North Holmwood is a residential area on the outskirts of

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, in

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. The village is accessible from the

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, the village's historic heart is the road Spook Hill. The 2011 census for the broader area ''Holmwoods'' shows a population of 6,417 and that North Holmwood forms part of the Dorking Built-up Area.

The village

The village has a main street called Spook Hill, in which there is a

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. There are other main built up roads: Bentsbrook Road, Bentsbrook Park (no through roads) and Holmesdale Road leading to Inholms Lane, completing a circuit, and smaller roads and estates such as St John's, making the village larger than it first appears. The residential area of Stonebridge in the east is linked by residential roads to Spook Hill, as is Chart Downs across Bent's Brook. There is a village hall, a clinic called Holmwood Surgery and a local sports and social club. There is a pond on the common alongside Spook Hill. The Deepdene north of Chart Downs includes Chart House, built by wealthy banker, connoisseur and collector Thomas Hope, extended to include Chart Park, an immense

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with commanding views to his son and the house itself came to inspire

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. The grade II* grounds have been converted, since 1897, int
Dorking Golf Club
This long-established course and now wider venue is closer to Chart Downs and Stonebridge neighbourhoods than

and is a source of local employment. The main estate in North Holmwood occupies the former site of Dorking Brickworks, which was a major local employer from the 1930s until its closure in 1983. The brickworks used up the clay surrounding it, ran out of space in the 1950s and extended south of Inholms lane in 1961. The clay supply was exhausted and the brickworks closed in 1983. After demolition, the brickworks land north of Inholms lane was used to build residential housing, while the smaller excavation south of Inholms lane was designated a nature reserve, now the Inholms clay pit LNR, open to all and accessed by a tunnel under Inholms lane.

The parish church

A parish of Holmwood was created from parts of Dorking and Capel parishes in 1839.St John the Evangelist Church website
Retrieved 5 August 2017 The parish church was built of flint in Early English style and consecrated in 1875. The tower contains two bells and a clock. The east window of the chancel has stained glass from 1874 made by Messrs Powell of White Friars. The west windows of the

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have glass designed by

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from 1891 showing the four Fathers of the Western Church. St John's Grade II

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entry

Transport

North Holmwood has two bus stops located either side of the newsagent's shop. The nearest railway station is Dorking north. There is also a station called " Holmwood" which is the station located on the far side of

South Holmwood South Holmwood () is a semi-rural village in Surrey, England. It can be considered cognate with its wider civil parish, which stretches to the east to embrace Holmwood Common, but does not include Mid Holmwood, or North Holmwood, the latter ...

, over away.

References

External links

Church website-history of parishSports and Social ClubHistory of Holmwood Common and the surrounding villages, eminent residents and key sites of architectural interestDorking Golf Club
{{authority control Villages in Surrey Mole Valley