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In the end, Portsmouth beat Dorking 7–0 with goals from Svetoslav Todorov (3), Lomana LuaLua, Roudolphe Douala, Matthew Taylor and Berlin Ndebe-Nlome. On 3 April 2007, another benefit match was played, just 48 hours after Vaughan's death, against a Crystal Palace XI. A two-minute silence was observed by the players, officials and supporters ...
Wickenden was married and had four sons. [2] He was an experienced pilot, and often flew his own Spitfire to engagements. [2]On 9 July 1983, Wickenden died in a plane crash. Moments after taking off from Shoreham Airport in West Sussex, his twin engine de Havilland Dove plunged into a bank of the River Adur before catching on fire.
Dorking appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as the Manor of Dorchinges. It was held by William the Conqueror, who had assumed the lordship in 1075 on the death of Edith of Wessex, widow of Edward the Confessor. The settlement included one church, three mills worth 15s 4d, 16 ploughs, woodland and herbage for 88 hogs and 3 acres (1.2 ha) of meadow.
The Leatherhead Urban District Council (UDC) was formed six years later [48] and in 1903 the county council was placed in charge of the town's National schools. [49] The Local Government Act 1972 created Mole Valley District Council, by combining the UDCs of Leatherhead and Dorking with the majority of the Dorking and Horley Rural District. [50]
Cherkley Court, at the extreme southeast of Leatherhead, Surrey, in England, is a late Victorian neo-classical mansion and estate of 370 acres (1.5 km 2), once the home of Canadian-born press baron Lord Beaverbrook.
Further land situated closer to Dorking town centre was sold for development in the 1930s. [35] The break up of the estate continued after Henry's death on 27 October 1947 [57] when it was inherited by his fourth son Roland, who became the third Lord Ashcombe. [60] Roland was born on 26 January 1899 and initially followed a career in the army. [61]
The Ven. Mark Wilson (born 1946), Archdeacon of Dorking, 1996–2005 [3] Sir Wilfrid Wentworth Woods KCMG KBE (1876–1947), colonial administrator [3] Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC (1892–1968), the first Territorial Army officer to win the VC [89] Sir Leonard Woolley (1880–1960), archaeologist [90]
The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering three former districts which were all abolished at the same time: [3] [4]. Dorking and Horley Rural District (except Horley and Salfords and Sidlow which went to Reigate and Banstead and parts of the parishes of Charlwood and Horley around Gatwick Airport which went to Crawley)