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The Home Guard company was disbanded four years later, once the threat of invasion had passed. Leatherhead experienced two main periods of bombing during the war. The first wave of attacks took place from late until early During the first raid, early in the morning on 27 August , 20 high-explosive bombs were dropped along the border with Ashtead. The clubhouse of the golf club suffered a direct hit, but the civilians taking cover in the shelter beneath it were fully protected and survived without injury.

In October of the same year, the oil storage tanks next to the waterworks were set alight by an incendiary bomb. The resulting fires could not be extinguished until more than 24 hours later. Leatherhead is in the Mole Valley parliamentary constituency , which has been represented in the House of Commons since by the Conservative , Sir Paul Beresford.

Councillors are elected to Surrey County Council every four years. The town is part of the ‘Leatherhead and Fetcham East’ ward. Five councillors represent the town on Mole Valley District Council the headquarters of which are in Dorking :.

Leatherhead is represented by a swan on the crest of the Mole Valley District Council coat of arms. The proportion of households who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of The first gas was produced in February and was primarily used for street lighting, but was also supplied to some private houses. In , the company was acquired by the Wandsworth Gas Company and the Leatherhead gasworks closed two years later.

The first public water supply in Leatherhead was created in , when a stream-driven pumping station was constructed in Waterways Road. The steam-powered works were demolished in An electricity generating station was opened in Bridge Street in Initially it was capable of generating 75 kW of power, but by the time of its closure in , its installed capacity was 2. In , the ring was connected to the Wimbledon -Woking main via a kV substation at Leatherhead.

Leatherhead Police Station was on Kingston Road, to the north of the town centre. It closed in The building was demolished and retirement apartments were built on the site. The Vestry was responsible for organising the local fire service in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

The west door of the parish church was enlarged in , in order to accommodate the town fire engine , which was housed in the tower. The first motor fire engine was delivered to the town in and was housed in a new building close to the river. The first hospital in Leatherhead was opened in Clinton Road in As a small cottage hospital , it only had seven or eight beds and was supervised by a matron. It was built on land donated by Walter Cunliffe , who lived at Tyrells Wood. Initially it had 40 beds and came under the management of Epsom Hospital, although it had its own medical committee.

By , the hospital had expanded to 52 beds, [] but in , the in-patient wards were closed to allow the improvement of outpatient services. Leatherhead railway station is to the west of the town centre and is managed by Southern. Leatherhead station is the northern terminus of the Mole Gap Trail , which rus south through Norbury Park to Dorking station.

The earliest record of a school in Leatherhead is from , when reference is made to a charity school for ten boys, which was probably held in the tower of the parish church. In a boys’ school was established in Highlands Road by the then Vicar, Benjamin Chapman, and a girls’ school followed a year later. Leatherhead Trinity School opened in , having been created by a merger of three existing schools. Trinity School is a primary school and educates children up to the age of eleven.

The school’s present site in Grange Road was opened in It moved to Dilston Road in [] and was renamed in after John de Therfield, a former lord of the manor of Pachesham, who was awarded the land in by King John.

The main building was constructed in and, in , the school became a co-educational comprehensive. West Hill School is a special school for children with learning needs. Downsend School was founded in Hampstead in [] and moved to its current site in stages between and In , girls were accepted into the sixth form and the school became fully coeducational from The School for the Indigent Blind was founded at St George’s Fields , Southwark in and, for the first years of its existence, was based in London.

The new school, capable of accommodating up to students, opened in By the mids, the focus of the school had changed from classroom-based learning to the teaching of practical skills in a workshop setting. During the Second World War, the building was requisitioned by King’s College Hospital and, although part of the premises were returned to the school in , a group of Chelsea Pensioners continued to live on the site until the s. Students were increasingly encouraged to take responsibility for their everyday living, with the aim of facilitating their integration into wider society.

The charity adopted the name ” SeeAbility ” as its operating identity in and, later in the same decade, began to transition away from offering residential education and towards providing community-based support. In the early s, the main school building was sold and converted to apartments. It is now known as Lavender Court. The church mentioned in Domesday Book is thought to have been an Anglo-Saxon minster , a large church with a small team of priests who ministered to the royal vill and its dependent parishes.

The Church of St Mary and St Nicholas is thought to have originally been built as the estate chapel for the manor of Thorncroft. Although it is not mentioned in Domesday book, the oldest parts date from around and it may have superseded the Anglo-Saxon minster as the parish church at the start of the 12th century. Shortly after , it was granted to Colchester Abbey , which held it until Much of the chancel dates from the first half of the 14th century and this work may have been commissioned by Leeds Priory in Kent , which was given the church by Edward III in The dedication to Mary and Nicholas , who were the joint patrons of the Priory, probably occurred at this time.

The tower was built in around and is set at an angle to the rest of the building, so that its east wall protrudes into the nave. It originally had a tall spire , which was blown down in the Great Storm of A major rebuilding of the church took place in the second half of the 19th century, during which much of the roof was replaced. John Wesley , the founder of Methodism , visited Leatherhead only once in his lifetime. On 23 February , he preached his final sermon in a house on Bull Hill, one week before his death.

The following year, the congregation numbered around 50, but grew rapidly to over by Two years later, a new brick building, the present church, was constructed. The Iron Chapel, behind the new church, remained standing and was used for the Sunday school , but was replaced in by a new hall.

The Disciples Church is part of the Calvary Chapel association of evangelical churches. It was formed in and adopted its present name in Turner — is among the artists who have been inspired to paint scenes of the town and local area.

His pencil and watercolour composition Leatherhead, Surrey, from across the River Mole, with cattle watering in the foreground was probably created in the summer of , when he staying at Norbury Park. The first presentation of a cinematograph film in the town took place at the Leatherhead Institute in October The following year, a second screening took place at the Victoria Hall in the High Street, which had been built in Further name changes took place before , around which time the venue became known as the Ace Cinema.

In , the Ace Cinema was converted to a seat theatre and a year later, the Leatherhead Theatre was established at the venue. The Thorndike Theatre , in Church Street, was designed by Roderick Ham in the modernist style [] [n 10] and was opened in by Princess Margaret.

Leatherhead features in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. Wells , first published in On about the tenth day following the Martian invasion of Earth, the entire town where the narrator has sent his wife for safety is obliterated: “it had been destroyed, with every soul in it, by a Martian.

He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant-hill, in the mere wantonness of power. During the story, Holmes and Watson travel to Leatherhead from Waterloo station by train.

Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan. The group performed at the Victoria Hall until , when the venue was turned into a cinema. For the next seventeen years, the society used a number of venues in the local area, until the Crescent Cinema opened in Since , the group has staged its summer performances at the Thorndike Theatre and the Leatherhead Theatre, with a brief hiatus between and It was refounded in to take part in the Leith Hill Musical Festival.

A musical work was composed by William Blezard to celebrate the society’s 50th anniversary in The Leatherhead Orchestra traces its origins to an adult education class established c.

The Leatherhead Town Band was founded in In , it changed its name again to the Mole Valley Silver Band, to reflect the formation of the new local authority area. Surrey Sound recording studio was established in by producer Nigel Gray in a former village hall in the north of the town.

Early demo pieces for, among others, the Wombles and Joan Armatrading were followed, by the recording of much of the early repertoire of the Police. The studio was sold by Gray in Robyn Hitchcock refers to Leatherhead in the song “Clean Steve”. Leatherhead has been mentioned in a number of films and television programmes. The film I Want Candy , released in March , is partly set in the town.

Brooklands College , Weybridge was used as the filming location for the fictional “Leatherhead University”.

Eric Idle , in Native American costume says, “When moon high over prairie, when wolf howl over mountain, when mighty wind roar through Yellow Valley, we go Leatherhead Rep – block booking, upper circle – whole tribe get it on three and six each. In one sketch, a librarian comments to a customer that she is “possibly one of the stupidest people I’ve ever met. And I lived in Leatherhead for six miserable years.

The Leisure Centre was opened in by the Leatherhead Urban District Council [] and was extended in the s with the addition of the Mole Barn. Cricket has been played at Leatherhead since at least , when a match is recorded against a team from Dorking. The Leatherhead Cricket Club was founded in [] and initially played its home games at the Kingston Road recreation ground.

It moved to Fetcham Grove in the s. Leatherhead F. Leatherhead Rose, founded c. Following the merger, the new club adopted Fetcham Grove as its home ground and, in the late s and early s, were champions of the Surrey County Senior League for four consecutive years. They were semi-finalists in the and FA Amateur Cup competitions. The hole course was designed by the Scottish golfer, Peter Paxton , and the first nine holes opened in October The Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour , was one of those who played at the course in The clubhouse suffered bomb damage during the Second World War.

The construction of the M25 motorway in the late s, necessitated changes to the layout of the southern part of the course. Pachesham Golf Centre opened in as a nine-hole course, but was remodelled in to a six-hole course.

The centre has a bay, floodlit driving range , which is the longest in Surrey. The 7, yard, par course opened in the grounds of Cherkley Court in Bocketts Farm covers an area of 52 ha acres to the south west of the town. It houses a wide range of historical artefacts and permanent displays explain the history of the town from its origins to the present day. Hampton Cottage, the building in Church Street in which the museum is based, dates from before The River Mole local nature reserve is a It was designed by the architect, Arthur Blomfield , and was built to serve a new area of housing under construction to the north of the town centre.

A decision was taken to convert the nave of the church to a community space, while retaining the chancel as a place of worship. The project supports disadvantaged young people, especially those not in education, employment or training , and provides opportunities for participants to gain employment and life skills.

Cherkley Court was constructed in around for Abraham Dixon, a wealthy industrialist from the Midlands. The building at 33 and 35 High Street, commonly known as “Cradlers”, is a late-medieval open hall house , formerly owned by the Manor of Thorncroft. It most likely originated as a farmhouse and was built on the edge of one of the common fields.

Although the earliest surviving records of the building date from , [] the construction methods used suggest that it was built in the 13th or 14th century most likely between and The larger eastern part number 35 was built as two storeys from the outset.

In the late medieval period, the rooms closest to the street were probably used as living quarters, but the northernmost third of the wing may have contained a workshop and hayloft.

Although much of its original timber frame survives, Cradlers has been altered at several points in its history. In the early modern period, Cradlers may have served as a tavern or hostelry [] and at different times in the 19th and 20th centuries, it housed a butchers, a fruiterers and a ladies’ outfitters. The Leatherhead Institute was built in It was given to the town by Abraham Dixon, [] who wanted the building to be used to provide educational, social and recreational opportunities to local residents.

The Running Horse pub, at the east end of Leatherhead Bridge, is one of the oldest buildings in the town. It is a late-medieval open hall house and was part of the Manor of Thorncroft. Much of the timber frame is original and probably dates from the late 15th century, although the roof was later rebuilt. Later alterations include the insertion of the first floor in the 17th century and installation of interior panelling in the 18th century.

Its name is thought to derive from “switch”, indicating that it stood close to a road junction. The southernmost part of the building is the oldest and dates from the 15th century. It was probably constructed as a farmhouse and originally it had an open hall structure.

The Mansion, in Church Street, houses the public library , register office and council offices. The external appearance of The Mansion largely dates from , when the house was rebuilt in red brick, although a partial remodelling took place c. In , The Mansion was subject to a compulsory purchase order and was acquired by Surrey County Council and Leatherhead UDC for use as a health clinic and the public library.

The current Thorncroft Manor house was designed c. It is built in a Neo-Palladian style, influenced by the early Rennaissence , with light Rococo ornamentation. The building was enlarged with the addition of a rear wing in , possibly designed by George Gwilt.

The arches face a terraced garden, in which there is a free-standing cross made of Portland stone. In total, names are inscribed on stone tablets inside the cloister-like structure, of whom died in the First World War.

Rose and H. Gardner and was constructed of red brick. The original council chamber is preserved at the rear of the property. The memorial gardens on Bull Hill, to the north of the town centre, were opened in , following the death of George V.

Leach Grove Wood is a 2. In the gardens, there is a memorial stone to Harold Auten , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in September There are two recreation grounds in Leatherhead. The Fortyfoot ground contains a children’s playground and a football pitch, as well as the bowling green for Leatherhead Bowling Club. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Leatherhead disambiguation. Human settlement in England. Mole Valley. South East.

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The settlement grew up beside a ford on the River Mole , from which its name is thought to derive. The first bridge across the Mole may have been constructed in around and this may have coincided with the expansion of the town and the enlargement of the parish church. For much of its history, Leatherhead was primarily an agricultural settlement, with a weekly market being held until the mid- Elizabethan era.

The construction of turnpike roads in the midth century and the arrival of the railways in the second half of the 19th century attracted newcomers and began to stimulate the local economy. Large-scale manufacturing industries arrived following the end of the First World War and companies with factories in the town included Ronson and Goblin Vacuum Cleaners.

Several organisations working with disabled people also opened treatment and training facilities, including The Royal School for the Blind , Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation and the Ex-services Welfare Society. Towards the end of the 20th century, manufacturing in Leatherhead had begun to decline and the town was instead starting to attract service sector employers. The former industrial areas were converted to business parks , which attracted multinational companies, including Esso and Unilever.

A controversial redevelopment took place in the town centre in the early s, which included the construction of the Swan Centre. The work, which also included the pedestrianisation of the main shopping area, was widely blamed for a decline in the local retail economy. In , the BBC identified Leatherhead as having one of the worst High Streets in England, but in , the local press described the town centre as “bustling”.

The origins and meaning of the name ‘Leatherhead’ are uncertain. The Anglo-Saxon and English forms are a distortion of the original British name. Leatherhead is a town in central Surrey , around 17 mi 27 km south of the centre of London. It lies on the southern edge of the London Basin and the highest point in the parish, at Leatherhead Downs, is m ft above ordnance datum. Leatherhead is at the southern edge of the London Basin , where the permeable upper chalk of the North Downs dips beneath the impermeable London Clay.

Several settlements were established along this spring line in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval times, including the villages of Ashtead , Fetcham and Effingham , which are linked to Leatherhead by the Guildford to Epsom road. The earliest evidence of human activity in Leatherhead comes from the Iron Age. Flints , a probable well and two pits were discovered in during building work on Garlands Road and the finds suggest that the site was also used in the early Roman period.

An Anglo-Saxon settlement at Leatherhead was most likely founded on the east side of the River Mole in the second half of the 6th century. A burial ground, dating to the same period, has been identified on the west side at Hawks Hill. Excavations uncovered the remains of at least 40 individuals and the artefacts found, including knives, buckles and necklaces, suggest that they were pagan burials. From the mid-9th century, Leatherhead was the centre of a royal vill , which encompassed Ashtead , Fetcham and Bookham.

The medieval history of Leatherhead is complex, since the parish was divided into a number of manors. Its Domesday assets were one church, belonging to Ewell , and 40 acres , m 2 of land. For the majority of its history, Thorncroft Manor appears to have remained as a single, intact entity, with the exception of the subinfeudation of Bocketts Farm , which took place before Her great-grandson, Richard de Montfichet , sold the manor to John de Cheresbure in around and it was next purchased by Philip Basset and his second wife, Ela, Countess of Warwick in around In contrast, the manor of Pachesham became fragmented as the Middle Ages progressed.

By the time of Domesday book, it was already divided into two parts, the smaller of which was later referred to as “Pachenesham Parva”. No written record of either part of the manor survives from the subsequent years, but in land belongong to Pachesham was recorded as passing to Eustace de Hacche. De Haache rebuilt the manor house in around , which he enclosed with a moat. In , one year after a serious fire had destroyed much of Leatherhead, Wimbledon defaulted on the rent and was accused of dismantling several of the manor buildings.

From the start of the 15th century, the land was divided between twelve lessees and the manor then disappears from the historical record. Surviving records of Pachenesham Parva from around suggest that it covered an area of 46 ha acres on the east bank of the River Mole, to the north west of the town centre. By the early 17th century, the area was known as Randalls Farm and, in , the associated land totalled ha acres.

Reforms during the Tudor period replaced the day-to-day administration of towns such as Leatherhead in the hands of the vestry of the parish church. Until , it also administered poor relief and was responsible for building a workhouse on Kingston Road in During the 19th century, local government reforms gradually removed the duties of running of the town’s infrastructure and services from the vestry. The Poor Law Amendment Act placed the workhouse in the care of a board of guardians at Epsom [48] and the Local Government Act transferred many administrative responsibilities to the newly formed Surrey County Council.

The Leatherhead Urban District Council UDC was formed six years later [49] and in the county council was placed in charge of the town’s National schools.

Leatherhead developed at a crossing point of the River Mole at the intersection between the north-south Kingston -Dorking and east-west Epsom-Guildford roads.

The original position of the ford is unclear, but it may have been around 90 m yd upstream of the present Leatherhead Bridge at a point where a continuation of Elm Road would meet the river. The first indication of a bridge at Leatherhead is a local deed dated to , which was witnessed by a “Simon of the Bridge”. Later that century, in around , a Peter Dryaw of Fetcham is recorded as mortgaging the annual rent of a house “at the bridge in the town of Ledderede” to Merton College, Oxford.

It is not clear to what extent the Mole was used for navigation in the past, but in the early Middle Ages, it is likely that shallow-bottomed craft were able to reach Leatherhead from the Thames for much of the year.

In the late 13th century, Thorncroft Manor purchased a shout , a type of boat up to 16 metres 52 ft in length, used to transport produce to market.

The turnpike road between Epsom and Horsham , which ran through Leatherhead, was authorised by Parliament in The line, which terminated at a station in Kingston Road, opened on 1 February The Mole Gap through the North Downs had been identified as a potential railway corridor as early as the s, but the line south from Leatherhead to Dorking was not opened until It was designed by C. Driver in a fine gothic revival style and is the station that survives today.

The two railway companies were amalgamated in , when the Southern Railway was formed. In the late s, a southward extension of the Chessington branch line was proposed, but the creation of the Metropolitan Green Belt prevented the scheme from being enacted.

The construction of the A24 bypass between Givons Grove and Leatherhead Common started in [71] and the final section opened in May The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted to Leatherhead in by Henry III. The construction of the turnpikes, and later the railways, attracted wealthier residents to Leatherhead. Many of these incomers had accumulated their wealth as entrepreneurs in London and had no previous connection to the area. By the start of the Victorian era , they were beginning to influence the local economy.

Small, family-based manufacturing firms began to grow, engaged in industries such as brick-making , milling of logs , tanning , shoemaking , malting and brewing. In the census , Larger-scale industries arrived in Leatherhead in the first half of the 20th century. In , the Rayon manufacturing company opened a factory in Ermyn Way, close to the border with Ashtead parish [77] and was replaced ten years later by the manufacturing plant for Goblin Vacuum Cleaners.

A business park opened in its place. The charity constructed a factory in the grounds to provide employment for disabled veterans, producing electrical items, such as electric blankets. In , the organisation opened a treatment centre at Tyrwhitt House in Oaklawn Road, named after Reginald Tyrwhitt , its president at the time. In , the factory was purchased by Remploy. It continued to manufacture electrical goods, but under the new ownership, its operations expanded to include the assembly and packaging of mechanical equipment.

Large-scale manufacturing in Leatherhead was short lived and, as the 20th century progressed, the town started to attract service sector industries. A controversial redevelopment of the road network in the town centre took place in the late s and early s. The project began with the demolition of the Prince of Wales pub in and the Swan Centre, a covered shopping centre with a multistorey car park , was constructed in its place.

At the same time a one-way system was created and the High Street was pedestrianised. Leatherhead began to expand at the start of the 20th century and the population grew from in 4, in to 5, in The first council housing in the town, a development of 59 houses in Poplar Road, was built by Leatherhead UDC in Preference for rehousing was given to ex-servicemen and their families.

In , 90 council houses were constructed in Kingston Road. The Givons Grove estate, to the south of the town, was developed in the late s and early s. Originally a constituent of Thorncroft Manor, it was an area of arable land, known as “Gibbons Farm”, named after a prominent local family.

Following the end of the Second World War, new housing was constructed to the north of the town centre, along Cleeve, Kingston and Copthorne Roads, to replace properties damaged by bombing. The recruits were primarily drawn from the Manchester area and underwent training at Randalls Farm. Concerns that the town’s water supply might be poisoned by enemy spies, prompted the authorities to arrange a guard on the waterworks on Guildford Road.

Many of the duties were undertaken by the local Scout troop and members of the Boy’s Brigade , which was affiliated with St Mary’s Church. By March it had 33 beds and was fully occupied. It closed in February Leatherhead was again a garrison town in the Second World War. Troops from the Royal Corps of Signals were billeted in late [] and a year later, the first Canadian soldiers began to arrive in the local area.

The cottage hospital on Poplar Road opened in May and by June of that year was treating 78 members of the British Expeditionary Force , who had been evacuated from Dunkirk. The training centres for the company included the Drill Hall on Kingston Road and an anti-tank obstacle was installed at the east end of the High Street, close to the Leatherhead Institute.

The Home Guard company was disbanded four years later, once the threat of invasion had passed. Leatherhead experienced two main periods of bombing during the war. The first wave of attacks took place from late until early During the first raid, early in the morning on 27 August , 20 high-explosive bombs were dropped along the border with Ashtead.

The clubhouse of the golf club suffered a direct hit, but the civilians taking cover in the shelter beneath it were fully protected and survived without injury. In October of the same year, the oil storage tanks next to the waterworks were set alight by an incendiary bomb. The resulting fires could not be extinguished until more than 24 hours later. Leatherhead is in the Mole Valley parliamentary constituency , which has been represented in the House of Commons since by the Conservative , Sir Paul Beresford.

Councillors are elected to Surrey County Council every four years. The town is part of the ‘Leatherhead and Fetcham East’ ward. Five councillors represent the town on Mole Valley District Council the headquarters of which are in Dorking :.

Leatherhead is represented by a swan on the crest of the Mole Valley District Council coat of arms.