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unusual facts about East Grinstead, Groombridge and Tunbridge Wells Railway



Baron Buckhurst

It was first created in 1567 for Thomas Sackville, MP for East Grinstead and Ailesbury.

George Bennions

Bennions was transferred to Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, where he was one of the first pilots in the care of Sir Archibald McIndoe, the pioneer of plastic surgery for the treatment for severe burns.

Jacques Paloume

The tournament's location rotates each year between Rouen (France), Gross Flottbeker (Hamburg, Germany) and East Grinstead (Sussex, England).

Margery Corbett Ashby

She was born at Danehill, East Sussex, the daughter of Charles Corbett a barrister who was sometime Liberal MP for East Grinstead and Marie Corbett herself a Liberal feminist and local councillor in Uckfield.

Marie Corbett

She was also a founder member and secretary of the East Grinstead Women’s Soroptimist Society.

Mark Pearn

Pearn played club hockey for Gloucester City, Reading, and also moved to Spain after the Athens Games to compete for Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, before returning to England as player/coach for East Grinstead.

Office of Special Affairs

Bonnie Woods, a former member who began counselling people involved with Scientology and their families, became a target along with her husband in 1993 when the Church of Scientology started a leaflet operation denouncing her as a "hate campaigner" with demonstrators outside their home and around East Grinstead.

Pease Porridge Hot

Pease Pottage is a small village in West Sussex, England which, according to tradition, gets its name from serving pease pottage to convicts either on their way from London to the South Coast or from East Grinstead to Horsham

Reade Stafford

He was a Member of Parliament for East Grinstead in 1593 and Truro, Cornwall 1597-1598, alongside Maurice Berkeley.

Robert Boscawen

He was evacuated to Archibald McIndoe's pioneering “Guinea Pig Club” plastic surgery unit at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex spending much of the next three years in hospital.

Sheffield Park railway station

The station opened in 1882 at the request of the Earl of Sheffield, a local landowner and promoter of the The Lewes and East Grinstead Railway Act 1877 which authorised the construction of a line from East Grinstead to Lewes, now popularly known as the Bluebell Railway.

Spa Valley Railway

The railway was engineered by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's (LB&SCR) Chief Engineer Frederick Banister, as part of the East Grinstead, Groombridge and Tunbridge Wells Railway (EGGTWR), itself an extension to the Three Bridges to East Grinstead Railway which had been completed in 1855.

Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation

It is particularly well exposed throughout the region between East Grinstead, West Sussex, and Tunbridge Wells, Kent, at localities such as; Stone Farm south of East Grinstead; Chiddinglye Rocks near West Hoathly; Toad Rock, Bull’s Hollow and Happy Valley west of Tunbridge Wells; and Harrisons Rocks, Bowles Rocks and High Rocks near Crowborough.


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