandmother Catherine or 'Kit' was for many years housekeeper to Dorothea Flower who lived next door in Hurtwood Cottage.... [more]
Shared on 29 August 2006
My grandfather Edward Chase kept the Windmill Inn on Pitch hill and my father worked for him. My maternal grandfather John Allen kept the Bull Head in the village of Ewhurst and had two daughters, Mona and Lilian.
My father Robert Chase ( Ted ) joined the Surrey Yeomanry during the first World War and served in France with this... [more]
Shared on 10 November 2007
In the late 19th century both this inn and the windmill itself, which was a short way away, were run by members of the Coldman family --- brothers I believe.
Shared on 11 June 2007
Extracts From Forest Green & Surrey books
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
The area is rather romantically referred to as smugglers' country; it is said to have been a kind of halfway house between the Sussex coast and London, where contraband could be safely hidden. As a folk song goes: 'It`s Champagne fine for communion wine and the parson drinks it too, With a sly wink prays 'forgive these men, for they know not what they do'.'
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]
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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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