Whyteleafe village

At about this time, more land for gasworks use was bought alongside this new gasholder. In the Whyteleafe Gas Works were taken over by the Croydon Gas Company, which soon relinquished the site after dismantling the two gasholders on the west side of the Godstone road.

They kept the land on the other side, and the South Eastern Gas Board put up a new gasholder in , using the nearby buildings to house equipment to add a distinctive smell to the gas.

This was required by law when the area changed from town gas with its natural noxious odour to natural gas which has very little smell in its natural state.

Kenley waterworks started life in , and they extended their main supply pipe along the Godstone road into Whyteleafe within fifteen years. Whyteleafe is a village centred below the picturesque North Downs in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England.

To the west is the historic Kenley Aerodrome, to the east Riddlesdown which includes a Site of Special Scientific Interest and to the north is London which is easily accessible by road and rail. We would love to hear your feedback about any issues concerning you. Please visit our contact page to get in touch. Our area has a fascinating history.

Visit our History page to find out more about the history of our Parish. Skip to content Phone. Click here to hide this message. JavaScript is required for this feature, but it is either disabled or not supported by your browser.

Please enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser. Try this feature for free with a RouteYou Plus trial subscription. If you already have such an account, then log in now. Whyteleafe is a village in the district of Tandridge, Surrey, England, with a few streets falling inside the London Borough of Croydon.

The village, in a dry valley of the North Downs, has three railway stations. To the east are Riddlesdown, the Dobbin and Marden Park. The village forms part of the Greater London Built-up Area. Caterham Cars is a British manufacturer of specialist lightweight sports cars established in Caterham, Surrey, with their headquarters in Crawley, Sussex.

Their current model, the Caterham 7 , originally launched in , is a direct evolution of the Series 3 Lotus Seven designed by Colin Chapman. R, a joint project with Lola was released for customer testing in and was scheduled for release in The car was immediately embraced by enthusiasts as a low-cost, lightweight sports car and successful race car.

Revised Series 2, Series 3 and Series 4 versions were subsequently launched in , and respectively. Caterham is a town in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. The town is administratively divided into two: Caterham on the Hill, and Caterham Valley, which includes the main town centre in the middle of a dry valley but rises to equal heights to the south. The town lies close to the A22, 21 miles from Guildford and 6 miles south of Croydon, in an upper valley cleft into the dip slope of the North Downs.

Caterham on the Hill is above the valley to the west. It has some retail and restaurants in Caterham Valley as well as pubs dotted throughout. An encampment on the top of White Hill, in Caterham Valley south of Caterham School, between Bletchingley and the town centre is called The Cardinal's Cap which was excavated and inspected in designating it a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

With close ramparts forming two or more lines, archaeologists describe the fort as a "large multivallate hillfort at War Coppice Camp". Trainstation EN , NL. Woldingham railway station is on the Oxted line in the west of the civil parish and village of Woldingham in Surrey, England.

It is 17 miles 15 chains from London Bridge, although off peak trains run to and from London Victoria. The station is managed by Southern. The station opened as Marden Park in , one year after the line opened, with one waiting shelter and named after the manor in the west of Woldingham and north-east of Godstone.

The line was relatively late in the history of the railways due to the amount of earth-moving and chalk extraction required. The adjacent Station Lodge is at metres above sea level and path below the viaduct immediately to the north is at metres , as the track ascends the remainder of the cutting and immediately south of the station enters a cutting.

A tunnel follows to the south of approximately 1 mile. It was renamed Woldingham in Farleigh appears in Domesday Book of as the manor of Ferlega. Judging by the style of the western doorway of St Mary's Church, a date about the close of the 11th century is indicated, at least for the building of the first stone church. The present building is of field flints, with the original rough yellow plaster or mortar coat outside, and with dressings of local firestone and inside a little caen stone.

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