Either drop into Dorking Museum to buy any of these books or contact Chairman with details for any purchases from this list. FOr mail order, postage and packaging will be added to the stated price.
Vaughan Williams in Dorking by Celia Newbury (ed.), 1970, reprinted 2000
42 pages, illustrated. £6.00
Personal reminiscences of the celebrated composer
The Museum Guide to Dorking: A Brief History of the Town and Surrounding Villages by Kathy Atherton.
This guide covers the familiar (Box Hill, Deepdene, the Dorking Cockerel ….), and the unexpected: radicals, rioters, suffragettes ……. 88 fully illustrated pages, £10.
Dorking: a Town Underground by
Sam Dawson.
About Dorking’s wartime civil defenses, crypts, icehouses, vaults, wine and beer cellars and the caves beneath our feet.
The South Street Caves, Dorking by Cliff Weight, 1988 pp. 28, illustrated £2.50.
The history of the famous network of caves that run underneath the centre of Dorking
The Deepdene, Dorking by Doris Mercer and Alan A Jackson, 1996, pp76, illus. £6.50
The history of the Deepdene mansion and estate from the 1400s to early 1990s
Dorking’s Railways by Alan A. Jackson, 1991 pp.64, illus. £3.50.
A history of the (often surprising) development of railways in Dorking
Dorking: A Surrey Market Town through Twenty Centuries by Vivien Ettlinger, Alan A. Jackson and Brian Overell, 1991, reprinted 1997 pp.124 illus. £5.00. A history of Dorking from early settlement to modern times
William Mullins and his House in West Street, Dorking by Pam Hunter, 2000 pp.12, illus. £2.50. The story of William Mullins, whose house is the last remaining house of a Pilgrim Father in England
The Deepdene, Dorking by Doris Mercer and Alan A Jackson, 1996, pp76, illus. £6.50
The history of the Deepdene mansion and estate from the 1400s to early 1990s
Pippbrook House by Jim Docking, 2016 pp.64, illus. £5
The story of Pippbrook Estate and House in Dorking, from the 14th century to the end of 2015
Early Victorian Dorking by Robert Humphreys, 2002 pp.80, illus. £5.00
Life in a mid-nineteenth century market town
A Dorking Foundry Scrapbook by Julian Womersley.
Details TBC
The Holloway, Dorking by Vivien Ettlinger, 1998 pp.64, illus. £5.40
The development of a medieval farm into a modern residential estate
A Living Stream by Patricia Bennett, 2018, pp 52, illus. £5.00
The story of Pixham and its people.
A Scent of Violets: Glimpses of Victorian Dorking by Patricia Bennett, 1985, pp.12, illus. £1.40.
An account of correspondence in the 1880s between a family nurse in Pixham and the mother in Kensington
A History of Brockham Park by Albert Bird.
Details TBC
Hidden Depths: An Archaeological Guide to Surrey’s Past by Roger Hunt
Details TBC
Chart Park, Dorking illus. £7.50
A history of the Chart Park mansion and the development of the estate
Some other books/pamphlets from the list below, and back copies of ‘Dorking History’ may be available – please email the chairman (see Contacts).
St Martin’s Churchyard Survey, pp.41 with plan (A survey by the Local History Group of the graves in Dorking Parish Churchyard)
Members’ and other group publications:
The Lost Villages: a history of the Holmwoods by Kathy Atherton
A history of Holmwood Common and the villages and farms surrounding it from the Stone Age to the present day.
2008 pp112 illus £8.00 Available via Holmwood Histories or by mailing Kathy Atherton directly.
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