Bull 485
Apr 2021
Tyting Farm, Chilworth
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St Martha's Hill, Chilworth
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Surrey Historic Landscapes Project; Norbury Park, Fetcham, Mickleham
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Book now for SHERF 2021
This year's annual Surrey Historic Environment Research Framework will be a one-day virtual conference held online, via Zoom video conferencing, and themed around the subject of church archaeology. See https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sherf-2021-archaeology-of-the-church-perspectives-from-recent-work-in-the-south-east for full programme and booking info.
Society AGM on ZOOM
Agenda for the Annual General Meeting
This meeting will be held on Zoom only - codes for this will be emailed and published a few days before the meeting.
Apologies for absence.
To receive and, if approved, sign as correct the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on November 21,2020.
Items Acquired by the Library in September 2021
New Items Acquired by the Library
Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder and Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne
Submitted by gbrooks on
'Damnable inventions' were the words used by William Cobbett, when he visited the Tillingbourne valley in Surrey in 1822, to describe: the industries of Chilworth and Albury - the manufacture of gunpowder and of paper for printing banknotes.
2000
Alexander Raby, Ironmaster
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A mill is known to have existed on the site Downside Mills, Cobham, River Mole, from as early as 1331 and in the eighteenth century it operated both as a corn and a paper mill prior to becoming an iron Mill.
1998
Abinger and the Royal Greenwich Observatory
Submitted by gbrooks on
Between Leith Hill and Abinger Bottom is a house called "The Old Observatory" which together with the land in which it stands formed an important outpost of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1924 until 1957.
1996
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