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Dist:0.3km<br/>Magpie Wood is on the right; the building in the distance is Wolvers
©Martyn Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>On the way from the A217 to Magpie Wood and Wolvers.
©Martyn Davies
Dist:0.5km<br/>Small scale rural office development off Ironsbottom.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Duxhurst was the site of The Duxhurst Hospital for Lady Inebriates, founded by Lady Henry Somerset of Reigate Priory in 1894. Lady Henry Somerset was a stalwart of the temperance movement and built a model village here for the care and recuperation of women affected by alcoholism, many from the East End of London. For more information see the excellent article on her and her work at http://www.redhill-reigate-history.co.uk/lady somerset.htm. The current Duxhurst Place is on the site of a building called The Nest, used to house children of women being cared for in the village. Whether Duxhurst Place is the original building or a replacement building on the site is not clear.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Slab Castle is merely a house. This view looks away from the house towards the main road, the A217. A public footpath follows the drive.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking towards White Cottage (on the left) and Lower Duxhurst Farm (beyond). Behind the hedge on the right is Duxhurst Lane.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.6km<br/>Some of a range of buildings at this settlement reached via private roads.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.6km<br/>A small business park containing such diverse operations as an auction house, the south east co-ordinator of the British Pentathlon Association, a theatrical armoury supplier, a car trim specialist, an artist, a bespoke rustic seat maker, a window company and a storage company.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.7km<br/>New house replacing a previous house on the site.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.7km<br/>Close up of milestone in [[1792874]]. One of a series of milestones dating from 1817 along what is now the A217, but prior to the building of the A23 through Redhill in 1818, was once the main London to Brighton road. Although the writing is not entirely clear, comparison with other examples suggest that it reads "LONDON 24 REIGATE 3 3/8" on this face and "BRIGHTON 27 5/8 CRAWLEY 5 5/8" on the reverse. This example is locally listed.
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.7km<br/>Reigate Road, A217, runs behind the substantial hedge at the right.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.7km<br/>This picture was taken on Reigate Road which just clips the square to its west side. The square is mostly fields intersected by the River Mole and a line of pylons.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking south from near Lower Duxhurst Farm. For close up of milestone on right, see [[1792889]].
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.7km<br/>Stables on Reigate Road
©Ian Capper
Dist:0.8km<br/>Just before dawn - during a partial solar eclipse
©James Insell

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