Dorking /ˈdɔr.kɪŋ/ is a market town in Surrey, England, in the valley of the Pipp Brook between the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge 21 miles (34 km) from London. It lies between two hills, Box Hill and Leith Hill.
Population: 16,429
Latitude: 51° 13' 56.21" N
Longitude: 0° 20' 1.68" E
The Royal Surrey County Hospital (RSCH) is a 520-bed District General Hospital, located on the fringe of Guildford, run by the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of 320,000 for general services and 1,200,000 for c…
Richmond Lock and Footbridge is a lock and pedestrian bridge, situated on the River Thames in south west London, England and is a Grade II* listed structure. It is the furthest downstream of all the Thames locks and is the only one owned and operate…
Redhill F.C. is an English football club based in Redhill, Surrey. The club are currently members of the Isthmian League Division One South and play at Kiln Brow.
Purley Way is a section of the A23 trunk road in the London Borough of Croydon, in the areas of Purley, Waddon and Broad Green, and has given its name to the out-of-town shopping area alongside it with a catchment area covering most of South London.…
Peper Harow is a rural village in south-west Surrey close to the town of Godalming. It was a noted early cricket venue. Its easternmost fields are in part given up to the A3 trunk road.
The Norwood Junction railway crash occurred on 1 May 1891, when a cast iron underbridge over Portland Road, 60 yards north east of Norwood Junction railway station, fractured under an express train from Brighton to London in southern England.
The North East Surrey College Of Technology (NESCOT) is a large further education and higher education college in Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, England that began as Ewell Technical College in the 1950s.
The Museum of Croydon (formerly Croydon Lifetimes Museum) is a museum located inside the Croydon Clocktower arts facility. It is in Central Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, England. The museum is stated to be a lifetime museum, which showcases hi…
Marymount International School is a non-selective independent day and boarding school for girls in Kingston upon Thames, London, England. Founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1955 it is open to children of all faiths or none.
The Longford River is an English artificial waterway, a distributary designed to embellish a park, that diverts water 12 miles (19 km) from the River Colne at Longford near Colnbrook to Bushy Park and Hampton Court Palace where, at both, it has outl…
The borough of Crawley, in West Sussex, England, has 43 churches, chapels and other buildings used specifically for worship. Other religious communities meet in community centres, schools and other buildings whose primary function is secular. Three …
Horsell is an ancient village in the borough of Woking in Surrey, England, located less than a mile northwest of Woking town centre. In November 2012, its population was 9,384.
Hampton Wick railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in South West London, and is in Travelcard Zone 6. The suburb of Hampton Wick is on the opposite bank of the River Thames from Kingston upon Thames and lies at the easter…
Ham Polo Club is a Hurlingham Polo Association Polo Club situated in Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the oldest polo clubs in the United Kingdom and the last surviving club in London. The club occupies a location…
The Gatwick Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located on the boundary of London Gatwick Airport in the village of Charlwood, Surrey.
The Eel Pie Recording Studios, formerly Oceanic, were not located on the River Thames's Eel Pie Island but on the mainland in Ranelagh Drive by Twickenham Bridge. Originally a 1960s boathouse its riverside venue allowed Pete Townshend to commute the…
Dragon Falls is a log flume ride at the theme park Chessington World of Adventures Resort in Chessington, London, England. Designed by John Wardley and opened in 1987, it is located in the Mystic East area of the park.
The Diana Fountain in Bushy Park, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is a seventeenth-century statue ensemble and water feature in an eighteenth-century setting with a surrounding pool and mile long tree lined vistas which honors the Rom…