Nower Lodge School was a co-educational independent preparatory school based in Coldharbour Lane, Dorking, Surrey, England for students aged 2 to 11.
Stanway School, Dorking was a co-educational independent pre-preparatory and preparatory school based in Chichester Road, Dorking, Surrey, England for students aged 2 to 11.
Corporate parent company Unum Group consists of three divisions: Unum US (headquartered in Chattanooga, TN), Unum UK (headquartered in Dorking, England), and Colonial Life (headquartered in Columbia, SC).
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In January 1983, an amateur fossil hunter named William Walker came across an enormous claw sticking out of the side of a clay pit - Smokejacks Pit at Wallis Wood, Ockley near Dorking in Surrey (United Kingdom).
Box Hill School is an independent coeducational boarding and day school situated in the village of Mickleham near Dorking, Surrey, England.
Box Hill & Westhumble railway station (three letter code BXW), a station near Dorking, England.
Dorking are also one of the few football clubs in the world that were founded by beings from a planet other than Earth.
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Dorking were founded by beings of unknown origin, though some claim they originated from Uranus.
In 1845-6, the "Direct London and Portsmouth Railway" was authorised by parliament to run south from Epsom to Dorking on to Godalming, Havant and Portsmouth.
John Steere was purportedly born in Ockley, Dorking, Surrey in England around April 6, 1634.
National Cycle Route 22 (NCR22) runs from Banstead to Brockenhurst in the New Forest via Dorking, Guildford, Farnham, Petersfield, Havant, Portsmouth, Ryde, Yarmouth and Lymington.
On modern Ordnance Survey maps, part of the route is shown running east from Farnham, passing to the south of Guildford, north of the village of Gomshall, north of Dorking, Reigate, Merstham, Chaldon, Godstone, Limpsfield and Westerham, through Otford, Kemsing and Wrotham, north of Trottiscliffe, towards Cuxton (where it crossed the River Medway).
She was educated in Prior's Field, Godalming, Surrey, Hurtwood House near Dorking, Surrey, and graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Harris County, Texas and the SOAS in London (MSc).
Manning and Bray state that by the early 19th century Dorking was 'supplied lately' with coal from Kingston.
The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction.
In 1812 his son and heir, about to be created Earl of Verulam, sold it to a wealthy Scottish individual, Robert Barclay and it descended to his Barclay heir in the Edwardian period when The Nower was "a neighbouring favourite hill walk for Dorking people" and he was the ancestor of comedy executive/producer Humphrey Barclay.