Capel, Surrey
Capel | ||
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Shire county | ||
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Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Dorking | |
Postcode district | RH5 | |
Dialling code | 01306 | |
Police | Surrey | |
Fire | Surrey | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
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Capel (
History
Anstiebury Camp
Within the parish in Coldharbour there is one
Medieval period
Capel in the
The original settlement of Capel consisted of approximately thirty farms, most of which still exist today bearing the names of their tenants in the early 14th century. Timbers in some of the farmhouses have also been dated to 14th century.[5]
19th Century
By 1848 there were 989 inhabitants over 5,522 acres (2,235 ha), of which 105 acres (42 ha) were common or waste. Lewis summarised Capel in that year as:
The lands are principally arable, producing good crops of wheat and oats, and the soil is also well adapted to the growth of timber.
rectory], in the patronage of Charles Webb, with a net income of £84: the tithes have been commuted for £610.[7]
The 13th century church, pictured, was enlarged in 1836, paid by
Friends Meeting House
In the 17th and 18th centuries Capel was the centre of a thriving
Brickmaking in Capel district
The clay soil of the Upper Weald on which Capel lies has a rich history of brick-making. A small brickyard owned by the Lee - Steere family existed next to Ockley and Capel station until the early 1920s. The manager's house named Arundel Cottage still stands.[11] To the south and also adjacent to the railway is the derelict Auclaye Brickworks. The yard which ceased working sometime in the late 1980s was subject to a proposal in 2017 to reopen and extract minerals. This was rejected and the site is subject to a Geological Conservation Review[12][13]
The largest brickyard in the area was The Clock House Brick Company Ltd., opened to the south of Capel in 1933 to exploit a rich seam of clay. It was for seventy years a major source of employment for local inhabitants. In 1941 the majority of shares were acquired by
Amenities
The historic Crown Inn is the village's sole surviving
The area is in the Green Belt surrounding London and has two conservation areas, one in Coldharbour and one in Capel itself.
Both Capel and Beare Green have a village hall; each of them puts on a monthly cinema showing, and has many other users and groups[19]
Beare Green has a train station with direct services to London Victoria, Holmwood railway station, in the main, new part of the village West of the A24, and a primary school in old Beare Green to the East of the A24, but has no pubs.
Religion
The
There is a lively, fairly informal monthly church service in Beare Green Village Hall on the first Sunday of each month, at 11:15, known as Café Church, suitable for (and attended by) all ages. Average attendance is about 30, peak so far being 60.
Education
A village school was built in 1826 and enlarged in 1872. Capel today has Scott-Broadwood Church of England Infant School and a pre-school.[22] So does the old part of Beare Green, east of the A24
Localities
Beare Green
Beare Green (
Older maps label Beare Green as being where the Duke's Head pub and Weald School are, on the East side of the A24 dual carriageway. This is the original location of Beare Green.[25] This area now has 100 older houses and 120 mobile homes [in 2 parks on Horsham Road], that lie to the South and East. The larger part of Beare Green, that is signed as Beare Green from the A24 dual carriageway, sits to the West of the A24 and now has 400 homes and all the shops plus the railway station (mis-named Holmwood Station), the village hall and the new playing area.
In February 2020, Mole Valley District Council proposed a strategic development of 480 homes on Green Belt land to the South of the settlement. A development of 55 homes to the north of the village was also proposed. The proposals were in Mole Valley District Council's Draft Local Plan[26] which went out for public consultation in February 2020.
Coldharbour
Coldharbour is the locality within the civil parish 3 miles (4.8 km) to the northwest. It is situated on the southern and eastern slopes of
Broome Hall near Coldharbour is a Grade II listed stone mansion, dating from 1750. From 1946 to 1969, it was a novitiate house for the White Fathers. In the 1970s and 1980s it was the home of the actor Oliver Reed.[30]
Europa Oil & Gas Ltd submitted in 2008 a planning application to Surrey County Council to explore for oil and gas[n 1] [n 2][32] in Coldharbour but this was rejected by the Planning Inspectorate based upon a public inquiry in October 2012.[33]
Demography and housing
The large civil parish at the 2001 census had a population of 3,624, which increased by 208 over the following 10 years.[34][n 3]
Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | shared between households[1] |
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(Civil Parish) | 547 | 477 | 256 | 251 | 117 | 0 |
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
Output area | Population | Households | % Owned outright | % Owned with a loan | hectares[1] |
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(Civil Parish) | 3,832 | 1,648 | 35.4% | 36.1% | 2,614 |
The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
Transport
Aside from the
A bus service runs along this main route to Dorking and Horsham.[5]
Notes and references
- notes
- ^ Summarised on 13 July 2012 by opponents' counsel at the, on appeal by the developer, public inquiry in Dorking as "An exploratory oil well, entailing site clearance, a compound, fencing, a 35m-high drilling rig, car park, flare pit and more besides, not to mention hundreds if not thousands of HGV [movements][31]
- ^ The Parish Council were informed of the date of announcement of the Inquiry's result into proposed Oil and Gas works - Monday 15 October.
- ^ At the same census, the census ward Capel, Leigh and Newdigate had a population of 3,882.[35]
- references
- ^ a b c Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine 2011 United Kingdom census Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
- ^ Grid Reference Finder - measurement tools
- ^ a b Anstiebury Camp: a large hillfort south-east of Crockers Farm Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1007891)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ H.E. Malden, ed. (1911). "Parishes: Capel". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ a b /surrey/mole_valley/capel Exploring Surrey's Past: Capel
- ^ Broome Hall, Grade II listingHistoric England. "Details from listed building database (1028759)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ a b Samuel Lewis, ed. (1848). "Cannock - Carbrooke". A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ^ St John's Baptist Church: Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1378150)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ Dorking Quaker meeting website Archived 26 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Grade II listing of Friends Cottage and Friends Meeting House: Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1028737)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ISBN 0906520304.
- ^ "Auclaye (Palaeoentomology)". Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ Rasnitsyn, A.P.; Jarzembowski, E.A.; Ross, A.J. (1998). Auclaye Brickworks, Capel, Surrey (Booth Museum of Natural History, Catalogue of GB3D Type Fossils ed.). pp. 350–352.
- ^ a b "History". Clockhousehouse Brickworks, Capel. 28DaysLater.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Capel Multi Stock Brick". Brickhunter. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Job Losses as Brick Factory Announces Closure". The Surrey Mirror. 5 March 2009.
- ^ "Clock House Brickyard". The Derelict Miscellany : Reflections on forgotten and abandoned spaces. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ The Crown Inn, Grade II listing Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1378150)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ Beare Green Village Hall website
- ^ molevalley.gov.uk Capel Conservation Area - map Retrieved 12 July 2015
- ^ St John the Baptist, Capel
- ^ "direct.gov.uk search". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ G.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 12.
- ^ Surrey County Council website: population. Retrieved 2 January 2012[permanent dead link]
- ^ [1] Retrieved on 26 August 2017, see section 6.18.
- ^ Future Mole Valley 2018-2033 Consultation Draft Local Plan
- ^ Henfold House Stables website. Retrieved on 30 May 2011.
- ^ Coldharbour Conservation Area - map
- ^ Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England - Surrey, 1962
- ^ 1977: OLIVER REED at home in BROOME HALL. BBC. 17 January 1977.
- ^ Surrey Herald - Dorking article of 13 July 2012 by Guy Martin
- ^ Parish Council result expected notice
- ^ Leith Hill Action Group announce result of inquiry[permanent dead link]
- ^ [2]Surrey County Council census data Archived 16 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Census data 2001
- ^ Official Timetables from O.T.O.C. who trade as National Rail
External links
- Official Capel Village Website
- Surrey County Council. "Capel". Exploring Surrey's Past. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- Surrey County Council. "Coldharbour". Exploring Surrey's Past. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- Media related to Capel, Surrey at Wikimedia Commons