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Netherne Asylum was founded on 18 October 1905 [1] to alleviate overcrowding at the existing Brookwood Asylum near Woking.The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine, Consultant Architect to the Commissioners in Lunacy to hold 960 patients. [2]
One of the several golf courses in Woking's borough in the mid/north-west of the county (from Portal:Surrey/Selected pictures) Image 3 The town of Dorking and its section of the Vale of Holmesdale from Box Hill in the North Downs, with more heavily wooded Greensand Hills beyond.
The county borders Berkshire, Greater London, Hampshire, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. The county town is Guildford. Surrey is divided into 11 non-metropolitan districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking. This portal covers all aspects ...
Among the most notable collections are the official records of Surrey County Council since 1889; the historical records of the Mores and More-Molyneux of Loseley Park, near Guildford; [5] the records of the many mental hospitals in the county; [6] Philip Bradley's collection of fairground photographs; [7] papers of Lewis Carroll and "Carrolliana"; [8] the papers of the Labour politician and ...
This is a list of towns, villages and most notable hamlets and neighbourhoods in Surrey, a ceremonial and administrative county of England.. For lists relating to parts of London formerly in Surrey, see the London Boroughs of Croydon, Kingston upon Thames (Royal Borough), Richmond upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth.
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the demise of Surrey's long-standing industries manufacturing paper and gunpowder. Most of the county's paper mills closed in the years after 1870, and the last survivor shut in 1928.
In 1949, 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. [278] During a refurbishment in 2000, the library was moved from the ground floor to the south range and the space released was repurposed for the Registry Office. [278 ...
Surrey Archaeological Collections. 53: 42– 43. Surrey Archaeological Society (1955). "Excavations by the Society – supplementary list". Surrey Archaeological Collections. 54: 134– 135. "150 years and still digging: Surrey Archaeological Society 1854–2004". Current Archaeology. 192: 568– 71. June 2004.