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Dorking and Mole Valley Athletics Club is based at Pixham Sports Ground. They host the annual Dorking Ten road race starting from Brockham Green. [281] The weekly Mole Valley Parkrun has taken place at Denbies Wine Estate since March 2018. [282] [283] The vineyard also hosts the annual Run Bacchus marathon. [284]
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)
South Holmwood (/ h oʊ m w ʊ d /) is a semi-rural village in Surrey, England.It can be considered cognate with its wider civil parish, which stretches to the east to embrace Holmwood Common, but does not include Mid Holmwood, or North Holmwood, the latter being contiguous with Dorking.
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. The main house is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. [1]
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]
In 1983, by then playing in the Isthmian League, the club reverted its name to Dorking F.C. [6] In 1989–90 season Dorking reached the final of the Surrey Senior Cup, one of the oldest cup competitions with the first final contested in 1882–83. This was an achievement the club had only once previously managed in 1885–86 season some 104 ...
Mickleham is a village in south east England, between the towns of Dorking and Leatherhead in Surrey. The civil parish covers 7.31 square kilometres (1,810 acres) and includes the hamlet of Fredley. [2] The larger ecclesiastical parish includes the majority of the neighbouring village of Westhumble, [3] from which Mickleham is separated by the ...
Denbies is a large estate to the northwest of Dorking in Surrey, England. A farmhouse and surrounding land originally owned by John Denby was purchased in 1734 by Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens in London, and converted into a weekend retreat. The house he built appears to have been of little architectural significance, but ...