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The South Street caves were sold to Dorking UDC in 1921 and were leased by the council to various local wine merchants until the 1960s. The Dorking and Leith Hill Preservation Society first opened the caves for public tours in the 1970s. [104] Dorking Museum assumed responsibility for running tours in May 2015.
The mansion on the estate in about 1840, when it was owned by the Denison family. Denbies is a large estate to the northwest of Dorking in Surrey, England.A farmhouse and surrounding land originally owned by John Denby was purchased in 1734 by Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens in London, and converted into a weekend retreat.
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.
In July 1943, the Dorking and Leith Hill Preservation Society (chaired by the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams) decided to purchase the terrace and garden, which were immediately transferred to Dorking Urban District Council. Covenants were placed on the land to ensure that it was kept "as a natural and peaceful woodland pleasure resort for the ...
Dorking was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Dorking and Horley in Surrey. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 – 1983. In the eight elections during its 33-year lifetime it was held by three Conservatives successively.
St Martin's Church is an Anglican parish church in Dorking, Surrey. It is a Grade II* listed building and surviving parts of the structure date back to the Middle Ages. It in the archdeaconry of Dorking, in the Diocese of Guildford. The church is the main Anglican parish church in Dorking and was refurbished to the designs of Henry Woodyer. [2]
Milton Court, at the far west of the town of Dorking, is a 17th-century country house in Surrey. The court was expanded and substantially rebuilt by the Victorian architect William Burges and is a Grade II* listed building. The listing includes the attached forecourt walls, balustrading, terrace, piers, urns and stone-carved ball finial. [1]
Vineyard, July 2009. Denbies is situated on the North Downs, which are a range of chalk hills the topsoil of which consists of fertile loam interspersed with flints. From 1986 to 1989 White had the south-facing slopes planted with vines, which cover 265 acres (1.07 km 2) of the 627-acre (2.54 km 2) estate, the remainder of which is woodland and pasture.