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The Marquis of Granby is a public house at 2 Rathbone Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1.The pub is named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby.He is popularly supposed to have more pubs named after him than any other person – due, it is said, to his practice of setting up old soldiers of his regiment as publicans when they were too old to serve.
The Anchor, on Ripley High Street, has 2 AA rosettes and is listed as a Michelin Guide Restaurant. [6] The village high street includes two small supermarkets, cobblers and a bakery. The other pubs in the village are the Jovial Sailor on the western outskirts, The Ship Inn, The Seven Stars and The Half Moon.
Dorking (/ ˈ d ɔːr k ɪ ŋ /) is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi (34 km) south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre. The High Street runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Pipp Brook and along the northern face of an outcrop of Lower Greensand.
The Dorking manor house was on the site of the present St Martin's Walk (near the church, north of the High Street). It would appear that the Warennes (the Earls of Surrey) were rarely in residence (they preferred Reigate ) and the family (and their descendants) became even less interested in living in Dorking as they were 'promoted' first to ...
[16] [17] The larger barrow is 20 m (66 ft) in diameter and 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) high and, in medieval times, was used as a boundary marker or mere for the parish of Mickleham. [18] Traces of prehistoric field boundaries are visible on Burford Spur and the low flint banks on the steeper and more wooded White Hill may be contemporaneous. [18]
A branch of Waitrose is one of a number of other well known stores in the High Street. Pubs in New Malden include The Glass House (formerly The Railway), [18] Bar Malden [19] and The Grafton Club, [20] all adjacent to the train station; The Royal Oak, north of the station on Coombe Road; [21] Woodies Freehouse on Thetford Road; [22] [23] The ...
Friday Street is a hamlet on the gentle lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England. It is in a wooded headwater ravine, just to the south of Wotton and the A25 , a single rather than dual carriageway road, running between Guildford to the west and Dorking to the east.
Church of St John the Baptist. Capel in the Middle Ages developed only enough to have a chapel of ease, as a chapelry within the parish of Dorking. The chapel, which gives its name to the village, was first mentioned in a confirmation (1129–71) of a grant to the Priory of Lewes by the Earls of Warenne, consisting of 'Ecclesiam de Dorking cum Capella de la Wachna.' [4]