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Encyclopedia Britannica



DORKING

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 429 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DORKING , a market town in the
Reigate
  parliamentary division of Surrey, England, 26 m. S.S.W. of London, on the London,
Brighton
  &
South
 
Coast
  and the
South
 -Eastern . & Chatham railways. Pop. of urban
district
  (19b1) 767o. It is pleasantly situated on the river Mole, in a sheltered vale near the base of Box Hill. It is the centre of an extensive residential
district
 . The parish
church
  of St Martin's is a handsome edifice rebuilt in 1873. Lime of exceptionally good quality is burnt to a large extent in the neighbourhood, and forms an important article of
trade
 ; it is derived from the Lower Chalk formation. Dorking has
long
  been famous for a finely flavoured breed of fowl distinguished by its having five toes. Several fine mansions are in the vicinity of the town, notably that of Deepdene, contain-ing part of a gallery of sculpture collected here by
Thomas
 
Hope
 , the author of Anastasius. A Roman road, which crossed from the Sussex
coast
  to the Thames, passed near the present churchyard of St Martin.


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