Ewhurst
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Ewhurst books (31 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
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Surrey Living Memories
Paperback
- 5 photos on Ewhurst appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Ewhurst
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Ewhurst memories
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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 cavalry regiment. He returned to Ewhurst after the war not in the best of health having been wounded and gassed and married my mother Mona the daughter of the landlord of the Bulls head in the village.
After a while my grandfather and his wife retired and my father and his new wife took over the licence at the Windmill ...read more here
Contributed by Michael Chase
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.
Contributed by JAN PEARSON
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.
Contributed 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.
Contributed by Andy Bailey
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.
Contributed by Gerry Warrington
Extracts From Ewhurst & Surrey books
The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down. This stretch of road, leading south from Peaslake to Ewhurst, descends from the steep shoulder of Coneyhurst Hill, or Pitch Hill, which at 844ft is the third of the summits in the Leith Hill chain.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Eli Hamshire (1834-1896) lived in Ewhurst all his life. Self-educated, he was a radical thinker
who bombarded politicians with his thoughts on improving society. They included finding civil
employment for soldiers, vaccination, brewing beer and the workhouse. The memorial contains the
names of 51 Ewhurst men who died in the First World War. One wonders what Eli would have had to
say about the ‘war to end all wars’.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
The Old Crown Inn is seen
here in the days when it sold
ales brewed by Lascelles,
Tickner & Co, of Guildford.
The pub and also the
tearooms that were once
next door are now private
residences. The Bulls Head
pub, on the opposite side of
the road, remains.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
This small green is at the north end of the
village - the Bull’s Head pub stands on the
left out of the picture. This view looks to the
west side of the square green, with the
bellcote of the Evangelical Church in the
distance. To the right, the tile-hung Deblins
Green with its hipped tiled roof and tile-
hung upper floor dates from about 1700. To
the right, Jack Bennett’s Esso garage (later
renamed Pitt’s Garage) recently closed, and
the tiled pump canopy and the pumps were
removed. Its good timber-framed house
behind remains; it is currently awaiting
repair (October 2001).
An extract from from"Surrey Living 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.
An extract from from"Dorking Town and City Memories".