South Holmwood
| South Holmwood | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
 South Holmwood | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ172451 |
| Location: | 51°11’36"N, 0°19’26"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | RH5 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Mole Valley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Mole Valley |
South Holmwood is a village in Surrey, 5 miles south of Dorking on the A24 road. It is a separate village which has escaped the clutches of Dorking's spread, unike its near neighbour North Holmwood (with which it shares a single civil parish).
Between South Holmwood and North Holmwood is the hamlet of Mid Holmwood.
Despite the presence of dispersed farmsteads and cottages in the surrounding countryside, such as Betchets Green Cottage and Stoneheal, South Holmwood only became a significant settlement in the 19th century when the turnpike road was built from Epsom to Brighton. The village prospered from the increased thoroughfare (as well as from the presence of large country houses such as Anstie Grange and Holmwood Park), leading to the creation of establishments such as The Old Nag's Head inn, and middle-class villas such as The Dutch House. The village suffered bisection from Holmwood Common by the expansion of the turnpike road, now the A24, in 1971. The main residential area of the village is overlooked by the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene, built in 1838 and designed by John Burges Watson, standing on higher ground to the south.
A disused section of the Roman road Stane Street passes to the west of the village where there is one of the few changes in its alignment.
Holmwood railway station, on the Mole Valley Line, is at South Holmwood.
Moor Cottage in South Holmwood, was the birthplace of the novelist E Arnot Robertson (1903–1961). She then passed her childhood at Templeton, off Horsham Road.[1]
See also
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about South Holmwood) |
- History of church
- A brief history of Holmwood Common, the villages of North, South and Mid Holmwood with biographical details of eminent residents and sites of architectural interest
References
- ↑ Nicola Beauman: Robertson, Eileen Arbuthnot... In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online e.(Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004). Retrieved 10 September 2010.