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Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England.Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.
The free-draining Lower Greensand found in the Dorking area is particularly suited for rearing chickens and the local soils provide grit to assist the birds' digestive systems. [98] The Dorking fowl, which has five claws instead of the normal four, is named after the town. [99] [note 15]
Lagonisi is located approximately 30 km southeast of Athens and 35 km northwest of Cape Sounio. [1] Restaurant facilities, cafeterias and bars are located mainly at the heart of Lagonissi, close to Kalyvion Avenue (the road connecting Lagonissi with Kalyvia Thorikou). It is part of Athens metropolitan area. [2] [3]
Sean's Bar is a pub in Athlone, Ireland, notable for its reputed establishment in AD 900, [1] [2] [3] and claim to being the oldest extant bar in Ireland. [1] However, architectural and archaeological records, including the Record of Monuments and Places and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, date the building to the 17th or 18th century.
It has a church [1] and a pub, the Plough Inn. [2] Nearby is Broome Hall House, built around 1830 for the politician and printer Andrew Spottiswoode and later owned in the 1970s by legendary actor, Oliver Reed .
Westcott is a village in central Surrey, England, about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) west of the centre of Dorking.It is in the Mole Valley district and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Nowadays, with the exception of Holmwood Station, the plain term Holmwood is normally used only to refer to three settlements, North, Mid, and South Holmwood, that are all close to Dorking; the area with 600 homes around Holmwood Station has been commonly known since at least as far back as the early 1960s as Beare Green, [citation needed ...
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]