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Ewhurst / ˈ j uː h ɜːr s t / is a rural village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England. It is located 8.3 miles (13.4 km) south-east of Guildford , 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Cranleigh , and 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Shere .
Founded in 1970 by Richard Jackson, [3] the main house is an Edwardian mansion set in 200 acres (0.81 km 2) in the Surrey Hills.The intern students, aged 16–19, organise their studies and leisure in 6 houses: The Hurtwood Main House, The Lodge, Peaslake House, Ewhurst Place, Beatrice Webb House and Cornhill Manor.
Hurt Wood Mill is a four storey brick tower mill with an ogee cap. It had four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft. The cap was winded by a fantail. The clasp arm Brake Wheel is wooden.
It includes the fifth and sixth highest points in Surrey, in the highest and most wooded part of the parish of Ewhurst, Pitch Hill and The Warren, at 257 and 251 metres above sea level respectively. [2] Its nearest settlements other than the most remote smallholdings and woodland cottages of Shere are Farley Green and Ewhurst.
The estate covers around 212 acres, situated in the Surrey hills, close to the village of Cranleigh north east along Barhatch Lane. Rising to about 700 ft. above the sea in Winterfold Hill, part of the great stretch of the heath and fir upland called Hurt Wood adjoining Blackheath to the north, and eastward rising still higher in Ewhurst, Holmbury, and Leith Hills, [2] in Ewhurst, Ockley, and ...
Clapton's house at the time was Hurtwood Edge, in Ewhurst, Surrey, [9] and he later said the month was possibly April. [8] Data from two meteorological stations in the London area show that April 1969 set a record for sunlight hours for the 1960s. The Greenwich station recorded 189 hours for April, a high that was not beaten until 1984.
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In the last decade of the 19th century a road from Ewhurst, practicable for wheeled vehicles, was the first one brought into Peaslake as district councils were instituted. [2] It was formerly accessible from the north, but was on the edge of the accessible country with no real road beyond.