Two teams were promoted into the Division One South before the season: Crowborough Town, from the Sussex County League, and Merstham, from the Combined Counties League.
He lived at Hampstead and later at Upper Gatton Park, Merstham, Surrey, and also had a residence at 21 Half Moon Street.
Merstham |
Eventually the LB&SCR gained Parliamentary approval to build its own independent line between Coulsdon North and Earlswood which bypassed the SER stations of Coulsdon South, Merstham and Redhill.
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).