Edith's Streets

Thames Tributary River Mole The Mole flows west in this section The Rye stream flows south west towards the River Mole. Post to the west Fetcham Splash Post to the south Fetcham Post to the north The Rye Post to the east Leatherhead industrial railside   Cleeve Avenue PIRA Printing Industry Research Association, previously Printing and Packaging Research Assoc. Laboratories. Patra house was built 1963. The organisation dates from 1929 and was in London until the Second World War when they set up a packaging section. In 1948 PATRA moved its offices and laboratories here and in 1967 PATRA become the Paper and Board Printing Industries Research Association and new paper and board laboratories were built in 1971 Prewitts Farm, taken over by Unigate Kelvin Road Called Kelvin because of the electrical functions undertaken there. CERL. The Central Electricity Board, as the National Grid, had a laboratory at Croydon and During the Second World War this moved to a hut next to...

Thames Tributary River Mole The Mole flows north and west towards the Thames Post to the north Pachesham Post to the east Leatherhead Cannon Grove Cannon Court Manor House . Divided into flats. This was one of three manors in Fetcham and was pre-reformation was owned by Merton Priory who could have had some sort of religious foundation in the area. The house was at one time a school Cannon Side Cannon Court Evangelical Church Cobham Road Cast-iron distribution cabinet, probably used for street lighting control, may be seen at the south-east junction of Cobham Road and Lower Road embossed ‘Siemens 1880 London’ Tall cast-iron sewer vent pipe Common Meadow Sports Field This is the old common fields of leatherhead and protected from enclosure following a 1849 court award, Fetcham Pond and nature reserve This is the pond of the old corn mill. The Mill Pond springs are a large number of chalk springs, which provide water supply for the surrounding area. These springs eve...

Thames Tributary River Mole The Mole flows to the north east Post to the west Fetcham Post to the south Thorncroft Post to the east Leatherhead Fortyfoot Post to the north Leatherhead industrial railsie Bridge Street Bridge over Mole. Public road bridge late medieval. In the 17th and 18th there were so many complaints about the bridge that from 1760 it was kept locked and keys were only issued to those who paid. When the bridge came under the county authorities in 1782, it was rebuilt by the County Surveyor, George Gwilt. He reconstructed and widened it using the medieval stone piers and old bricks from Ashtead Park., It is a long low red brick structure of 14 arches on low piers and a high brick parapet rebuilt in 1988 with 4 semicircular refuges; and a central stone plaque saying "Built 1784". Surrey County Council refurbished it in 1989 leaving its appearance unchanged. Ford alongside the bridge used by most people before 1782. The electricity works destroyed t...

Thames Tributary River Mole. The Mole continues to flow north, and now slightly east Post to the north Leatherhead Post to the south Norbury Park Dorking Road Sewer vent pipe – a tall cast-iron column which is one of an ornate series exists, with a spiral embossed decoration near the base and a decorated section at the top. Downs Lane Vale Lodge . House built on the site of the old Rectory in 1780. Listed Grade II. Now divided into four. Built of brick, stuccoed and roughcast. Home to various wealthy people and used by the Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. Vale Lodge Stables . Riding school. Battleborough and Stable Lodge. Listed Grade II. Coach-house to Vale Lodge, now divided into two. 18th building in White-painted brick, and some flint. There were once two arched wagon entrances, Elmer Cottages This line of houses is surrounded by land which was part of the Leatherhead Water Works, previously Elmer Water Co. The water works land is thought to be on the line...

Thames Tributary River Mole The Mole continues to flow west and north Post to the north Thorncroft Post to the east Leatherhead Downs Post to the south Mickleham Bridge Croft Icehouse Combe The Norbury Park ice house is said to be ruinous Lilac Cottage Norbury Park Mickleham Tunnel. When this 524 yard tunnel was bored through the hill in Norbury Park estate, a condition was laid down by the Park’s owner, Thomas Grissell, that there should be no vertical shafts and that the portals should receive architectural treatment. Pressforward Bridge . This bridge, also Locke's Bridge, carries a drive to Norbury Park over the Mole. The four-arched bridge was built around 1780 and strengthened by Surrey County Council in 1990. Pressforward Cottages Norbury Park Farm. Producers of local blue cheese Norbury Park Farm Dairy. Late 19th Octagonal flint building with a wooden veranda, octagonal louvre and ornamental cast iron weathervane. Inside are white tiles with a blue borde...

Thames Tributary River Mole The Mole flows north west TQ 17341 54504 Posh area of housing and big houses on the edge of Box Hill and along the Mole Post to the west Norbury Park Post to the south Mickleham Byttom Hill Estate Cottages Cherkley Wood Bronze Age farmstead found nearby. Thatched buildings surrounded by a ditch Givons Grove Iron Age pottery found Wellbottom cottage Givons Grove house – at one time the home of H.Roe & Marie Stopes. The house has now gone. Leatherhead Downs North east is a double ditched trackway flanked by ‘Celtic fields’. There is also a large oval enclosure. Barrow in the area has been excavated and burial urns found. Probably Bronze or Iron Age. Radio Bungalow Mickleham Drive Sunpatch Stane Street Drive to Cherkely Court Cherkley Court the residence of Lord Beaverbrook from 1907. House c.1870, built for Abraham Dixon, and rebuilt again after a fire. Stuccoed brick. Pavilions and moulding and parapets and urns and balust...

Thames Tributary River Mole The Mole flows north east Post to the west Mickleham Post to the north Leatherhead Downs Byttom Hill Edward VII wall letter box by Allen is in the flint wall at the bottom of the hill King William IV. Rural pub, dates from 1790 Byttom Cottage . Built 1840 in flint with stone dressings. Casement windows with cast iron octagonal panes Almshouses. Built 1864 in flint with stone dressings. There is a central wing with extensions on either side. There are tall chimney stacks in clusters of 3 on either side of this central wing. 1-6 Elm Cottages. Early 19th Terrace Dell Close Burmester House . 18th house with later additions. . Faced with flints with red brick dressings, Downs Road This is part of an old Roman road, Stane Street which runs between Chichester and the Thames and which cuts straight across the older settlements and field systems on the Downs. Bronze Age and later field systems on the downs and around trackways London Road Forg...