East Horsley
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East Horsley is a village in Surrey, on the A246 between Leatherhead and Guildford. Horsley railway station lies on the Cobham branch railway line between Guildford and London Waterloo.
Horsley has one private primary school, Glenesk. Children also attend The Raleigh (state) named after Sir Walter Raleigh, and Cranmore (private boys' Catholic) which are both located in West Horsley, and the Howard of Effingham state secondary school in Effingham.
The Nomad Theatre is a well-equipped amateur theatre behind the smaller of East Horsley's two rows of shops, Bishopsmead Parade. The new theatre, largely financed by lottery grants from Arts Council England, opened in October 1998 with a production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood. A larger row of shops is situated near the railway station.
Horsley Towers, a large gothic mansion, was designed by Sir Charles Barry (designer of the Houses of Parliament). It was the home of Ada, Lady Lovelace (the poet Lord Byron's daughter) and later Sir Thomas Sopwith, the aviation pioneer. It was used in the television drama The Stone Tape as 'Taskerlands'.
East Horsley is in the Borough of Guildford, but the postal district KT24 (part of the Kingston upon Thames postal area) and has the telephone area code 01483 (Guildford). Its post town is Leatherhead, and it is in the Mole Valley Parliamentary constituency.
Neighbouring villages are West Horsley, Ockham and Effingham.
[edit] External links
- The Offical Horsley Towers Website Which lists the long line of distinguished thinkers who lived at Horsley Towers.
