Local events

Dorking Local History Group display boards are available for local events on the following Holmwood related issues:

  • Holmwood, the park that never was - on Holmwood Park
  • Tunnel collapses and stations on bridges - on building the railway line through Holmwood
  • The Hoad family - Holmwood's carriers and coal merchants through 150 years
  • George Rennie (1791-1866) - bridge builder and engineer - on George Rennie of Holmwood Lodge
  • Rocque - on the right side of the road? - on the accuracey of Rocque's map of the 1740s in relation to Holmwood's mill
  • Socialists and suffragettes - pacifists in Holmwood and Newdigate in World War I
  • Anstie Grange, Holmwood - Spies, feuds and hospitals during the First World War
  • The Holmwood, Mr Vanderbilt and the Lusitania - on the Vanderbilt memorial at the roadside between South and Mid Holmwood
  • Holmwood people and the First World War

Kathy Atherton gives talks and guided walks to local groups on the history of the Holmwood and its villages. Recent topics have included:

  • the history of St Mary Magdalene, South Holmwood
  • the history of the Holmwood and its villages
  • Suffragettes and socialists - the Pethick Lawrences of the Dutch House and their circle in the villages around Dorking