#1 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
City Centre Horley
Gatwick Airport (LGW)
~0.26 miles from Horley city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
City Centre Gatwick
Gatwick
~1.03 miles from Horley city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
City Centre Crawley
Gatwick Airport
~3.91 miles from Horley city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Crawley Town Hall
Gatwick Airport
~4.13 miles from Horley city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
St. John the Baptist Church
Gatwick Airport (LGW)
~4.29 miles from Horley city center
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St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is the parish church of Crawley, and is the oldest building in the town centre, dating from the 13th century—although many alterations have been made since, and only one wall remains of the ancient building.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
St John the Baptist Church
Gatwick Airport
~4.31 miles from Horley city center
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St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is the parish church of Crawley, and is the oldest building in the town centre, dating from the 13th century—although many alterations have been made since, and only one wall remains of the ancient building.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Hawth Theatre
Gatwick Airport
~4.39 miles from Horley city center
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The Hawth Theatre is an arts and entertainment complex located in 38 acres (150,000 m2) of woodland half a mile from the town centre of the English town of Crawley. It is wholly owned and funded by Crawley Borough Council
The new town of Crawley has been without a theatre since its inception in 1947, leading, in part, a local newspaper editor to describe the town as souless. In 1986, plans were approved by the borough council for a new theatre in an area of Woodland known locally as The Hawth. Development began quickly, and the theatre opened for the first time in April 1988. In 1992, the theatre hosted a performance of London City Ballet's Romeo & Juliet, which was attended by the then Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales.
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Central Train Station
Gatwick Airport
~4.43 miles from Horley city center
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Crawley railway station is one of three railway stations serving the Crawley township. It is however the most centrally located.
Crawley's original station was first opened in February 1848. This current one was opened in 1968. The platform of the old station is still there, 100 yards west of the sation, alongside the original signalbox.
It is run by Southern Trains. The main Crawley Bus Terminal is just across the road, north of the station.
It is located on the line from Three Bridges to Portsmouth Harbour.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Worth St. Nicholas' Church (Worth Church)
Copthorne
~4.48 miles from Horley city center
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St Nicholas Church, more commonly known as Worth Church, is an Anglican church in Worth, a village in Crawley, England. At one point, it had the largest geographical parish in England.
The church is of Saxon origin, and parts of it probably date to between 950 and 1050 AD. It was built in what, at the time, was a forest. The reason for building a church here is unknown, but the area may have had good hunting grounds, and royal or noble visitors to the grounds would need a place to pray in comfort. As it was a large church isolated in the forest, it is unlikely it was just for local needs. After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the church was given by William the Conqueror to his son-in-law, William de Warrenne, whose coat of arms is still visible in the stained glass windows of the church. In the 14th century, the church was passed from the de Warrenne family to the Fitzalan family, who lost it in 1415 to Nevills, Earl of Abergavenny.
In 1986, workmen were treating roof timbers of the church for protection against vermin when a fire broke out. The fire brigade quickly put out the blaze, saving the main building, but the roof timbers were severely damaged. This rendered the building unstable, however, which resulted in much scaffolding being put up, which in turn required pews and flooring to be removed. The roof was redesigned, and the walls were strengthened. New floors and pews were fitted. The new pews, unlike the pre-restoration ones, are easier to move, giving the church more flexibility. The old pews were considered impossible to re-install in the church. The restoration cost around £510,000, and by 1988 it was complete.
Worth Church is still a fully operational church, just as it was in the 11th century, with at least two services each Sunday, plus a midweek Eucharist on Wednesdays. It still performs ceremonies such as weddings, christenings, and funerals. Although only about 150 people are officially on the Church's electoral role, it attracts up to 400 people for the major services every Christmas and Easter respectively.
The Church has two full time Clergy - Anthony and Craig - plus four Hon. Assistant Priests.
The churchyard also contains the grave of Robert Whitehead, inventor of the modern torpedo. In a plot encompassed with blue railings, his epitaph reads "His fame was known by all nations hereabouts".
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Broadfield Stadium
Gatwick Airport (LGW)
~5.33 miles from Horley city center
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Broadfield Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Crawley, England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Crawley Town F.C.. The stadium has a capacity of 4,996 people, and is owned by Crawley Borough Council.
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Standen
East Grinstead
~7.59 miles from Horley city center
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Standen is an Arts and Crafts house located near East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. The house and its surrounding gardens belong to the National Trust and are open to the public.
Between 1892 and 1894 architect Philip Webb, who was a friend of William Morris, designed the house for a prosperous London solicitor, James Beale, his wife Margaret, and their family. It is decorated with Morris carpets, fabrics and wallpapers, and the garden complements the beauty of the house. The house still has its original electric light fittings. The house was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1972.
The Beales started planting a 12-acre (49,000 m2) garden almost immediately after they had purchased the land, using the site of an 18th-century garden and orchard. In early 1891 trees were planted, a yew hedge established and the kitchen garden begun.
The Beales consulted a London landscape gardener who drew up a layout that assumed that the new house would be located on the line of the existing terrace. However, Webb suggested that it rather be placed further into the hillside. The proposed planting schemes were characterised by strict geometrical layouts of colourful flowerbeds and shrubs. Webb preferred something else, however: a mixture of natural styles combining old-fashioned formality and compartmentalised gardens. Webb also designed a number of elements in the garden.
The resulting Arts and Crafts garden used local materials for its formal elements and loose plantings amongst yew hedges, trellis and pergolas, emphasising natural colour schemes and subtle combinations of colour and foliage.
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Wakehurst Place
Gatwick Airport (LGW)
~8.02 miles from Horley city center
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Wakehurst Place Garden is a garden located at Wakehurst Place in Ardingly, West Sussex in southern England (grid reference TQ340315). It includes walled and water gardens, woodland and wetland conservation areas. It belongs to the National Trust and is managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For the National Trust's 2008–2009 fiscal year Wakehurst Place Garden was the Trust's most visited property for which admission was charged, with 427,002 visitors.
The garden was largely created by Gerald Loder (later Lord Wakehurst) who purchased the estate in 1903 and spent 33 years developing the gardens, which today cover some 2 square kilometres (500 acres). He was succeeded by Sir Henry Price, and the Royal Botanic Gardens took over in 1965. Wakehurst is home to the National Collections of betulas, hypericums, nothofagus and skimmias.
The Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, which houses an international seed bank known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project (not National Trust), was opened in 2000. The aim of the Millennium Seed Bank is to conserve seeds from 10% of the world's flora by 2009, in the hope that this will save species from extinction in the wild.
Wakehurst Place is home to the largest growing Christmas tree in England. The tree stands at 35 m tall and is lit with around 1,800 lights from Advent until Twelfth Night. The lightbulbs on the tree were changed in 2006/2007 to energy-saving lightbulbs so the tree is not as bright as before but saves lots of energy.
Much of Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film As You Like It, adapted from Shakespeare's play, was filmed on location at Wakehurst Place.
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
West Hoathly St. Margaret's Church
Gatwick Airport (LGW)
~8.11 miles from Horley city center
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West Hoathly is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south west of East Grinstead. The parish has a land area of 2,139 hectares (5,290 acres). In the 2001 census 2,121 people, of whom 1150 were economically active, lived in 813 households.
The Anglican parish church of Norman origin is dedicated to Margaret of Antioch. West Hoathly Church of England School is the main primary school in the village.
The Priest House is an early 15th century timber-framed hall-house.
A now defunct station on the Bluebell Railway line; is named West Hoathly, although it is actually located in the neighbouring village of Sharpthorne.
Landmarks
Near the hamlet of Sharpthorne there is a Site of Special Scientific Interest known as West Hoathly. It is a working clay pit of geological interest with 9 metres (30 ft) of visible sedimentary layers.
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Leith Hill Tower
Surrey
~9.10 miles from Horley city center
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On the summit of Leith Hill is an 18th century Gothic tower, with panoramic views northwards to London and the English Channel to the south. Richard Hull of nearby Leith Hill Place (once home to the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams) built "Prospect House" in the years 1765 to 1766, later to become known as Leith Hill Tower, with the intention of raising the hill above 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level. The tower is 19.5 metres (64 ft) high and consisted of two rooms "neatly furnished", with a Latin inscription above the door announcing that it had been built for not only his own pleasure, but also for the enjoyment of others. Hull provided visitors with prospect glasses, similar to a small telescope, through which to survey the extensive views towards London and the English Channel, each some 25 miles (40 km) away, and thirteen counties on a very clear day.
When he died in 1772, at his request he was buried under the tower, upside-down as he believed that at Judgement Day the world would be turned on its head. Following his death, the building was stripped of its contents, doors and windows, and fell into ruin. As a result the tower was filled with rubble and concrete, and the entrance bricked up.
In 1864, Mr Evelyn of nearby Wotton House decided to reopen it, but the concrete made this difficult, and so the additional turreted side-tower was added to allow access to the top of the tower.
The nearest railway station is Holmwood Station, 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east. This station is served by Southern trains on the Sutton & Mole Valley Line route.
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Horsham St. Marks Church
Gatwick Airport (LGW)
~9.24 miles from Horley city center
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St Marks Church is an Anglican church situated on North Heath Lane in the North Horsham parish in the district of Horsham, West Sussex in Great Britain. There is a church hall where baptisms, weddings, and funerals are held.
The church was founded in 1841, with girls' and boys' schools adjacent to the building. The building was almost entirely rebuilt in 1871, and the chancel was extended in 1888.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Ashdown Forest Llama Park
Wych Cross
~11.14 miles from Horley city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Enchanted Place Winne the Pooh
Forest Row
~13.28 miles from Horley city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Chessington World of Adventures
Chessington
~13.87 miles from Horley city center
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Chessington World of Adventures is a theme park and zoo in south-west London, England. It lies 12 miles from Central London, close to the A3 and M25 (junction 9 or 10). Historically opening as a zoo, a theme park was developed alongside it, opening in 1987.
The park has a selection of attractions, ranging from the Dragon's Fury roller coaster, to family-oriented rides such as the Bubbleworks. It also has animals, many of which can be seen from the Safari Skyway, an elevated monorail around the zoo. Since 1998 Chessington has been in the same ownership as nearby Thorpe Park, and since 2007, Legoland Windsor.[1] Recent changes in direction have stunted the growth of the park; however, infrastructure is currently being fully refurbished to prepare for relaunch in 2010
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Sheffield Park Garden
~14.04 miles from Horley city center
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Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath, in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed in the early years of the 20th century by its owner, Arthur G. Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust. The adjacent Sheffield Park House, a gothic country house, is in private ownership.
Sheffield Park is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In August 1538, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, entertained Henry VIII here. By 1700, the Deer Park had been partially formalised by Lord De La Warr who planted avenues of trees radiating from the house and cleared areas to establish lawns. In the late 1700s, James Wyatt remodelled the house in the fashionable Gothic style and Capability Brown was commissioned to landscape the garden. The original four lakes form the centrepiece. Humphry Repton followed Brown in 1789–1790. In 1796, the estate was sold to John Holroyd, created Baron Sheffield in 1781. It is particularly noted for its plantings of trees selected for autumn colour, including many Black Tupelos.
By 1885, an arboretum was being established, consisting of both exotic and native trees. After Soames purchased the estate in 1910, he continued large-scale planting. During World War II the house and garden became the headquarters for a Canadian armoured division, and Nissen huts were sited in the garden and woods. The estate was split up and sold in lots in 1953. The National Trust purchased approximately 40 ha in 1954, now up to 80 ha with subsequent additions. It is home to the National Collection of Ghent azaleas.
In 1876 the third Earl of Sheffield laid out a cricket pitch. It was used on 12 May 1884 for the first cricket match between England and Australia[1]. The Australian team won by an innings and 6 runs.
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Hatchlands Park
Surrey
~14.81 miles from Horley city center
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Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between West Clandon and West Horsley.
The park initially belonged to the Chertsey Abbey with the park being mentioned in the Domesday Book. In 1544, after the dissolution of the monasteries, it was granted by Henry VIII to Sir Anthony Browne and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald (commonly known as 'The Fair Geraldine').
The first visual record of the park is shown on a John Seller map of 1693.
The park was purchased in 1750 by Admiral Boscawen who landscaped the grounds; for the house he employed the architect Stiff Leadbetter. Admiral Boscawen's widow, Fanny sold the estate in 1770 to the Sumner family of the East India Company; both father and son made further alterations to the property. The father, William Brightwell Sumner commissioned Benjamin Armitage to make alterations, and his son, George Holme Sumner asked Humphry Repton (1752 - 1818) to redesign the park and garden. Towards the end of the century, Joseph Bonomi, ARA, was commissioned to alter several rooms and to impose a frontispiece on the west front.
In 1888, the Sumner family sold the estate to Stuart, later Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel. He had extensive changes made to the fabric of the house. Rendel was mainly his own architect but he also employed his nephew by marriage, Halsey Ricardo, and commissioned Reginald Blomfield to build the Music Room. Rendel coloured and gilded Adam's ceilings, embellished the staircase with rococo decorations and switched the main entrance of the house to the east. Rendel also commissioned Gertrude Jekyll to design the gardens which contain a parterre.
Hatchlands Park was passed to the National Trust by a grandson of Lord Rendel and is open to the public, but closed in the winter months. There is a café and shop. There is a cobbled courtyard and in the grounds there is a disused ice house.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Painshill Park
London
~15.96 miles from Horley city center
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Painshill Park—also referred to as "Pains Hill" in some nineteenth century texts[1]—near Cobham, Surrey, England, was developed between 1738 and 1773 by the Hon. Charles Hamilton, 9th son and 14th child of the 6th Earl of Abercorn. It is one of the finest examples of an 18th Century English Landscape Park.
Hamilton was born in 1704 in Dublin, was educated at Westminster School and Oxford, and went on two Grand Tours, one in 1725 and a further one in 1732.
In 1738 Hamilton began to acquire land at Painshill and, over the years, built up a holding of more than 200 acres (0.81 km2).
His park was among the earliest to reflect the changing fashion in garden design prompted by the Landscape Movement, which started in England in about 1730. It prompted a move away from geometric formality in garden design to a new naturalistic formula.
Hamilton eventually ran out of money and sold the estate in 1773.
Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) bought Painshill in 1807 from William Moffat. Luttrell lived at Painshill Park after having fled from the magnificent ancestral Luttrellstown Castle near Clonsilla outside Dublin, where his notorious role in crushing the Irish Rebellion in 1798 made it unsafe to stay. (His ancestor Colonel Henry Luttrell had been assassinated in Dublin in 1717 for betraying the Irish to King William III of England.) After his death in 1821, his wife Jane lived there until her death in 1831 when it was sold it to Sir William Cooper, High Sheriff of Surrey.
Sir William Cooper, High Sheriff of Surrey and his widow lived there until 1863, and installed both Joseph Bramah's suspension bridge and water wheel, plus John Claudius Loudon's arboretum. In 1873, noted English poet, literary and social critic, Matthew Arnold, rented Pains Hill Cottage from Mr. Charles J. Leaf and lived there until his death in 1888.
Until the Second World War the Park was held by a succession of private owners; however, in 1948 the estate was split up and sold in separate lots for commercial uses. The Park, as such, soon disappeared and its features fell into decay.
By 1980 the local authority, Elmbridge Borough Council, had bought 158 acres (0.64 km2) of Hamilton's original estate and the work of restoring the Park and its many features could start. In the following year the Painshill Park Trust was founded as a registered charity with the remit "to restore Painshill Park as nearly as possible to Charles Hamilton's Original Concept of a Landscaped Garden for the benefit of the public."
The restoration of this Grade I landscape is continuing, further progress being dependent on the availability of funding. However, the park continues to be a favourite location for film and television production, most recently as the grounds of "Bridgeford University" in Trinity (TV series) and the exteriors in the latest movie adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (2009 film).
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Shipley Windmill
West Sussex
~15.98 miles from Horley city center
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Shipley windmill is the youngest and the largest windmill in Sussex.
She - for windmills are always female - has been known at different times as Shipley Mill, King's Mill, Vincent's Mill and Belloc's Mill. She was built in 1879 for Mr. Fred Marten by Mr. Grist, millwright of Horsham, a firm that had its premises on the corner of London Road and Springfield Road.
It is interesting to note that the estimated cost of building the Mill was £800, although she actually cost £2,500.
Marten and his wife ran the Mill and the village stores and post office at Kings Land house until he died in 1884. After his death his widow Sarah put the house, shop and the Mill up for auction, but it was not sold, and she continued to run it, with Robert Wood as miller, until it was finally sold in 1895 to Richard Vincent.
Vincent took on Ernest Powell to work for him as miller. In 1906 Kings Land, the mill and five acres of surrounding land were bought by writer Hilaire Belloc, who then leased the mill to Powell.
Powell continued to operate the Mill until the end of her active life in 1926. During the time she was in active work there were seven or eight other windmills within easy reach. These included Coolham, Cripplegate, Littleworth and West Chiltington.
The number of mills was no doubt due to the dependence on them by local farmers, and the limited range of the horse-drawn wagons used to deliver the corn and to collect the meal after grinding.
It is sometimes asked why windmills with their free power should have declined so rapidly in this country. There are probably several reasons. The introduction of motor vehicles allowed farmers to travel further afield, giving rise to bigger power-driven mills. The spread of small internal combustion engines later allowed them to do their own grinding reliably and economically. The increase in wages, too, made it difficult for millers to make their businesses pay without auxiliary power for the days when the wind did not blow.
This last problem did not, however, apply to Shipley Mill. In the shed alongside the Mill there stood a steam engine which, when in action, drove a belt connected to the Mill, so she could work on the days when there was no wind. Indeed, through the years from its construction until the end of the 1914-1918 war, Shipley Mill was always busy, and Mr. Powell was an active and experienced miller.
It was not until the war was over that custom began to slacken off. The renewed import of grain from overseas, leading to the expansion of the big roller mills, better provision of long-distance transport and the spread of electrically driven machinery, caused the windmills of the country to become less popular. Shipley Mill was no exception, in spite of Ernest Powell's efforts. By 1922 she had ceased regular working, and, although she operated spasmodically until 1926, her active life was over.
Between the two wars Mr. Belloc was at pains to preserve the fabric of the Mill, but when the Second World War came and for some years after it, no materials were available to keep her in repair. At the time of his death in 1953 much needed to be done to prevent the Mill from falling into ruin like many others throughout the country.
Following local initiatives, an appeal was launched to restore Shipley Mill as a memorial to Belloc. His many friends and admirers responded generously, and a local committee was formed, including Ernest Powell's son, Peter, who from his boyhood had loved the Mill and helped to work her. The committee also gained the support of the West Sussex County Council, who agreed to contribute towards the repairs and maintenance of the Mill, with the help of the admission charges paid by visitors. The repairs were carried out by the well-known firm of Sussex millwrights, Ernest Hole & Sons of Burgess Hill. On completion of the work, a memorial plaque designed by Edmond Warre, an old friend of Belloc's, was fitted above the entrance door to the Mill, and a grand opening was held in May 1958.
The local committee, the Friends of Shipley Windmill, continued to open the Mill regularly to visitors each summer, and to operate her whenever possible until 1986, when it became clear that further major repairs would be necessary if the Mill was to continue to turn.
The County Council, realising that it would find it difficult to continue to cover these costs, then agreed to set up a charitable trust to manage the Mill, in conjunction with the owner and other interested parties.
Accordingly, the Shipley Windmill Charitable Trust was formed in 1987, and still manages the Mill. The trustees today include representatives of the County and the Horsham District Councils, the Friends of Shipley Windmill, the Mills Section of the Society for the
Protection of Ancient Buildings and the Sussex Literary Guild, to represent the literary interest, together with the present owner of the mill, Charles Eustace, great grandson of Belloc. Charles Eustace gave the Trust a 25-year lease of the mill at a peppercorn rent.
The first priority of the Trustees was to have a survey to see the extent of the repairs needed to restore the mill to full working order, and to raise the necessary money. They engaged a professional millwright, Vincent Pargeter, to carry this out. His report revealed that the necessary works were more extensive than had been envisaged, and, in 1987, would cost in the region of £160,000. However, thanks to substantial donations from the County Council and from Horsham District Council, together with a 40% grant from English Heritage, plus other generous donations both from individuals and grant-giving trusts, it proved possible to make an early start on the necessary works. After tenders had been received from several firms of millwrights, the local firm of Hole and Son was again engaged to carry out the work. The Mill was re-opened, although with only a single pair of sweeps, in July 1990, by the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex. A year later, further grants and donations made it possible to complete the second pair of sweeps, and in May 1991, Shipley Mill was once again working in all her glory.
In 2000, English Heritage gave another grant towards the restoration of the engine shed which is attached to the Mill, and by the end of that year the fabric of the building was completed. The new visitor centre was opened in the northern end in time for the 2001 season. The other end of the building now houses an engine, which is at present being installed to drive the mill when wind is in short supply.
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Clandon Park
Surrey
~16.04 miles from Horley city center
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Clandon Park is an 18th century Palladian mansion in West Clandon just outside Guildford, Surrey, in the United Kingdom. It has been a National Trust property since 1956.
The house was built, or perhaps thoroughly rebuilt, around 1730–33 (the latter date is on rainwater leads), designed by the Venetian architect Giacomo Leoni, replacing an Elizabethan property which was bought in 1641 by Sir Richard Onslow. The new building was commissioned by his great-grandson Thomas, 2nd Baron Onslow. Many members of the Onslow family followed political careers—three of them, including Arthur Onslow, were Speakers of the House of Commons.
Maori Meeting House in Clandon ParkClandon Park's interiors, which were finished into the 1740s, feature a two-storey Marble Hall, containing marble chimney pieces by English sculptor Michael Rysbrack. The building now houses a fine collection of 18th century furniture, porcelain, textiles and carpets, including the Ivo Forde Meissen collection of Italian comedy figures and Mortlake tapestries. The building also houses the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum.
Annual Maori festival at ClandonThe gardens were designed by Lancelot Brown in 1781 and feature a parterre, grotto, sunken Dutch garden and, a later addition—a Maori meeting house named Hinemihi. This was originally situated near Rotorua in New Zealand and provided shelter to local people during the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886. The building was covered in ash and surrounded by lava, but its occupants survived. It remained half buried until 1892 when Lord Onslow, then Governor General of New Zealand, had it removed and shipped to England.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Selhurst Park Stadium
London
~17.25 miles from Horley city center
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Selhurst Park is a British football stadium located in the London suburb of South Norwood in the Borough of Croydon. It is the current home ground of Crystal Palace Football Club. Its present capacity is 26,309.
In 1922 the site, a former brickfield, was bought from the Brighton Railway Company for £2,570. The stadium (designed by Scottish stadium architect Archibald Leitch) was constructed by a Humphreys of Kensington (a firm regularly used by Leitch) for around £30,000, and was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of London on 30 August 1924. There was then only one stand (the present Main Stand), but this was unfinished due to industrial action; Crystal Palace played Sheffield Wednesday and lost 0-1 in front of 25,000 fans.
Two years later, in 1926, England played Wales in an international at the stadium. England amateur matches and various other finals were also staged there, as were other sports including boxing, bicycle polo (in the late 1940s) and cricket and music concerts (in the 1980s). In addition to this, it hosted two games for the 1948 Summer Olympics.
In 1953, the stadium's first floodlights were installed consisting of numerous poles around the 3 sides of terracing and four roof mounted installations on the Main Stand, but were replaced nine years later by floodlights mounted on four pylons in each corner and six installations on the Main Stand roof. Real Madrid marked the occasion by playing the first game under the new set of bulbs - a real footballing coup at the time for third division Palace, as it was Real's first ever match in London.
The ground remained undeveloped until 1969 when Palace were promoted to Division One (then the 1st tier of English football) for the first time. The Arthur Wait Stand was built, and is named after the club's long-serving chairman, who was a builder by trade and was often seen working on the site himself. Arthur Wait was notable for overseeing Palace's rise from the 4th to the 1st Division in the 1960s. The Whitehorse Lane end had a new look with a "second tier" of terracing and brick-built refreshments and toilets along the top.
The Holmesdale Stand from Holmesdale Road
Due to the Safety of Grounds Act, the Holmesdale Road terrace (or the Kop as it was known) had to be split into three sections for safety reasons and this meant the poor facilities fell in the away part. So new facilities were built at the back of the other two parts. In the Summer of 1981, the Main Stand terraced enclosure was re profiled and replaced by seating.
In 1981, Palace sold the back of the Whitehorse Lane terrace and land behind to supermarket retailer Sainsbury's for £2m, to help their financial problems and the size of the terrace at this end was effectively halved when this end reopened.
Charlton Athletic moved in as temporary tenants in 1985, and became with Palace the first league clubs in England to agree such a ground-sharing scheme. In the Summer of 1990, the lower half of the Arthur Wait Stand was converted into all-seater with the assistance of Football Trust Grant Aid, due to the Taylor Report following the Hillsborough Disaster. Two rows of executive boxes (48 in total) were constructed above the Whitehorse Lane terrace on the roof of Sainsbury's supermarket in 1991 and it was roofed and it was made all-seater in the summer of 1993.
Charlton moved back to The Valley via West Ham's Upton Park, and Wimbledon F.C. replaced them as tenants in 1991. The Holmesdale terrace was demolished in 1994 and replaced a year later with a two-tiered 8,500 capacity stand. The roof cladding of the main stand was also replaced, the previous one having started to leak.
When Mark Goldberg bought Crystal Palace, he bought just the club and former Palace chairman Ron Noades retained Selhurst Park. Chairman Simon Jordan took out a ten year lease on the ground upon his purchase of the club in 2000 and Noades received rent from Palace. Wimbledon F.C. relocated to Milton Keynes in 2003, their fans already having decamped to the newly established AFC Wimbledon in protest when the old club were given permission by the FA to move in 2002.
Palace chairman Jordan stated he had completed a purchase of the freehold of Selhurst Park from Altonwood Limited (Ron Noades' company) for £12m in October 2006. In fact as at January 2008 the ownership of the ground is held by Selhurst Park Limited, owned by a joint venture between HBOS and the Rock property empire owned by Paul Kemsley, a former director of Tottenham Hotspur. In April 2008 a 25 year lease was granted to Crystal Palace an annual rent of £1.2m. When the Rock group went into administration in June 2009, the management of the freehold was taken on by PwC acting on behalf of Lloyds Bank which now own HBOS. PwC expect to sell it within two years.[1] Simon Jordan never owned the freehold or had any interest in it and his reasons for claiming he had bought it are unknown.
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Hampton Court Park
London
~17.61 miles from Horley city center
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Hampton Court Park – sometimes called the Home Park – is adjacent to Hampton Court Palace and Gardens in southwest London, United Kingdom.
It is a walled deer park of around 700 acres (2.8 km²) in area and has been open to the public since 1894. The A308 road and the River Thames form its boundaries. North of the A308 is the better-known Bushy Park.
The annual Hampton Court Flower Show is held in 25 acres (100,000 m2) of the Home Park. It is organized by the Royal Horticultural Society and began in 1990. Many prefer it to the better known Chelsea Flower Show because there is more space, and plants and equipment can be bought at the show. As it is the world's most popular event of this type extensive traffic jams can build up. To avoid these visitors should arrive early or by public transport. The show has sometimes been criticized for risking damage to historic features in the park.
One of the main features of the park is The Long Water which runs roughly eastward from the back of Hampton Court Palace. At the eastern end is the Golden Jubilee Fountain.
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Hampton Court Palace
London
~17.81 miles from Horley city center
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Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London; it has not been lived in by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII, circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed to the King, who enlarged it.
The following century, William III's massive rebuilding and expansion project intended to rival Versailles was begun. Work halted in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and an, albeit vague, symmetrical balancing of successive low wings.
Today, the palace is open to the public, and is a major tourist attraction. It is cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces which receives no funding from the Government or the Crown.
The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Along with St. James's Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many owned by Henry VIII.
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The All England Lawn Tennis Club
Church Road Wimbledon Not Applicable
~17.89 miles from Horley city center
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The club currently has 19 tournament courts, 14 other grass courts, which serve as competitors' practice courts during the championship, and several clay and hard courts, which are hidden under temporary stands and marquees during the tournament.
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), also known as the All-England Club, based at Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass. Initially an amateur event that occupied club members and their friends for a few days each summer, the championships have become far more prominent than the club itself. However, it still operates as a members tennis club, with many courts in use all year round.
The Club has 375 full members, about 100 temporary playing members, and a number of honorary members, including past Wimbledon singles champions and people who have rendered distinguished service to the game. In order to become a full or temporary member, an applicant must obtain letters of support from four existing full members, two of whom must have known the applicant for at least three years. The name is then be added to the Candidates' List. Honorary Members are elected from time to time by the club's Committee. Membership carries with it the right to purchase two tickets for each day of the Wimbledon Championships.
The patron of the club is Queen Elizabeth II, and the President is H.R.H. The Duke of Kent[
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Wimbledon Centre Court
Merton
~18.03 miles from Horley city center
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Wimbledon is a suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton and located 7 miles south west of Charing Cross. For most of the past one hundred years, Wimbledon has been internationally known as the home of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Held annually between late June and the beginning of July for two weeks, the tournament takes place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
Centre Court is the main court at the Wimbledon Championship, the 3rd annual Grand Slam event of the tennis calendar. It is situated adjacent to Aorangi Park and is home to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet club, its only regular use is for the two weeks a year that the Championships take place, but it is arguably the most famous tennis venue in the world. This venue has a premier box that the Royal Family use, as well as other distinguished guests and is also known by its postcode SW19. Centre Court will also be used for the tennis competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/index.html
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Brooklands Museum
London
~18.04 miles from Horley city center
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Brooklands was a 2.75 miles (4.43 km) motor racing circuit and airfield built near Weybridge in Surrey, England. It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue.[1] The circuit hosted its last race in 1939, and was also one of Britain's first airfields. Nowadays it plays host to Brooklands Museum, a major aviation and motoring museum, as well as various vintage car rallies.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Horley
Bushy Park
London
~18.08 miles from Horley city center
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Bushy Park is the second largest of the Royal Parks of London, at 445 hectares (1,100 acres) in area,[1] and lies immediately north of Hampton Court Palace and Hampton Court Park, a few minutes' walk west of Kingston upon Thames. It is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south-west London and most of it is open to the public.
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