Post to the north Warwick Wold
Post to the east - end of posts
Post to the south Nutfield Brook Bletchingly
Post to the west Nutfield Marsh
Glebe
Quarry
Glebe Quarry. Work on the M23 in 1972 (not
surprisingly) exposed fuller's earth when the motorway alignment intersected
the A25. This stimulated extraction in the area north of the ridge between Nutfield Church
and the line of the motorway. This lasted until the late 1980s. Subsequent
landscaping has left a lake at the north
west corner of the site. Apart from the water, this
is part of a large fuller's earth pit left in its working state.
Pendell Road
Pendell Court red-brick built in 1624. a large Jacobean mansion
standing in a picturesque and well-wooded park and now occupied by the Retired Services Club. a many-gabled
mansion in a pleasant park
East Surrey Water
Company Pump House Site 138
Pendell
House. has been attributed to Inigo Jones 1636.
Pendell
Camp. Operations Room. When the M23 was constructed it severed a WWII site at Pendell Camp.
This military camp was started in 1938 and was associated with a searchlight
battery. For some time after the war, huts on the site were used for
non-military purposes. In 1961 the inhabitants of Tristan da Cuna were evacuated there because
their island was threatened by volcanic action. After the arrival of the
motorway, Gipsies took over the eastern part of the site. On the western part
of the site, a military bunker still exists in an active state. This is presumably
the WWII operations room but refurbished for nuclear war. In the book, War Plan UK, by Duncan
Campbell (1983), the site is described as originally an anti-aircraft operations
room, but as the Metropolitan Police War HQ (South) in its latter day
Pendell mill
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