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Forest Green photos

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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

Forest Green map

Historic map of Forest Green

Surrey map

Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey

Forest Green map

Historic Map of any Forest Green postcode

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Forest Green books

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Surrey County Memories
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
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Camberley Photographic Memories
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Forest Green books
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Memories of Forest Green

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My Forest Green Family

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 by Lucy Jenkins.

Surrey memories

My childhood

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 by Barbara Parkes.

Family Recollections.

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 by Michael Chase.

Windmill Inn

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 by Gerry Warrington.

Temporary home

When my maternal grandparents' house "Hobart", Mount Road, Cranleigh was bombed during World War Two we were housed temporarily above the the Crown Inn whilst the bomb was defused and the house put back in order.

Shared on 11 June 2007 by Gerry Warrington.

Ewhurst War Memorial

For more information on the men from Ewhurst who served and fell or returned from the First World War, details can be found at www.ewhurstfallen.co.uk.
"The number of volunteers from Ewhurst and Ellen's Green was 'second to none'. The memorials show the price they paid"
Walter Stemp, one of the village's veterans.

Shared on 21 March 2007 by Andy Bailey.

Coneyhurst Farm

I am researching my family tree and I have learned that my ancestor George Worsfold born around 1799 ran Coneyhurst Farm in Ewhurst in the mid to late 1800s. He had 7 children and a lot of other relatives also in Ewhurst and Cranleigh. I am hoping to discover more and perhaps visit Ewhurst soon.

Shared on 25 August 2006 by Jan Pearson.

My childhood in Coldharbour

In July 1959, I was born at home, to Eric and Ann Shields in Coldharbour village.  My father was the village policeman; we lived in what was then the police house, which was situated next to the village shop opposite the schoolhouse.  All of these properties have now been turned into private homes, but in the scheme of things, the wonder... [more]

Shared on 10 September 2008

Extracts From Forest Green & Surrey books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Forest Green, inspired by Frith photos.

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]

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]

This is an extract from Dorking Town and City Memories.
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