near Dorking Station
Reported by S Robertson that during redevelopment the foundations were exposed of the Southern Railway area office buildings, air-raid shelters and other features dating from the Second World War. (SIHG 50)
20th century
1901-2000
Chilworth Gunpowder Mills
Report by A G Crocker and Glenys Crocker that clearance of vegetation on the site, carried out during the winter, has revealed previously hidden bedstones, edge runner stones and water wheel pits.
9 Abbey Gardens, Chertsey
Trial excavations by I Stuart for HBMC in advance of scheduled monument consent on part of the site of the Chertsey Abbey complex. Four trenches were opened, which revealed that the Black Ditch in this area had been backfilled about 30 years ago with redeposited clay, river gravels, building rubble, modern brick and tyre inner tubes.
Frenches Road, Redhill
Remains of buffer depot 124, one of a series built between November 1941 and December 1942 and used for storage of supplies in the Second World War and subsequent ‘cold war’ located by P Sowan. (SIHG 74)
Station Road, Betchworth
Remains of buffer depot 339, one of a series built between November 1941 and December 1942 and used for storage of supplies in the Second World War and subsequent ‘cold war’, located by P Sowan. (SIHG 74)
St Francis R C School, Woking
Evaluation of the disused school site by Tony Champion of SCAU, for SCC’s Resources Dept, found only remains associated with a late 19th/20th century building.
Hankley Common
Report by C Shepheard of an ‘Atlantic Wall’ built for military training in World War II. The concrete wall measures 3m in height, by 3.5m width, with a total length of 100m, in the centre of which is a 6m wide gap, to be closed by steel gates. The wall shows the results of two explosions, which left gaps of about 3.5m in width. At one end of the wall were originally several types of tank trap. (285, SIHG 79)
Student Village, Falkner Road, Farnham
Evaluation of the site for the new student village for the West Surrey College of Art and Design was carried out by D Graham and volunteers from the Farnham & District Museum Society. One pit of unknown date was recorded as was chalk and clunch masonry possibly dumped from works at the castle. A silver denarius and a piece of Roman roof tile were recovered and presumed to derive from upslope (later survey work confirmed a concentration of such tile at SU 834 472). A metal detector survey of the site recovered a 17th century trader’s token (John Smallpeece of Guildford).
Barnett Wood Lane, near Ashtead
Evaluation by G Hayman of SCAU, on behalf of Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd, in advance of works associated with the M25 widening scheme. Trial trenching revealed a gully and two ditches, probably former field boundaries, all of which contained modern material.
St Luke`s Hospital, Guildford
A watching brief was kept by R Poulton of SCAU, for Crest Homes, on redevelopment of the hospital site. This revealed that the scale of the development during the later 19th and, more especially, the 20th centuries had destroyed any earlier deposits.
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