Cobham () is a large village in the
Borough of Elmbridge in
Surrey
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, England, centred south-west of London and northeast of
Guildford
Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The nam ...
on the
River Mole. It has a commercial/services
High Street, a significant number of primary and private schools and the
Painshill landscape park.
Toponymy
Cobham appears in
Domesday Book
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of 1086 as ''Covenham'' and in 13th century copies of earlier charters as ''Coveham''. It is recorded as ''Cobbeham'' and ''Cobeham'' in the 15th century and the first use of the modern spelling "Cobham" is from 1570. The name is thought to derive from an Anglo-Saxon landowner either as ''Cofa's hām'' or ''Cofa's hamm''. The second part of the name may have originated from the
Old English
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''hām'' meaning a settlement or enclosure, or from ''hamm'' meaning land close to water.
The area of the village known as Cobham Tilt, is first recorded as ''la Tilthe'' in 1328. The name is thought to derive from the Old English ''Tilthe'', meaning "cultivated land".
History
Cobham is an ancient settlement whose origins can be traced back on the ground through
Roman times to the
Iron Age
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. It lay within the
Elmbridge hundred
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In mathematics
100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...
.
Cobham appears in
Domesday Book
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as ''Covenham'' and was held by
Chertsey Abbey. Its Domesday assets were: 12½
hides; 3
mill
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Science and technology
* Factory
* Mill (grinding)
* Milling (machining)
* Millwork
* Paper mill
* Steel mill, a factory for the manufacture of steel
* Sugarcane mill
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* Mill, the arithmetic ...
s worth 13s 4d, 10
plough
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s, 1 alike unit of
meadow
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,
woodland
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worth 40
hogs. It rendered altogether £14 per year to its
feudal system
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overlords.
Historically, Cobham other than outlying farms comprised two developed areas, Street Cobham and Church Cobham. The former lay on the Portsmouth-London Road, and the building now known as the Cobham Exchange was once a coaching inn. The latter grew up around St Andrew's Church, which dates from the 12th century. Although much altered and extended in the 19th century, the church preserves a
Norman tower and is a Grade I
listed building
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(the highest architectural category).
In 1649, the
Diggers
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established a new community at
Little Heath following their expulsion from nearby
St George's Hill,
Weybridge
Weybridge () is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a cro ...
. The community met some success, with cultivated, six houses built, winter crops harvested, and several pamphlets published. The local lord, of the manor, Parson
John Platt, despite initial sympathy, rallied gangs to attack the community and prevent locals in assisting them. Platt and local landowners drove the community out in April 1650.
The village's population was reported as 1617 inhabitants in 1848. The arrival of the railway in the 1880s led to the expansion of the original village, the eastern fields and southern areas towards the railway station becoming suburbanised during the 20th century. A 1960s improvements scheme widened the entrance to the High Street from River Hill to the south which was very narrow, removing a few historic and picturesque buildings, replacing some with less ornate brickwork glass-fronted buildings suitable as shops. Subsequently, the High Street has developed into a local shopping centre.
In 1951 the
civil parish
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had a population of 7885. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished.
Aviation and motor industries

Cobham is from
Brooklands and played host to associated and its own aviation and motoring activity in the 20th century. Leading motor engineer and car designers
Reid Railton and
Noel Macklin set up a manufacturing facility, building
Railton road cars at the Fairmile Works from 1933 to 1940. An example is displayed at
Brooklands Museum in the same borough.
In
World War II
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, after a major aircraft factory,
Vickers-Armstrongs
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, w ...
, at Brooklands was bombed by the Luftwaffe on 4 September 1940, with heavy loss of life and many more injured, the Vickers Experimental Department was quickly dispersed to secret premises on the Silvermere and Foxwarren Park estates along Redhill Road. Engineer and inventor
Barnes Wallis
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack ...
also carried out important trials catapulting models of his 'Upkeep'
bouncing bomb
A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both the bomb's speed on arrival at the target and the timing of its detonation to be predeterm ...
across Silvermere Lake around 1942 and conducted spinning trials with larger prototypes at 'Depot W46' (the largest of the three dispersed sites). Vickers had numerous other wartime dispersed depots locally and those within the boundaries or whose nearest village was Cobham included Corbie Wood and Riseholme (on Seven Hills Road), Conway Cottage and Norwood Farm.
Despite its proximity to Brooklands and Wisley airfields (both active until the early 1970s), Cobham saw relatively few aircraft crashes. Most notable was a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter which flew low over Brooklands apparently in trouble and crashed at Cobham on 16 March 1944; the pilot survived and little else was published of this incident.
During World War II aircraft company
Airspeed Ltd
Airspeed Limited was established in 1931 to build aeroplanes in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway (the aeronautical engineer and novelist, who used his forenames as his pen-name). The other directors were A. E ...
set up a design office at Fairmile Manor which designed the civil aircraft the
Airspeed Ambassador before moving back to Portsmouth in the late 1940s.
After the war, Vickers' Experimental Department continued to use two of the Redhill Road sites (now known as 'Foxwarren') and built aircraft prototypes there such as the
Viscount
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In the case of French viscounts, the title is ...
airliner and
Valiant V-bomber, until it moved back to the main factory at Brooklands in the late 1950s.
In the 1970s residents Mike Chambers ran a business building Huron Formula Fords and a Formula Atlantic car at the Silvermere works and Geoff Uren prepared the BMW team saloon cars and
Graham Hill's Jägermeister-sponsored Formula 2 car.
From 1972 to 2011 Cobham Bus Museum occupied an ex-aircraft hangar (used mainly by Vickers-Armstrongs as a machine shop) next to Silvermere golf course in Redhill Road. The bus museum reopened as the
London bus museum at
Brooklands Museum on 1 August 2011. The former premises have been replaced by a care home.
Geography
Boundaries
Cobham fits into a triangle between the River Mole to the south, the
A3 to the north and a borderline for the most part on the nearside of the
(New) London to Guildford railway line to the southeast – directly west of
Oxshott. On the southern border is the historic village,
Stoke D'Abernon
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, part of the small
post town
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, which gives its name to the railway station between the two areas on the line mentioned:
Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon.
Other
;Soil
The village neighbourhoods of
Downside (south) and Fairmile (east). The longstanding built-up areas resemble the adjacent fertile east banks of the Mole such as at landscape garden Painshill Park on free-draining gravel topped with layers of
alluvium
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. This contrasts with the steep west bank, acidic sandy
heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a coole ...
, which underlies the highest land on all the outskirts, residual outcrops of the
Bagshot Sands (Formation). These isolate Cobham village historically,
Esher Commons,
Oxshott Heath and Woods and the Redhill Common part of
Ockham and Wisley Commons.
;Elevation
Watershed points, or in international terms
drainage divides, are at the summits of the sides of the lower Mole Valley, attaining and towards the east close to
Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon respectively.
The
River Mole runs through Cobham, with a visitor area and well-surfaced path by the mill in the High Street, dividing the remaining agricultural parts of Cobham in the west and south. Elevation reaches a minimum here of
above sea level
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.
[Grid square map]
Ordnance survey
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website Retrieved 2013-10-13
;Demography
Cobham used to have two
wards; the Cobham Fairmile ward has a population of 4,760 neighbouring Cobham and Downside has a population of 6,158. Cobham Fairmile ward has been abolished and is now part of the Oxshott and Stoke d'Abernon Ward.
Landmarks

At the heart of Cobham is the Church Cobham Conservation Area, which was designated in 1973 and includes fourteen statutory listed buildings. Amongst these are Pyports, once the home of
Vernon Lushington; the picturesque Church Stile House; and two fine houses overlooking the
River Mole: Ham Manor and Cedar House, the latter owned by the
National Trust
The National Trust () is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the ...
.
The
Cobham Park estate was the home of
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, (born Jean Louis de Ligonnier; 7 November 168028 April 1770), styled Sir John Ligonier from 1743 to 1757, was a French-born British soldier and politician who fough ...
, once
Head of the Armed Forces. In 1806, the estate was bought by
Harvey Christian Combe, a brewer and
Lord Mayor of London
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. The present house was completed in 1873 by his nephew, Charles Combe, to a design by
Edward Middleton Barry: It has now been divided into apartments.
Painshill Park is a fine 18th-century landscape garden, restored from dereliction since 1980.
Painshill House dates from the 18th century and has also been divided into apartments.
Two other large houses on the outskirts of Cobham have been taken over by schools: Heywood is now the
American Community School, and Burwood House is now
Notre Dame School.
The Chelsea F.C. training ground is also nearby.
Cobham Mill

The
River Mole provides a setting for the red brick water mill, constructed in the late 18th century and once part of a much larger complex. It stands on the site of earlier mills dating back to the
Middle Ages
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. The mill was in use until 1928, when it became uneconomical to continue operating. Thereafter it was used as a storehouse.
During
World War II
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, a Canadian tank collided with the main building, causing much damage.
In 1953 the main part of the mill was demolished by
Surrey County Council to alleviate traffic congestion on Mill Road. This left just the grist mill standing.

In 1973 the Cobham Conservation Group was formed, later to become the Cobham Conservation and Heritage Trust, and one of its main objectives was to rescue the much deteriorated grist mill building from sliding into the river as a result of water erosion of the mill island. In 1986 the freehold of the mill was taken over by the
Thames Water Authority who, as part of their flood control expenditure rebuilt the weirs nearby and shored up the mill's foundations.
Thereafter, the Cobham Mill Preservation Trust was formed as a sister organisation to the Cobham Conservation Group and took over the leasehold. The building was restored to full working order by the volunteers of the Cobham Mill Preservation Trust, and first opened to the public in 1993. Cobham Mill is now open to the public from 2 pm to 5 pm on the second Sunday of each month between April and October, inclusive.
Education
St Andrew's Primary School is located in the village as is
Cobham Free School which is an all-through school. A local prep school is
Feltonfleet School. There are three independent schools:
Notre Dame;
ACS (The American Community Schools) Cobham International and
Reed's School.
Local leisure and entertainment
Painshill Park is nearby and Silvermere golf course is located in Redhill Road on the north side of the A3. Cobham has four football clubs:
Cobham F.C.,
Mole Valley SCR F.C., Cobham United Football Club and Cobham Town FC (formed 2007). Cobham also has a cricket club, Cobham Avorians, formed in 1928. Avorians was named after its founder, local landowner Edward James Avory, and originally played at the Fairmile Estate before re-locating to Convent Lane on the Burwood Estate in 1948.
Cobham Rugby Football Club has four teams which play regularly, as well as youth and mini sections. There is Cobham Village Club and a branch of the
Royal British Legion
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Membership
Service in th ...
. Cobham Players regularly present plays, musicals, pantomimes and other entertainments in Cobham.
Walton Firs Activity Centre lies just off the A3 in Cobham and covers 28 acres. It takes its name from Colonel Walton, who dealt with the purchase of the site in 1939. It was used by a Royal Artillery
anti-aircraft
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battery during
World War II
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and in peacetime returned to use as a Scout camp site. During the 1990s some 3,000 additional trees were planted, and more recently an all-weather barn and an artificial, but realistic, caving complex have been added.
Politics
Parliament and local
The
Member of Parliament (MP) is
Conservative
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Ben Spencer, elected in 2019 as the successor to
Dominic Raab
In local government Cobham is part of
Elmbridge Borough Council and
Surrey County Council. Until 2016, Cobham was divided into two wards, Cobham Fairmile and Cobham & Downside for Elmbridge voting. Following boundary changes in 2016, Cobham was divided between a newly drawn Cobham and downside ward and an expanded Oxshott & Stoke d'Abernon ward, with the Fairmile name disappearing. There are six councillors covering the two new wards, 4 Conservative and 2 Liberal Democrat as from May 2023. Cobham councillor James Browne was Leader of Elmbridge Borough Council in 2019. For Surrey County voting, Cobham is paired with
Stoke d'Abernon
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.
Cobham has many old buildings, conservation areas and housing development pressures. It has a very active Heritage Trust, re-formed in 2007, and a lower-profile Residents Association. Unlike neighbouring areas in Elmbridge, Residents and amenity groups do not contest local elections in Cobham; occasionally independents have stood, such as in a 2007 by-election. The only non-Conservative elected was a Liberal/Focus councillor, Mike King in 1984 in the Fairmile ward, which includes some high density social and private housing beside the
A3, as well upmarket private estates. Cobham and Downside ward includes the village centre, private estates off the
A245 Stoke Road, semi-rural
Downside and Hatchford, Ockham south of the
M25.Since a by election in July 2021, the Liberal Democrats have taken 2 out of the 3 Cobham seats on Elmbridge B.C.
Since the 2013 Surrey County election, the local Member for Cobham is Conservative, Mrs Mary Lewis who serves as Cabinet member for Children, Young People and Families. A Cobham & Downside member on
Elmbridge, Mike Bennison since 2005 also represents the next 3 stops up the line to London
Oxshott Claygate and
Hinchley Wood on
Surrey County Council.
British Army
Following the formation of the
Territorial Force
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in 1908, the village for recruiting, was granted to the 6th Battalion,
The East Surrey Regiment which maintained a platoon from A Company. The village also maintained the "Sandyroyd School Troops of Scouts".
Road and rail links
To the north and west of the village is the
A3 trunk road, a major arterial route from London to
Portsmouth
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. This road links to the
M25 motorway
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at Junction 10, immediately to the southwest of Cobham.
* The
A307, Portsmouth Road starts in Cobham and runs northwards to the adjoining town of
Esher
Esher ( ) is a town in the borough of Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole, Surrey, River Mole.
Esher is an outlying suburb of London, close to the London–Surrey border; with Esher Commons at its ...
. This is also known as the "old A3".
* The
A245 runs through the centre of the town and leads to
Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, about south of Central London. The settlement grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, from which its name is thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon ...
in the south-east and
Byfleet to the west.
Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon railway station, opened in 1885, is on the
New Guildford line from
London Waterloo.
Police and fire services
The closest public desk and offices of Surrey Police is at the Civic Offices, Elmbridge Borough Council, in Esher.
Surrey Fire & Rescue Service, called Painshill Fire Station, has a full-time day crew together with:
* 1 water tender ladder
* 1 incident command unit
* 1
HIAB Unimog
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* 1 Multi-role vehicle (MRV)
Notable people
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John Addison, (1920–1998), composer, was born in Cobham.
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Julia Armfield (born 1990), writer, grew up in Cobham
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Matthew Arnold
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, (1822–1888), poet, lived in Cobham from 1873 to 1888.
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Malcolm Arbuthnot, (1877–1967), pictorialist, photographer and artist, was born in Cobham.
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Sir Felix Aylmer, (1889–1979), actor, lived at Painshill House, Cobham in the 1970s.
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Antonio Banderas
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(born 1960), Spanish actor, lives in Cobham
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General Sir Thomas Brotherton, (1785–1868), died nearby and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.
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Harvey Christian Combe, (1752–1818), brewer, Lord Mayor of London, owner of Cobham Park
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Aaron Eckhart, (born 1968), American actor, lived in Cobham and attended the American Community School.
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Shane Filan
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, (born 1979), singer, former member of
Westlife
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, has homes in Cobham and Sligo, Ireland.
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Kit Hain, (born 1956), singer and songwriter, was born in Cobham
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Harold B. Hudson, (1898–1982),
World War I
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flying ace, was born in Cobham.
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Nick Jones, (born 1963), entrepreneur, owner of
Babington House and husband of
Kirsty Young, grew up in Cobham.
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Nicholas Lane, (1585–1644), cartographer, came from a Cobham family and his earliest surviving work, 1613, is of Painshill.
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John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
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, (1680–1770), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, lived at Cobham Park.
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Vernon Lushington, (1832–1912), lawyer and patron to the arts, lived at Pyports in Cobham.
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Sir (Albert) Noel Campbell Macklin (1886–1946), of Fairmile estate, a British car maker and boat designer.
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Kenneth McAlpine (1920–2023), racing driver, was born in Cobham.
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Nichola McAuliffe (born 1955), television and stage actress and writer, was born in Cobham.
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Admiral Sir Graham Moore, (1764–1843), naval officer, lived at Brook Farm in Cobham
and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard.
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General Lord Henry Percy VC KCB, (1817–1877), soldier and MP, was born at Burwood House (now
Notre Dame School).
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Sir Thomas Sopwith, (1888–1989), aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the
Sopwith Aviation, H G Hawker Engineering,
Hawker Aircraft and
Hawker Siddeley
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aircraft companies, lived at Compton House, Cobham in the 1920s.
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Fred Stedman, (1870–1918), Surrey county cricketer, was born in Cobham.
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Gerrard Winstanley, (1609–1676), reformer, lived in Cobham from 1643 and was churchwarden in 1667–1668.
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Louis Cole, British film-maker and
YouTube
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personality.
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Mudar Zahran, Jordanian politician and Secretary General of the
Jordanian Opposition Coalition.
*
Sue Biggs , director general of the
Royal Horticultural Society
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The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr ...
.
Demography and housing
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
In film, fiction and the media
The Cobham News & Mail covered local news in the latter part of the 20th century until it closed and was incorporated into the Surrey Advertiser.
Cobham is also covered by the
Elmbridge Guardian, the Surrey Herald and the
Surrey Comet newspapers.
Nearest places
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Stoke D'Abernon
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Oxshott
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Esher
Esher ( ) is a town in the borough of Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole, Surrey, River Mole.
Esher is an outlying suburb of London, close to the London–Surrey border; with Esher Commons at its ...
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Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, about south of Central London. The settlement grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, from which its name is thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon ...
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Hersham
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Weybridge
Weybridge () is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a cro ...
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Walton-on-Thames
Walton-on-Thames, known locally as Walton, is a market town on the bank (geography), south bank of the River Thames, Thames in northwest Surrey, England. It is in the Borough of Elmbridge, about southwest of central London. Walton forms part ...
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Effingham
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Byfleet
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East Horsley
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West Horsley
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Former civil parishes in Surrey
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