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40 unusual facts about Surrey


Alder Valley

As of February 2008, the company operated four routes on behalf of Surrey County Council: services 84 between Bisley and Camberley (Collingwood College), 85 (Ash and Collingwood College), 690 Winston Churchill School to Brookwood and Worplesdon and 828 Knaphill to Guildford.

Alexander Morison

He was made inspecting physician of lunatic asylums in Surrey in 1810, and 7 May 1835 physician to Bethlehem Hospital.

Algernon West

West was also a director of the South Eastern Railway and he caused a new station, named Wanborough but actually at Normandy, to be opened in 1891.

Alice E. Gillington

The family moved to Bisley, Surrey when her father found a role as a chaplain at the Brookwood Hospital, the local asylum.

American Board of Hospital Medicine

Canadian ABHM board member, Dr. Luay Dindo of Surrey, British Columbia, said, “The ABHM is not a subspecialty of another board of certification but a fully fledged, comprehensive board in hospital medicine. I believe that hospital medicine is its own specialty and necessitates a board of certification reflecting that fact.”

Angela Lascelles

In 1955, the Lascelleses moved to Fort Belvedere, Surrey, the former country home of Gerald Lascelles's uncle, Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor).

Anthony Kingston

Kingston married firstly, before October 1524, Dorothy Harpur, the daughter of Robert Harpur, and secondly, by 1537, Mary Gainsford, widow of Sir William Courtenay (d.1535) of Powderham, and daughter of Sir John Gainsford of Crowhurst, Surrey.

Army Operational Shooting Competition

Part of the Central Skill at Arms Meeting (CENTSAAM), it is based at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA) at Bisley Camp, in Brookwood, Surrey.

BIW Technologies

In January 2005, the company relocated its head office from London to Woking in Surrey.

Buxus sempervirens

Box Hill, Surrey is named after its notable box population, which comprises the largest area of native box woodland in England.

Chilworth railway station

Chilworth railway station serves the village of Chilworth, Surrey, England.

Coulsdon and Purley Urban District

It consisted of the main settlements of Coulsdon and Purley, both in the parish of Coulsdon, along with the parish of Sanderstead and (from 1933) Farleigh.

Daniel Eliason

Eliason killed himself some months afterwards, but before he did so he sold the diamond (this was in about 1830) to Henry Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey.

Evelyn Fox

Fox, who was General Secretary of the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at Lingfield, Surrey and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the London School of Economics, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).

Formica rufibarbis

In the 1927 edition of British Ants: their life histories and classification, Donisthorpe gives its distribution as being confined to Ripley, Chobham, Reigate and Weybridge.

Fort Belvedere

Fort Belvedere, Surrey, the country home of King Edward VIII, scene of his 1936 abdication

Francis William Beaumont

In 1924, while serving in the RAF, it was announced that Beaumont was engaged to Enid Corinne Ripley of Outwood, Surrey and in October 1926 the couple were married in London.

Gonocerus acuteangulatus

It is commonly known as the box bug in the UK as it once only occurred in Box Hill in Surrey where it fed on box trees.

Henry Maxwell Lefroy

He had studied at Guildford Grammar School in Surrey, where he became acquainted with the Stirling family and first developed an interest in the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth

Lord Falmouth married Hannah Catherine Maria Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith, of Worplesdon, Surrey, and widow of Richard Russel, in 1736.

James Weller Ladbroke

He had no children, and his heir was a distant cousin named Felix Ladbroke of Headley, Surrey, who found himself in possession of absolute title to the estate.

John Walwyn

His third wife was Joan née Cook, daughter of Robert Cook of Tandridge, Surrey, by whom he had two sons and one daughter.

Kenneth J. Warren

Kenneth John Warren (born 25 September 1929, Parramatta, New South Wales - died 27 August 1973, Effingham, Surrey, England) was an Australian actor.

Operation Willi

Edward, being notoriously lax in security, often left top secret government files sent to him unguarded in his Fort Belvedere residence, giving Mrs. Simpson every opportunity to do so.

Petrie polygon

In 1972, a few months after his retirement, Petrie was killed by a car while attempting to cross a motorway near his home in Surrey.

Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood

On 7 June 2004 he was made a life peer as Baron Gould of Brookwood, of Brookwood in the County of Surrey.

Pullingers

Pullingers Art Shop (aka Pullingers) is a chain of art shops with four retail outlets in Farnham, Kingston upon Thames and Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom and online at Pullingers.com.

Redfest

Redfest is an annual music festival at Robins Cook Farm, Kings Mill Lane, Nutfield, Redhill, Surrey, England.

Robin Roe

Roe became Rector of Merrow, Surrey (Diocese of Guildford) in 1982 and served there until his retirement in 1989.

He then moved to Shalford, Surrey and continued to take services within the diocese.

Silvester Jenks

Upon his return to England, he laboured as a missionary in or near London and was appointed Archdeacon of Surrey and Kent.

Thomas Cobham, 5th Baron Cobham

He died in 1471, without legitimate male issue, and was buried at Lingfield, Surrey.

Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow

He entered Parliament aged 22 or 23 for an underpopulated rural borough that had once had a market in the medieval period, Gatton, Surrey before moving to represent the larger settlement of Chichester, West Sussex.

Two-Way Stretch

The prison scenes were filmed at the West Cavalry Barracks at Aldershot, and the security van robbery at Pirbright Arch in the village of Brookwood in Surrey.

Upper Halliford

Elevations range between 12m AOD which applies for most of the village, with a maximum of 12.4m excluding bridge in the west, to 10.8m AOD in the residential road closest to one of the River Colne's many distribuaries, the River Ash.

Walter Watson Hughes

Hughes subsequently returned to England, bought the Fancourt estate at Chertsey, Surrey, and died there on 1 January 1887 after a long illness.

Westerham railway station

b) the difficult choice between boggy land in the valley bottom and the gradients encountered on the A25 route at Limpsfield and Nutfield,

William Dowton

He enjoyed good health to the last, and died at Brixton Terrace, Brixton, Surrey, 19 April 1851, in his eighty-eighth year.

William Kingston

Sir Anthony Kingston, who married firstly, before October 1524, Dorothy Harpur, the daughter of Robert Harpur, and secondly, by 1537, Mary Gainsford, widow of Sir William Courtenay (d.1535) of Powderham, and daughter of Sir John Gainsford of Crowhurst, Surrey.

Woking Council election, 2003

The election saw 13 seats being contested with the contest in Brookwood ward being a by-election after the previous Conservative councillor, Mark Pritchard, resigned his seat on the council.


1642 in poetry

John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed

1905 English cricket season

Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane.

Alexander McNeill

McNeill was educated Wimbledon, Surrey, England and at Trinity College, Dublin.

Alfred Beamish

Alfred Ernest Beamish (6 August 1879 – 28 February 1944) was an English tennis player born in Richard, Surrey, England.

Æthelwulf of Wessex

His most notable victory came in 851 at "Acleah", possibly Ockley in Surrey or Oakley in Berkshire.

Castleblayney

In 1853, Cadwallader Blayney, 12th Baron Blayney and sometime MP for Monaghan in the United Kingdom Parliament, sold the Castle and estate to Henry Thomas Hope from Deepdene in Surrey, a former MP at Westminster.

Chuck Cadman

Speeches honouring Cadman as a family man, parliamentarian, and advocate for victim's rights were made by Cadman's daughter, Jodi, Prime Minister Paul Martin, BC MLA Kevin Falcon, BC MLA Dave Hayer, Surrey Councillor Penny Priddy and several others.

Circular 10/65

As a result, a number of LEAs otherwise supporting the tripartite system, such as Bromley and Surrey, felt forced to go comprehensive.

Darell baronets

The Darell Baronetcy, of Richmond Hill in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 12 May 1795 for Lionel Darell, Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis and Hedon.

Dave Hayer

After defeating Doug McCallum, then the Mayor of Surrey, for the BC Liberal party nomination, Hayer served as the first Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the riding of Surrey-Tynehead.

Edgar Crow Baker

Baker was born in Lambeth, then part of Surrey, England, the son of Edward William Whitley Baker, and was educated at the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich.

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges

He was invested a Privy Counsellor in 1953 and in 1957 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bridges, of Headley in the County of Surrey and of Saint Nicholas at Wade in the County of Kent.

Elizabeth Whitlock

She and her husband returned to America for the years 1812–14, before settling at Addlestone, Surrey.

English cricket team in Australia in 1958–59

In 1958 life looked good for Peter May of Charterhouse, Cambridge, Surrey and England; his county had been County Champions for seven years running, with May the captain for the last two seasons, and England had never been defeated under his leadership.

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden

Restoration of the house and the formal gardens required immediate attention so work upon the woodland and water garden did not begin until the following year when he moved to South Walsham Hall from Surrey where he had already developed a garden at Bakenham House, Englefield Green.

Frederick Pepys Cockerell

This was soon followed by the planning and erecting of Down Hall, Essex ; Lythe Hill, Haslemere, Surrey ; and Crawley Court, near Winchester.

Guildford Black Friary

Guildford Black Friary was a medieval monastic house in Surrey, England.

Jack Agazarian

Jack Agazarian is honored on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, on the SOE memorial at Flossenbürg and also on the Roll of Honor on the Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay, in the Indre département of France

Jane Porter

Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who both lived in London and Surrey later on, were sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the historical painter.

Jardine baronets

The Jardine Baronetcy, of Godalming in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 January 1916 for John Jardine, Liberal Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire from 1906 to 1919.

John Penry

It was successively located at East Moulsey (Surrey), Fawsley (Northamptonshire), Coventry and other places in Warwickshire, and finally at Manchester, where it was seized in August 1589.

Joyce Wethered

She played most of her golf at (and was a member of) Worplesdon Golf Club in Surrey.

Juliana Azumah-Mensah

A year later, she trained in Midwifery at the Saint Peter’s Hospital at Chertsey in Surrey graduating in August, 1975 as a State Certified Midwife.

Khizar Humayun Ansari

Ansari is married and has two sons including the Surrey county cricketer, Zafar Ansari.

Kingsmill Key

In the course of a long career he played for, among others, Surrey (whom he captained for several years in the 1890s), Oxford University, MCC and the Gentlemen.

Leontine Cooper

Leontine was born in Battersea, Surrey to Frenchman Jean François (aka 'John Francis') Buisson and his English wife Dorothy.

Lewis Elton Gallery

The Gallery was named in 1997 after Professor Lewis Elton who initiated the display of original artwork at Surrey University's Physics Department in Battersea in 1963.

Loaded TV

The majority of shows are produced in house at the extensive Loaded TV studios in Hersham, Surrey.

Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale

He lived for many years in Englefield Green, Surrey, was chairman of the council of Royal Holloway College during its merger with Bedford College in 1985.

Roger Elliott

Roger leased Byfeld House in Church Road, Barnes, Surrey on 24 June 1712 where the couple settled and raised a small family.

Ronald Bassett

After devoting himself solely to writing for three years, in 1969 he returned to the pharmaceutical corporate world going to work as a public relations officer for E. R. Squibb & Sons, a post he held until 1975 when he and his wife retired to Surrey.

Samuel Dicker

Samuel Dicker ( died 1760), was an English politician who represented Plymouth in the British House of Commons in the eighteenth century, and was also responsible for the building of the first Walton Bridge in Surrey.

Samuel Ringgold Ward

Ward, having met Mrs. Stowe at the house of Rev. James Sherman next door to his Surrey Chapel on Blackfriars Road, in May 1853, was invited to stay at the 'Surrey Chapel Parsonage' along with Mrs Stowe's husband, the Rev. Dr. Stowe, and brother Rev. C. Beecher, for three weeks.

School District 36 Surrey

In May 2007, the Surrey School Board made national news when it voted to instruct teachers not to show Al Gore's Academy Award-winning documentary on Climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, until trustees are able to review the film.

Sidney Richard Percy

He moved after his 1857 marriage to the Florence Villas on Inner Park Road in Wandsworth, Surrey, and then moved his family about 1863 to Hill House in the village of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

South Surrey Park

South Surrey Park follows the course of Back Creek from Union Road in the north to Riversdale Road in the South.

Starborough Castle

The first Starborough Castle was the manor house of Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham, and 1st Lord Cobham of Sterborough, built in what was then the historic county of Surrey.

Surrey Record Society

The Society has also published two editions of registers of medieval bishops of Winchester, Surrey having historically formed part of the Diocese of Winchester.

Tandridge District

Tandridge is a local government district in Surrey, England containing part of the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of the Weald and the towns of Warlingham, Caterham, Oxted, Godstone and Lingfield.

Thomas Brend

Thomas Brend (c. 1516 – 21 September 1598) of West Molesey, Surrey, was a London scrivener, and the owner of the land on which the Globe Theatre was built.

TN postcode area

However TN14 also covers part of south east London, and TN16 covers part of south east London and Tatsfield in Surrey.

Vintage Motor Cycle Club

The Vintage Motor Cycle Club was founded on 28 April 1946, by 38 enthusiasts at the Lounge Cafe, Hog's Back, near Guildford in Surrey, for owners of motorcycles manufactured before December 1930.

Wilfred Nevill

Nevill joined the East Yorkshire Regiment but transferred to the East Surrey Regiment and was the originator of the East Surrey’s famous “Football Charge” on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.

Woking Palace

Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking on the outskirts of Woking, near the village of Old Woking, Surrey.