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rm ood Fa overw at C attle rd c refo He Industrious Hills With all the glorious countryside of the industry as early as 1226. During the things. The 19th and 20th century Surrey Hills, the concept of it being a reign of Elizabeth I, there were no fewer brought fame to several local innovators manufacturing region doesn’t immediately than eleven glass works on the green. and inventors and a small selection of spring to mind. However, if we look back Chiddingfold glass was used in some of these are featured in our centre page through history, we find that significant the finest buildings in the land, including spread. And the story continues - various activity has taken place in and around St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, and St companies undertake research and the Surrey Hills. George’s Chapel, Windsor. It is suggested development at sites within the Surrey Historical records show traces of iron that the works were suppressed during Hills. There is also a blend of academic working around . These relate the reign of Elizabeth I on the petition of and business research and innovation at primarily to the 16th and 17th century so the inhabitants that they were causing a centres such as the UCL Mullard Space it is logical to assume that the ore and the nuisance. However, this action was Science Laboratory at wood charcoal were locally sourced. The probably due largely to the unpopularity and at the University of Surrey with its locations of sites close to the Wey plus of the foreigners (French, Flemings and 5G Innovation Centre which is looking to various ponds are all indicative of the iron Germans from Lorraine) who owned develop the next generation of mobile furnaces and forges being water powered. these furnaces. and wireless connectivity systems. There is also an indication of iron works Within the heart of the Surrey Hills, we at Ewood near find the Tillingbourne. This was a very Medieval glass in . These heavily industrialised watercourse with St Mary’s church, Chiddingfold are known to have many mills and other waterworks. The been working in mills would have been for grain, fulling of the 16th century. cloth, iron work, and various other uses. 5G Innovation Our 2016 events The two most famous activities are, of Centre at programme will course, the manufacture of paper for University include a visit to treasury notes and the production of of Surrey this site. gunpowder – both anathema to William Whilst the Surrey Hills have wonderful The Chiddingfold Cobbett as recorded in his Rural Rides. landscapes and leisure opportunities, area has another The Surrey Hills Society is currently they are also a dynamic and innovative claim to fame – it involved in an HLF funded project to region. It is this blend of conserved and was an important record more about the industrial history protected areas with entrepreneurs and centre for medieval of this area (see page 3). innovators which helps keep the area glass from 1350-1400 These industries would all have as something special. Enjoy them – but records date this developed innovative ways of doing they are your Surrey Hills.

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Ken and Chris on the Maggie Barlow from Imbhams Farm Mayor’s sponsored walk supporting the Mayors Walk

Pete Lambert's walk at Chilworth . It is the 300th anniversary of his birth this year.

What an exciting year we have in store for I must thank all the growing army of you. There are so many walks, talks and volunteers who work tirelessly for the events I want to go on, I am not sure when I Surrey Hills to create events, monitor the will have time to go to work! 2016 is going website, give talks, assist with membership to be the “Year of the Garden” and we will or man the trailer at the many shows we last September. It was great fun meeting certainly have plenty of gardens to visit. I am attend... to name but a few of our tasks! If the Mayor of Haslemere, who saw us off at delighted to tell you that Baroness Sweerts you would like to join the team do please the start. A huge thank you also to Maggie de Landas Wyborgh has kindly agreed to call me to discuss opportunities. Barlow from Imbhams Farm, who came and open her Dunsborough Park garden near I must thank again two of our Trustees who gave us some of her wonderful local muesli Ripley, famous for its tulips, in support of stood down at our AGM in November 2015. and apple juice along with our sausages our Society. We are very grateful to her for Rob Tong and Aly Holly have taken the and rolls to set us up for the days walking. this opportunity. Do remember to book early decision to stand down due to family reasons. Maggie is a great supporter of ours and you for this special opportunity in April. But we were delighted to announce their will often find her stall at the various successor, Tariq Phillips, a lawyer from We have also agreed to support the Gatton farmers markets across the county. Trust this year with fund raising for their Woking. Tariq is full of energy and new I also need to give a huge thank you to the latest project to enhance and reinstate ideas and takes his new role seriously. Duke of Kent School for their fantastic more of the landscape originally designed I also want to give a big thank you to Pete support welcoming us back on the last day by “Capability” Brown, the famous 18th Lambert who helped me start the 20-30s of our journey. This Pre-prep to Year 11 century landscape architect who worked at walking group that meets on the first Sunday school is in an amazing setting in the Surrey of every month for a free walk somewhere Rob Tong steps down as Trustee Hills near Ewhurst. Thank you also for the in the Surrey Hills. The walks programme scrumptious afternoon tea that they kindly has gone from strength to strength but put on for us. What a wonderful school. many of our, may I say “older” members, fed back to me that they liked the sound of I am pleased to announce that the event these walks too. Therefore, we have opened has raised nearly £4000 for the Surrey Hills up the Sunday walks to all members who Trust Fund, to be used for projects to conserve feel they are fit enough to keep up with the and enhance the AONB. The event was so “30 somethings”. popular we plan to do another one in 2016. I must also thank Ken Bare, our Vice I hope you enjoy the 2016 programme of Chairman, for the huge effort he put in to walks, talks, fund-raising and volunteering organise the Mayor of Waverley, Mike Band’s, for the wonderful Surrey Hills. sponsored walk along the Way Chris Howard, Chairman

Start of Mayors walk Aly Holly steps down at Haslemere Town Hall

Our amazing afternoon tea at the Duke of Kent School

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2 News from the Surrey Hills Board

stunning and varied countryside, the North Peter Morris, Way Trail Manager Downs Way traverses the protected landscapes of the Surrey Hills Area of gets Googled! Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and The North Downs Way is to become the first the AONB. The route begins National Trail in the UK to be fully captured at the impressive new start sculpture in by the Google Trekker. Last year the intrepid (designed locally by the Utopia North Downs Way explorers headed out into Foundry in Guildford) and emerges onto the the great British countryside with the Google White Cliffs of Dover. These images will be Trekker to record a 360 degree panoramic made available for public use via Google experience of the trail. Maps in the Spring of 2016 and will The North Downs Way is one of only 15 showcase the many and varied benefits the designated National Trails in and trail brings to its users and to the local Wales with diverse appeal and many unique economy. To plan your visit go to features. Passing through 153 miles of www.nationaltrail.co.uk/north-downs-way

walking events in the Surrey Hills AONB “We are delighted to be working with the Biggest sporting on Sunday 25th September 2016. Community Foundation for Surrey and the Surrey Hills to deliver an event that will not People of all ages and fitness can challenge in Surrey only raise funds for local communities, but participate in four different running and highlight and help preserve the beautiful walking challenges. The launched countryside.” will form the backdrop to the event where The Surrey Hills Challenge is set to be one the super fit can face the ultimate challenge Chairman of the Surrey Hills Trust Fund, of the biggest sporting challenges in Surrey Neil Maltby comments; this year with a series of running and with ‘The Ultra’, a 60km run, ‘The Half’, no ordinary walk (or run) in the park of 21km, “The Surrey Hills Trust Fund is delighted to ‘The Ten’, a fast and furious 10km or ‘The have been chosen as the beneficiary for the Five’, a family challenge 5km event. Surrey Hills Challenge event. Money raised will go into local projects from clearing The challenges start in Haslemere, go past viewpoints and restoring landscape features the Devil’s Punchbowl at , to educating younger audiences. Your traverse Surrey’s main hills of , support of this event will help to safeguard Pitch, Holmbury and , before this beautiful area for future generations”. descending north to . For more information or to register, visit Jim McAllister, Chief Executive, Rutland www.surreyhillschallenge.com or call Launch of Surrey Hills Challenge at Hindhead Management Ltd comments; 01483 720459 / 542221.

characters based on research of actual Heritage. It is not too late to get involved Professor Crocker historical figures (for example, a corn miller though, as there is a huge variety of roles in Shalford, a gunpowder worker in and skills needed for this project: mapping, at Tillingbourne Chilworth, a weaver in Shere, and a tanner oral history collection, archive research, in Gomshall). These characters will be educational support, creative arts, IT and Tales launch created into puppets that will then visit the social media literacy, river wardening, and In our last edition we introduced you to our local schools and take part in a pageant more. If you are interested in volunteering in new Co-ordinator for the Tillingbourne Tales which will be performed in the autumn. any way, contact [email protected], or find out more about the Tales and Trails HLF project, Dr Anne Sassin. You may Work will also take place with the Surrey remember that the Surrey Hills Society is a of the Tillingbourne Valley project by visiting Wildlife Trust and river wardens to learn http://www.tillingbournetales.co.uk or joining principal partner in delivering this project. about water conservation and monitoring, their new Facebook page https://www. In this edition we will update you on the to help preserve the natural environment of facebook.com/tillingbournetales/. progress so far. the river valley”. Anne explains “The idea with this project is A successful evening launch event took that it will help celebrate the industrial place at Shalford Village Hall on Monday heritage of the Tillingbourne Valley, and 23 November, with a talk by local historian reveal aspects of it that have either been Professor Alan Crocker on the ‘Mills of the overlooked in the past, or have not yet been Tillingbourne’. discovered. The project hopes to bring Currently, Anne is working with the local awareness of the local history to the Parish Councils, schools and local voluntary residents, and help them understand the organisations to develop the project, with national importance the area held, so that much of the core work being undertaken by they can help preserve the information local volunteers. Two volunteer training discovered for future generations. days have already taken place in November Each village will have its industrial past and December at the Surrey History Centre Professor Crocker at the launch drawn-out through the creation of in Woking, with the support of Surrey

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3 Surrey’s Innovators and Inventors Throughout the centuries, Surrey folk have been inventive and creative people. A number of them had ideas which drove progress or had far reaching implications. In this feature, we highlight just six of them from the 19th and 20th Century – although, space permitting, we could have included many more.

1857 when the Committee for Science & Penfold’s box combined simple design with Art of the House of Lords designed a very functionality. Hexagonal in shape, it was ornate box festooned with Grecian style adorned with acanthus leaves and balls, decoration but, in a major oversight, devoid a far less ornate design than some earlier of any posting aperture, which meant they “standard” models. Many of the features were hewn out of the cast iron locally, initiated with the Penfold boxes remain in destroying the aesthetic of the box. use today. Such was the impact of Penfold’s Between 1866 and 1879 the Penfold post work that it was the only post box ever to be box became the standard design for pillar known by the designers name and – even boxes and it was during this period that red more of an accolade – its popularity led to was first adopted as the standard colour. replica Penfolds, bearing the cipher of John Wornham Penfold was a Haslemere Queen Victoria, being produced. The first man who became a prominent architect replica was produced in 1988 and placed in and surveyor. He surveyed the local area the heritage area of Windsor. Another, Replica Penfold post box in Haslemere. when the railways came, rebuilt and installed in about 1990, is sited outside expanded Haslemere parish church and Penfold’s former home in Haslemere. John Wornham Penfold designed other local buildings. However, J W Penfold died on 5th July 1909 and is The first UK pillar boxes appeared in the he is best remembered in the wider world buried in the grounds of St Bartholomew’s 1850’s. Standardisation of sorts came in for his post box. Church, Haslemere.

Godalming Council circuits. The first was 250 volts and Image from “The Graphic” Nov 1881, 12amps. It supplied seven arc lamps in courtesy of Godalming Museum Since 1836, the Godalming Gas & Coke series: three at the mill and four on posts in Company had lit the town's streets using the town. The second circuit supplied 34 gas. Late in 1881, the local council decided incandescent lamps at 40 volts. Most were to award electricians Messrs. Calder and located in the town, except for seven at the Barrett, of Lambeth, a twelve month contract mill and Mr Pullman’s house. to provide electricity to the street lamps. They used the existing posts and lamp housings Calder and Barrett got out of their depth and Alexander Siemens stepped in after but provided the generating equipment. It April 1882. It is believed that he replaced was all about money: their cost estimate their generator with a traction engine in a undercut the gas company's quote. shed behind the Old White Hart. However, The two waterwheels at E. & J. Pullman's the whole enterprise was costing him the world's first public electricity supply Leather Works at Westbrook Mill were used money and when the contract came up in illuminating the local streets. The Godalming to drive an alternator and an exciter. The 1884, he declined to tender. The project Power Station was driven by water, and electricity generated was taken by overhead was abandoned and the town went back was thus also the first hydroelectric power cable to the High Street. There were two to gas. It was, however to be recorded as station in Britain.

John Henry Knight was designed very much as an experiment many restrictions which prevented the use in order to attract Police attention and of motor carriages in Britain at that time. Knight, born in Farnham in 1847 of a therefore create public awareness of the Knight managed to use the vehicle for some wealthy family, was both an inventor and 150 miles on public roads, before being pioneer. In 1868 he had a little steam carriage made; it was capable of carrying stopped by the Police. However, On 17 three passengers at a speed of 8 miles an October 1895, they drove through Farnham, hour on good roads, while it easily mounted Surrey, whereupon he was prosecuted for the hills in the neighbourhood of Farnham. using a locomotive with neither a licence Over the following years he created a nor a man walking in front with a red flag. renowned steam powered hop digger; a Knight subsequently became a founder heat saving radiator; a brick laying machine; member of the Automobile Association (AA) a grenade thrower, a speedometer, wooden and was instrumental in the repeal of the vehicle tyres, and a patent 'dish lever' for Red Flag Act. tilting plates when carving meat. Interestingly, Knight was also a keen His enduring fame though is as a result photographer and pioneer of early colour of an event in 1895 when he and his photography, photographing Farnham and assistant, James Pullinger, built Britain’s Knight on one of his early cars, courtesy the surrounding countryside in the early first petrol-powered motor vehicle. The car Museum of Farnham years of the 20th century.

4 largest photographic studios in the world. Francis Frith, Francis Frith Within a few years, over two thousand shops Copyright The Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. throughout the UK were selling his postcards. Francis Frith In 1850 he started a photographic studio in Collection Liverpool. A successful grocer and printer, After Frith’s death in 1898 his two sons, Frith fostered an interest in photography, and later his grandson, continued his becoming a founding member of the massive task. The Francis Frith Collection Liverpool Photographic Society. Frith sold now contains over 300,000 images of 8,500 his companies in 1855 in order to dedicate cities, towns and villages taken between himself entirely to photography. From 1857 1860 and 1970, and is recognised as being he undertook three pioneering photographic the only nationally important archive of its expeditions to Egypt and the Holy Land. kind in private hands. In 1859, he opened the firm of Francis Frith Over 130,000 images are already & Co. in Reigate, Surrey, as the world’s first available to view on the Frith website – specialist photographic publisher. In 1860, www.francisfrith.com – and the company he married and embarked upon a colossal has just finished a major project to digitise project—to photograph every town and the entire photographic archive. Frith’s work village in the United Kingdom; in particular, has been an important contribution to social notable historical or interesting sights. Initially history, providing a window on the UK’s – he took the photographs himself, but as and especially Surrey’s – towns and villages. success came, he hired people to help him If you have never checked their web site, and set about establishing his postcard it’s worth doing – their images are not only company, a firm that became one of the fascinating but also make excellent gifts.

John Rand Capron various elements. In 1879 he extended this into a study of the characteristics of the Capron was an amateur astronomer and aurora, and in 1883 published an analysis highly respected spectrologist. Apart from of an extremely unusual phenomenon practising as a solicitor he had a variety of other roles; Clerk of the Peace for the observed during the aurora of 17 November borough of Guildford; Chairman of Directors 1882. Capron was one of the first scientists for Guildford Gas Light & Coke Company, to seriously research the nature of aurorae, and for some years Coroner. particularly from a spectrographic perspective. He was educated at The Royal Grammar In 1880, in a letter printed in the scientific School, Guildford. While at school he had journal Nature, he recorded what may be typhoid fever and during his recovery he the first report of a crop circle. It is clear was lent a microscope. This opened a new Capron’s Observatory, Copyright of from his writings and studies that he was of world of study. Initially interested in biology Paul Fuller, courtesy of Surrey History Centre an inquisitive and analytical mind and was and geology, he later developed a particular a true innovator, using new technologies enthusiasm for the study of spectroscopy In 1877 he published a significant work on and developing new theories to support his and astronomy. Capron built himself a private ‘‘Photographed Spectra’’, which provided findings. Sadly, his health deteriorated and observatory in Guildown, on the Hog’s Back. reference photographs of the spectra of he died in 1888 before he was 60.

Ada Lovelace & Alan Turing mathematically focussed education and “Can machines think?”, promptly launching when she was subsequently introduced to the field of artificial intelligence. Ada Lovelace has recently had significant Charles Babbage and his “Analytical media coverage connected to the 200th Ada was married to William King, the Engine”, something clicked. She foresaw anniversary of her birth in 1815. Ada loved 8th Baron King who became 1st Earl of how such machines could undertake far machines. She spent hours poring over Lovelace – with family homes at Ockham more complex tasks than those Babbage diagrams of new inventions and eagerly and then Horsley Towers in East Horsley. focussed on and started to develop ideas devouring any new periodical journals she Turing’s parents had a house in Guildford which are now considered to form the birth could get her hands on. She also had a where he spent school holidays and other of computer science. periods. Consequently, it is fair to say that Ada’s ideas found their way into modern Surrey had two major computer pioneers computing via Alan Turing. During WWII, amongst its residents. as he was working at Bletchley Park on decoding German communications, Turing discovered Lovelace’s Menabrea translation (of Babbages presentation in Turin) and its attendant notes. They were critical documents that helped to shape his thinking. In his Ada Lovelace Plaque outside Turing’s seminal paper Computing Machinery and Registered Charity number 1125532 parents home in Guildford Intelligence, Turing explored the question www.surreyhillssociety.org

5 News from Surrey Hills Enterprises

sponsors can choose their own charity and CowParade is the auction proceeds will be split between that and the Surrey Hills Trust Fund, a coming to the charity established to conserve and protect the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Surrey Hills Natural Beauty, leaving a legacy for Surrey Hills Enterprise Director, Tim generations to come. Metson, along with a stunning chrome cow Internationally renowned artist Alexander named “Mirror Moo” (which reflects the Alexander Creswell Creswell who is Patron of CowParade inspired by local cows landscape of the Surrey Hills), attended the Surrey says: Surrey Hills Society AGM in November 2015 45 million people. The highest-grossing cow “The CowParade is a brilliant platform for and explained to our members what this was created by designer John Rocha for generating creativity and for bringing project is all about. CowParade Dublin in 2003 – studded with together businesses, schools and Basically the idea of CowParade is that individuals across Surrey, it will also be a thousands of pieces of Waterford Crystal it individuals, companies and schools can huge amount of fun! Together we will be was auctioned for $146,000 – quite a lot of sponsor a life-size cow and either decorate creating a massive art installation with the moo-lah indeed. it themselves, or bring in an artist to do it. potential to raise lots of money for good The cows will be on display out in Surrey The cows will then be displayed around the causes and for the Surrey Hills Trust Fund from May – September 2016 where the county before being herded to the inaugural in particular.” public will have an opportunity to see them Surrey Hills Food, Drink and Music Festival CowParade was born in Switzerland in all and there is a specially designed app at Coverwood Farm on 3 September where 1998 and has been staged in more than 80 currently being created to track all the cows. they will be auctioned off for charity. The cities and towns worldwide. Over the years For more information on how to take part best designed ‘top twenty’ will be auctioned 3,000 cows have been decorated by more call the Surrey Hills CowParade team on at a glittering ceremony held at a unique than 5,000 artists. CowParade New York 01483 661150 or visit the website at London location later in the year. The cow had 450 cows and was seen worldwide by www.cowparadesurreyhills.com Discovering, revealing and interpreting views of the Surrey Hills Funding has been received from the Mittal views across the Greensand Way. These An education programme alongside each Foundation to establish a Surrey Hills Arts artworks will respond to the location and site will inspire and engage new audiences programme. The project will open up hidden incorporate seating providing a reason to visit, through talks, creative writing, poetry, sound views in the southern Surrey Hills, improve and photography. pause and appreciate the outstanding view. access, engage with communities and For further information visit commission artists’ responses to these views. Each art installation will be beautifully www.surreyhills.org or contact Surrey Hills Arts will commission five artists crafted, innovative in design and relevant to Programme Manager, Ali Clarke; to create artworks inspired by far reaching the sense of place. [email protected].

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is that it enables me to let people know After a full year of developing the site, the about the innovative things that are going organisers of this project can now show it on in Dorking and its surroundings. off to visitors and the Society plans to In late 2014 Aviva allowed part of the arrange a trip there during the summer. We can also explore the historic village of grounds of the former Friends’ Life and perhaps take in a cricket complex in Dorking to be used to create match at Dorking Cricket Club’s grounds the “Patchworking Garden Project”. Two next to Pixholme Grove. acres of wilderness that are contained in Sponsor’s View the original walled garden have been Raised flower beds in taken over to provide a sanctuary where Patchworking garden It was a great pleasure to meet many of people struggling with problems, such as you at the 2015 Annual General Meeting bereavement, isolation and physical or and also at Belmont School. My firm is psychological ill health can immerse very proud of being the current sponsor themselves in creating and tending different of your newsletter. types of flower and vegetable beds. In One of my interests in having my firm addition, a sensory garden, wooded area sponsor the Surrey Hills Society newsletter and a bog garden have been created.

Barn and Mill AONB conversions Planner’s view Who would not like the idea of living in ‘‘For several years local and national a beautifully converted barn or mill and planning policies have provided for the having wonderful views over the Surrey conversion of rural buildings, not just barns, countryside? You would be surprised to dwellings subject to certain criteria being how many! met. However, their low key, rustic charm as Agricultural buildings offer a means to working buildings connected with managing increase the rural housing stock without farmland and often forming attractive interfering with Green Belt planning features of the Surrey Hills in themselves, Barn conversion near Dorking does change. Even though conversions can restrictions. Or do they? be well designed, their use as dwellings In March 2015, the Department for Also there is the question of whether an necessitates numerous physical changes, Communities and Local Government agricultural building close to a Listed such as the insertion of many more windows. issued new planning practice guidelines Property also has the protection of itself Then there is all the paraphernalia because approximately 52% of prior being Listed. In my researches this is associated with dwellings such as parked approval applications for agricultural to normally a decision for the local Council cars, garaging, smart driveways, domestic residential conversions had been refused to make and often hinges on whether the gardens, fencing, washing lines and in the period between April and property is considered to lie within the sometimes sheds and greenhouses. In the curtilage of the main property. future the houses may be extended and so September 2014. Under the Permitted more building bulk. Sometimes the Development rights issued in 2014 local From an insurance perspective, the character of adjoining land also changes councils were expected to allow farm construction of most converted farm from agriculture to ‘horsiculture’ with stabling. buildings to be converted to homes buildings renders them “non - standard” In time, unconverted traditional farm as far as mainstream insurers are without planning permission. buildings still used for farming will become District Council has an concerned. For those insurers that are a rarity. The character of the Surrey Hills enlightened approach towards prepared to consider such properties, will be the lesser for that. clients need first to establish the precise agricultural conversions and it is a credit Generous permitted development rights rebuilding costs before comparing one to the Planning Department that a holistic allows for replacement agricultural buildings concept of maintaining the traditional insurance quote from another. Some to be erected. If in future these in turn are character of the area, along with the need insurers offer as part of their service a allowed to be converted so the cycle will to find new uses for redundant properties, free survey to look at the correct continue with more and more buildings in has continued to make our Surrey Hills reinstatement cost of a building and also the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. such a wonderful place to live in. advice over fire and security protection. So while the short term view is that these Remember also that many agricultural conversions can provide lovely homes for But there are drawbacks to owning a the occupiers and that is better than allowing buildings have been constructed in flood converted agricultural building. Access is new houses to be built in the AONB, the one, with planning decisions often limiting plains, so unless this has been taken into longer term public enjoyment of the natural the amount of car parking space so as consideration as part of the conversion beauty of the Surrey Hills tends to be over- not to affect the character of the process, flood cover may not always be looked. Imagine how the Surrey Hills will countryside. Also lack of provision may available. look in say 100 or 200 years time if this is mean that internet access is poor or not Contact me on 01306 734105 or at allowed to continue.’’ available and connection to main [email protected] for more Clive Smith services difficult or impossible. information.

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Saturday 13th February Easter holiday Tuesday 10th May Map reading to enjoy The Surrey Hills Family Fun Wonderful Winkworth Arboretum A training day for those who want to get out Signposting to National Trust Winkworth Arboretum has spectacular and appreciate the Surrey Hills, but do not Over the Easter holidays National Trust offers carpets of blooms giving an abundance of have the confidence and experience to use a wide range of activities for the whole family. colour and scent. Our guided walk will cover Ordnance Survey maps and a compass. See their website www.nationaltrust.org.uk the Arboretum’s history, how it is managed Based in Wotton. and look for Easter holiday fun. plus information about the trees and plants. Monday 15th February (and other dates) Sunday 3rd April Wednesday 25th May Activities for Children Exploring Box Hill, Dorking Chaldon Church & Tudor House & Families at Gatton Park Meet for 11am prompt start at National Trust We return to St Peter and St Paul’s, Chaldon Signposting to Gatton Park Trust Cafe at top of Box Hill. Allow around 2 hours for an evening visit to view the internationally renowned twelfth-century doom mural. By As part of our support to Gatton Park in 2016, for this 2¾ m strenuous walk. Free guided walk. special invitation, we will also be allowed to we wish to highlight their regular events Tuesday 12th April visit the adjacent Tudor House programme for children & families. See www.gattonpark.com/events-for-children.php Review of Surrey Hills AONB Sunday 5th June and www.gattonpark.com/events-for- Planning issues Exploring Woldingham A talk by the AONB team’s Planning toddlers.php for more details. Meet for 11am prompt start from Woldingham Consultant on current planning issues Railway Station. This is a moderately Wednesday 24th February affecting the Surrey Hills. This is a must for strenuous walk, but no stiles and will take Snowdrops at Gatton Parish Councillors and those interested in about 2 hours. Free guided walk. An exclusive opportunity to see the planning related issues. snowdrops at Gatton, plus an explanation of Wednesday 8th June Tuesday 19th April the plans to celebrate the tercentenary of the Chairmans Day birth of Capability Brown who created the Redhill Aerodrome plus Surrey Air Another popular day focussing on the landscape there. This is a project the Society Ambulance excellent food and drink producers of the is supporting in 2016. The talk and lunch will A specially hosted event in a 1930’s Surrey Hills. Details to follow be in the magnificent hall of the house. aviation-themed venue. Featuring a talk on the history of the aerodrome plus a film about, Wednesday 15th June Sunday 6th March and visit to, the Air Ambulance based on site. A Visit to Goddards Exploring Hindhead Lunch included. Goddards was built by architect Edwin Meet at the National Trust café, Devils Lutyens and has a garden laid out by his Tuesday 26th April Punchbowl for 11am start. Free guided walk friend and collaborator, Gertrude Jekyll. We Dunsborough Park Gardens are privileged to have been granted access Tuesday 8th March An exclusive private visit to the spectacular for a private viewing of this wonderful Arts & Fascinating Farnham gardens with its magnificent display of tulips. Crafts building situated at Common. An evening talk hosted by the Town Clerk of We'll be taken around by the Head Gardener Farnham. Learn about some of the history of who will tell us all about these gardens that Wednesday 29th June the area and enjoy the rather special have been structured over hundreds of years, Duxhurst - Surrey’s Lost Village surroundings of the Council Chamber so there will be something to satisfy everyone’s A morning talk by Ros Black who has taste. There is also an exquisite collection of researched and written about Duxhurst. In the Sunday 20th March outdoor statuary and garden ornaments. 1890s, Lady Henry Somerset was travelling Family Day at the world in her capacity as president of the Sunday 8th May Join the Surrey Hills Society for a busy day British Women’s Temperance Association. In full of activities at Bocketts Farm, have a Exploring Banstead 1894 she founded Duxhurst (just 3 miles picnic and see the lambs. You might even see Woods, near Chipstead south of Reigate) as a village for the care of one been born under your eyes! Children will Meet at 11am for prompt start from Chipstead inebriate women of all classes. Learn all take home Easter eggs decorated by Railway station. This is an easy walk lasting 2 about this forgotten community and Lady themselves. hours. Free guided walk. Somerset’s work.

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