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North Holmwood, Church Walk c1955
North Holmwood, Village 1906
North Holmwood, the Village c1955
Historic maps of North Holmwood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all North Holmwood maps
Historic map of North Holmwood
Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey
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Godalming Town and City Memories
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Camberley - A History and Celebration
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Weybridge Town and City Memories
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Working for British Railway's southern region
My mother, Valerie Evans, worked for British Railways southern region from 1957 -1960 at Deepdene House. She was a shorthand typist and remembers Deepdene House to be a beautiful building with extensive grounds. She has happy memories of friends in the typing pool.
The building hadn't changed much since 1891 although I don't believe there was a conservatory in 1957. During her lunch breaks she would play tennis, table tennis and netball or just sit out on the grass and enjoy the scenery.
Shared on 02 March 2007
These two ponies belonged to Dorking Riding School and they were popular characters with gentle dispositions. They retired in 1963 to good homes. Pepsi-Cola is in the foreground. I was a groom at the stables and regularly rode them around the area.
Shared on 08 December 2006
Wounded World War One soldiers?
I'm pretty sure my great grandfather Hubert John Cavell, was brought here after becoming wounded in Ypres, in Belgium. He died on 22/04/1917. Does anybody have any information? I know that the Queen Alexandra nurses trained there.
Shared on 15 June 2008
I was born in the master bedroom on the main floor to the existing owners of Anstie.
During our 3 years there we converted it to suites and modernised it considerably.
On the day that I was born there were construction workers in the house and one of them cried when he heard the sound of a newborn baby, I was told many times.
My parents split in 1956 and my mother sold it and moved to Canada. She regretted the move all her life as it was a special place for her.
She trimmed the yew hedge diligently and was delighted to see how it had been maintained 30 years later when she visited it.
I have a few pictures of it then inside and out.
Shared on 28 August 2007
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about North Holmwood, inspired by Frith photos.
Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories
In the 19th century, this area south of Dorking was a wild and dangerous part of Surrey, where highwaymen pursued their villainous trade and smugglers transported their contraband goods at night along the wooded tracks. The line of pollarded trees to the right may have provided the raw material for one of the lawful activities in this area: the manufacture of walking sticks.
Now merged with Dorking, North Holmwood is one of three small villages along the west side of the large and mostly wooded Holmwood Common - the other two villages are Mid Holmwood and South Holmwood. Once the haunt of highwaymen, the common was given to the National Trust by the Duke of Norfolk in 1956. The Cabin is now part of the Forbuoys chain, but it is still the same sort of shop.
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 and William, who lost their lives in the First World War. St Joseph’s Catholic Church, designed by Frederick Arthur Walters, was erected in 1895 in Falkland Grove, off Coldharbour Lane.
