common's main settlement is Friday Street. The civil parish of Wotton is wholly within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and includes the...
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Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England. Originally the centre of the...
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Wotton may refer to: Wotton, Barbados Wotton, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Wotton, Quebec, Canada Wotton, Surrey, England Wotton House, Surrey...
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Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet (1 March 1682 – July 1763) of Wotton, Surrey, was a British official and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708...
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John Evelyn (category Writers from Surrey)
was largely founded on gunpowder production, John Evelyn was born in Wotton, Surrey, and grew up living with his grandparents in Lewes, Sussex. While living...
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Surrey (/ˈsʌri/) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to...
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Evelyn baronets (section Evelyn of Wotton, Surrey)
Sheriff of Surrey 1666 Extinct on his death Created in the Baronetage of England 17 February 1683 for Sir Edward Evelyn, 1st Baronet MP for Surrey 1685–1687...
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Bridge 1 1 Gutte Pond Bridge, Wotton Estate, Wotton, Surrey Tomb 1 1 Evelyn Mausoleum, Brickyard Lane, Wotton, Surrey Rhymney 1 1-2 Charlestown Harbour...
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his grandfather, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet of Wotton, on 11 June 1767, inheriting Wotton House, Surrey. He was a member of the Jockey Club, and married...
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The Hundred of Wotton, Wotton Hundred or Dorking Hundred was a hundred in Surrey, England. The hundred comprised a south-central portion of the county...
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Friday Street (redirect from Friday Street, Surrey)
lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England. It is in a wooded headwater ravine, just to the south of Wotton and the A25, a single rather than dual...
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widow took the children to live in her family home, Leith Hill Place, Wotton, Surrey. The children were under the care of a nurse, Sara Wager, who instilled...
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Wotton and Abinger Commons is a 324-hectare (800-acre) nature reserve south-west of Dorking in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. Part...
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Leith Hill (redirect from Leith Hill, Surrey)
concrete, and the entrance bricked up. In 1864, William John Evelyn of nearby Wotton House decided to reopen it, but the concrete made this difficult, and so...
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Geoffrey Miller; 7 February 1891 in London, England – 31 May 1969 in Wotton, Surrey) was an English journalist and food writer. He authored many cookbooks...
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The Surrey Hills National Landscape is a 422 km2 (163 sq mi) National Landscape in Surrey, England. It comprises around one quarter of the land area of...
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H.E. Malden, ed. (1911). "The hundred of Wotton: Introduction and map". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research...
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and became a curate at Oakwood Chapel (also Okewood) in the parish of Wotton, Surrey. Malthus came to prominence for his 1798 publication, An Essay on the...
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Genesis (band) (category Musical groups from Surrey)
1969, Genesis retreated to a cottage owned by Macphail's parents, in Wotton, Surrey, to write, rehearse and develop their stage performance. They took their...
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neighbourhoods in Surrey, a ceremonial and administrative county of England. For lists relating to parts of London formerly in Surrey, see the London Boroughs...
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country residence, Wotton House in Wotton, Surrey. In 1813, John Evelyn's diaries were discovered in an 'ebony cabinet' at Wotton House, quite possibly...
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Milton Court (category Country houses in Surrey)
Evelyn was lord of the adjoining manor of Wotton, Surrey where the family had established themselves at Wotton House. In the nineteenth century, the court...
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St James's Church, Abinger All Saints Church, Witley, Surrey Tillingbourne Cottage, Wotton, Surrey Cosford Mill, Thursley Leith Hill Tower St Catherine's...
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and Chertsey, Woking and Wotton. The constituency was therefore the more extensive and more rural of the two divisions of Surrey established in 1832. Its...
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George Evelyn (1617–1699) (category People from Surrey (before 1889))
times between 1640 and 1689. Evelyn was the son of Richard Evelyn of Wotton, Surrey. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 24 October 1634, aged...
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archetipo de' Giardini, Angelo Tamo in Verona English Heritage, Wotton House – Wotton – Surrey – England, BritishListedBuildings.co.uk, retrieved 1 September...
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visited his second cousin once removed, the diarist John Evelyn, at Wotton, Surrey; the latter referred to him as "a young and very hopeful gentleman"...
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Wellington; and thirdly in 1692 Mary, the daughter of George Evelyn of Wotton, Surrey. Mary was the niece of John Evelyn, the diarist. Around 1690 he purchased...
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Dorking (redirect from Dorking, Surrey)
Dorking (/ˈdɔːrkɪŋ/) is a market town in Surrey in South East England about 21 mi (34 km) south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council...
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Horley (redirect from Horley, Surrey)
Horley is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England, south of the towns of Reigate and Redhill. The county border with West Sussex...
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