Dorking, Surrey - Mickleham Woods, Mole Valley - Dixon postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Mickleham Woods, Dorking, Surrey - above Mole Valley
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon (Surrey 446)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Mickleham is a village and civil parish^[2] between the towns of Dorking and Leatherhead in Surrey, England covering 7.31 square kilometres (1,800 acres). The parish includes the hamlet of Fredley.

Mickleham lies near to the old Roman road known as Stane Street. Then, acquiring its Old English based name, the small settlement lay within the Copthorne hundred used for meetings of the wealthy and powerful for strategic purposes in Anglo-Saxon England.

Mickleham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Michelham and Micleham. It was partly held by Nigel from the Bishop of Bayeux and partly by Oswald from (under) Richard de Tonbridge. Its domesday assets were: 7 hides; 1 church, 7 ploughs, 3 acres (12,000 m²) of meadow, woodland worth 4 hogs. It rendered £10 per year to its overlords.^[3]

Ninety Victorian workmen, 'considered navvies' died in an accident when a tunnel they were working on collapsed through Norbury Park within the parish. The village has featured prominently in cycling, following the loops of Box Hill adopted by various versions of the London-Surrey Cycle Classic which has acquired a federation of European cycling points status as an annual event, since its use in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

The surrounding area contains many Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) including the Mickleham Downs and panoramic beauty spot of Box Hill.

The River Mole flows nearby and indeed as its name suggests the river in places goes underground due to the chalk bed being dissolved in places forming swallow holes (Sinkholes). Ian Middleton tells of his father, sometime in the 1950s, the village police officer P.C. Middleton, looking past his bathroom mirror one morning whilst shaving to see a mature oak tree disappear into the ground. It turned out that the river flowing underground had been gradually wearing away the supporting ground under the tree forming a giant such hole which had collapsed. The subsequent pit was not filled in until 1968 approx when it was still 30 ft deep and 30 ft across. P.C. Middleton also reportedly removed parts from an unexploded V2 rocket which fell in the village during World War II.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

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county/ country=surrey

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period=1945 - present

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