Norbury Park
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Norbury Park is a swathe of land arranged around a small manor house near Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey, which appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was home to William Tryon until 1764 and Thomas Grissell in the 19th Century.
It was home to Leopold Salomons JP by 1911. He gave Box Hill to the nation in 1914.
Marie Stopes, the British scientist and writer, became an active proponent of sexual education and birth control in the early twentieth century. Her book 'Married Love' was the first sexual manual written in language simple enough to be accessible to a wide public. It was published in 1918. She wrote several other books on sex, marriage, and birth control. In 1921 she opened the first birth control clinic in London. She resided at Norbury Park from 1938 until her death in 1958.