Caterham
CaterhamThe place name has Celtic elements in it so could f be that this was a British enclave in the Dark Ages. The village had a population concerned with sheep and woollen manufacture up to the...
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Coal duty post Half mile south of Whyteleafe Station Station RoadUpper Warlingham Station. 1884 Between main line destinations and Riddlesdown on Southern Rail. Opened as ‘Upper Warlingham and...
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Caterham ValleyThe Bourne every seven years the river rises as a portent of calamityCroydon RoadMarden Lodge School. Bourne visible in the school playing fields143 Caterham Lithographic Co. Building...
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GreenThe older part of Warlingham isgrouped round a green. 2 The Leather Bottle. Cottages built of chalk blocks. Demolished.White Lion. The name is a reference to the badge of Edward IV. Part is a...
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Tillingdown HillSome land to the west of the hill is now public open spaceWorlds EndPark ShawHill Boxes
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Harrow RoadThe HarrowCoal Tax Post Just beyond theHarrow Inn where Old Farleigh Road begins.Coal Tax Post At northeast endof Daniels Lane in the undergrowth where thelane degenerates into footpaths...
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ChelshamChelsham. Marks the southernmostend of 'Greater Croydon', and the beginning of the opencountryside of the Surrey downs. Does the relative isolation of the church suggest a settlement, which...
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Garden VillageTiny timber houses built during the First World War. Originally an Woldingham Camp built on Muscombes field, in 1914. It became quarters for the Public Schools Battalion of the Middlesex...
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The BourneStream traceable as far as Marden Park, on the Godstone Road. Church RoadMarden Park Farm. Built in the early 20th by Sir Walpole Lloyd Greenwell as a stud farm for his shire horses. Now...
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CheverellsWas Warlingham Park Hospital Corporation of Croydon Mental Hospital. Large 1902. Polychrome brick tower.FarleighSt.Mary's a stone and flint 11th-century building. In the chancel is a brass...
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Chelsham CommonThe Bull. Village innCoal Tax Post On south west sideof Harrow Road at junction with ChelshamRoad. It is a rusty post but the inscription isintact. On parish boundary.
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Nethern Court RoadNether Court was one of the original manors of Woldingham and farmed land to the north.Northdown RoadNorthdown Road was originally the only road to the village, going up to it from...
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St.Leonard’s Church. Isolated from the village being more than a mile farther east from the inn. The flint-built church is approached from the direction of the village through an avenue of beeches....
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Broombank QuarryThis is a worked-out hoggin pit. Chesham Court RoadBroomfield East QuarryThis was opened by Dougal Ballast Co Ltd in1992. One of the projects at that time wassupplying the M25...
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BeddlesteadFlint with brick dressings 19th over a late medieval hall house.
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Bedlestead LaneWireless Station. This came into being in 1929 when the BBC bought land on the isolated plateau near the highest point of the North Downs from the Titsey Estate Company which handled...
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Biggin HillName from hilltop ‘bigging’. 1960s Bromley council thought this was just the spot to build lots of houses. Not much in the way of planning control. Marked thus on Bowen's map ofc.1762 and...
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