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 At Abinger Hammer Victorian tile hung houses
add to the small group of earlier buildings are the Clock House by Mine
and Hall (1891) and watercress beds, once hammer ponds of a medieval
forge. The C17 Crossways Farm with double porch and thick brick
cornices was the setting of Meredith's Diana of the Crossways and an
episode of the more recent TV series Poirot. Abinger was a haunt of
Edwardian and inter-war intellectuals such as the Webbs and E.M.
Forster.
Clock over the road has a legend of 'By me you know how fast to go'
and the blacksmith figure strikes the time on the hour (or certainly
has done). The clock was given in memory of the first Lord
Farrer of Abinger Hall, who died in 1899. It is a potent
reminder of just how important was the iron industry in the area,
the Tillinghbourne stream being dammed in several places to create
the heads of water required by the iron masters in their ancient
craft. Now converted to the use of watercress beds, the clear
water of the chalk stream being ideal for this salad crop which is
one of a range of products, trout from the Tillingbourne being
another, will sold in the village.
With the wines from Denbies and Thorncroft nearby the produce of
Surrey is back on the menu. The Farrer seat at Abinger Hall
has been demolished, but it was where Charles Darwin made his
observations about the earthworm. Up on the North Downs behind
at Abinger Roughs is a memorial stone marking the spot where in 1873
Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Winchester was fatally injured when his
horse tripped and threw him.
The way up to it is long and steep form the A25 cut deep into the
soft sandstone and enclosed with boughs. Summer makes the way
green and mysterious, golding in autumn to a thrill of wind and just
as beautiful when bare twigs pattern the frosty blue overhead.
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Location
for a home:
Recommended but nicer villages very near by
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Watch
out warnings:
Village on the
very busy
A25
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your product or service benefit from being seen
here?
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