Parkgate, Surrey
| Parkgate | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ206436 |
| Location: | 51°10’47"N, 0°16’31"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | RH5 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Mole Valley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Mole Valley |
Parkgate is a village in Surrey: not a conventional village, it is more in the nature of modern houses strung along a single road hemmed in by woods. It is found in southern Surrey, on no main road nor railway line, a mile and a half east of the A24 Brighton Road and a mile or so northeast of the village Newdigate.
There is no village centre nor village shops, though the odd discreet business pops up between the houses. A pub and older farm buildings stand on the edge on the road to Newdigate. Parkgate consists mainly of a line of houses and cottages either side of Broad Lane and a most exclusive private development at Becket Wood.
There was once a village hall, the Jubilee Hall, built in 1885 for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and which sported a roof of corrugated iron: a material about which the Victorians were keen. It has since been converted into a house and the rusting iron roof replaced with tiles, but otherwise the hall’s essential outward character remains in its new role.