More Holmwood histories

Publications of Dorking Local History Group containing Holmwood articles

 

 

Editions of Dorking History, the annual journal of Dorking Local History Group, are available at £2 each. They can also be consulted at Dorking Museum. These contain articles relating to Holmwood as follows: 

  • The Esperance Dancers in Holmwood: A tale of luck, collaboration and picture research - Kathy Atherton (2020)

  • Nathaniel Wix: An 18th Century Dorking Worthy - Frances Mountford (2019)

  • Holmwood Common: uses and abuses through a millennium - Kathy Atherton (2018)

  • St John the Evangelist Church, North Holmwood War Memorial, The Great War 1914-1919 - Jim Edwards (2015)

  • History of Highacre, Dorking (on the site of Rough Rew) - Jim Edwards (2010)

  • The Beyfus Family of Daisy Lodge - Kathy Atherton (2010)

  • Francis Seymour Larpent - Vivien Timcke-Burdett (2009)

  • The Three Olympias: Holmwood's Huguenot Connections (the Cazalet, Arnold, Larpent and Wickham families) Kathy Atherton (2009)

  • John Langdon Davies - from conscientious objector to Home Guard via the Spanish barricades and the Holmwood - Kathy Atherton (2008)

  • The strange case of the amoebic shape-shifting Common - Kathy Atherton (2008)

  • Tracing the ownership of Waterland Farm, Blackbrook - Mary Day (2008)

  • A Narrow Escape (on runaway vehicles in the Holmwood) (2008)

  • The Holmwood Manoeuvres of July 1876 - Maureen Cole (2007)

  • The Double Life of a Capel Yeoman (the Tilt family of Holmwood) - Pam Palmer (2007)

  • The Admiral and the Obnoxious Ornaments (Admiral Sir Leopold Heath and St Mary Magdalene) - Kathy Atherton (2007)

  • 'A Bit of Singing and Dancing': Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, the Esperance Girls' Club and the Sundial - Kathy Atherton (2006)

  • The Evacuation of the Holmwoods (the planned evacuation of the villages in the First World War) - Kathy Atherton (2005)

  • The Norfolk Arms, Holmwood - S.E. Worrow and Kathy Atherton (2004)

  • The North Holmwood Pottery - Brian Overell (2003)

  • The Cabin, North Holmwood - Alan A. Jackson (2003)

Dorking, a Surrey Market Town through twenty centuries by Vivien Ettlinger, Alan A. Jackson and Brian Overell

An overview of the history of the manor and town of Dorking to which the Holmwood belonged. Available at £5

ISBN 1-870912-03-9 Published 1999 124 pages with illustrations

Available to order from Dorking Museum online