To help you take your research further
There are a number of people in Holmwood carrying out research into the history of Holmwood Common, the villages and their inhabitants. Though we are unable to carry out specific research for enquirers we are happy to pass on guidance on sources and information. Contact Kathy on
kathy.history@gmail.com or use the contact form attached
The following web pages and organisations may also be able to help:
Dorking Museum’s First World War Centenary memorial project has collected biographies of all casualties appearing on memorials in North Holmwood and South Holmwood
The National Trust pages on suffrage and Holmwood Common
The National Trust pages on a German bomber that came down on Holmwood Common in 1944
The Friends of Holmwood Common
Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre
The Museum website features pages on the 1912 Dorking and Holmwood Campaign, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and the Citizens 800 project film, the Pethick-Lawrence blue plaque, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence in the First World War, the War and the fight for the Vote, and the Blackbrook Bomber exhibition.
For further information on the Heath family see www.jjhc.info