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Caterham

 

Chaldon Common Lane

The common was also called Willey Heath.  Enclosed in 1865..  Its length and straightness is typical of roads laid down following enclosure.  Later called New Road or Brickfield Road – because of the number of brick works on it

Bakers Cottage said to have been a 19th baker. 

Beggar’s Lodge – the parish poorhouse of 1812 built on a 18th encroachment. Merstham stone front.

Chaldon Road

110 Clifton Arms

Coulsdon Road

SDt Lawrence’s Hospital. OPemed 1870 as the Metropolitan District Asylum for the Reception of Imbeciles and Chronic Harmless Lunartics. Was then the Metropolitan District Mental Hospital, St.Lawrence, transferred from Metropolitan Asylums Board to London County Council

School for sub-normal children. 1963. Best building recently in Caterham. Splendid view.

Windmill.  Dates back to at least 1696 but disappeared during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Its site was just north of a house named The Firs' in the northern part of the hospital grounds. During the beginning of the nineteenth century it passed to Richard Dewdney

Heath Lane

Caterham Windmill Farries and Mason have identified the sites of a windmill on the high ground at Caterham. Today it would be difficult to locate this site with exactitude. It Appears on Rocque's map of 1762 and is said to have been at the southern end of Heath Road and Mill Lane. It had gone by 1736.

Rook Lane

Fryern Farm 16th  imposing gateway. The farm’s name comes from its ownership by the White Friars of Bermondsey Abbey.  Red brick 19th  house

Salmons Lane

Stanstead Road


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