Visit Earlswood Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Earlswood

  

Earlswood Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Earlswood

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Earlswood history

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Earlswood Common was converted from open pasture to a pleasure ground in the late 1800s. The suburb is home to a psychiatric hospital, opened by Albert, Prince Consort, which functioned until 1997. The lower lake was used during the First World War to test tanks’ ability to cross flooded landscapes.

Earlswood geography / climate

Earlswood Common is a Local Nature Reserve. It contains two artificial landscaped lakes used for recreational purposes. The upper lake has ducks and wildfowl. The golf course was forced to close in March 2019, after 130 years.

You can visit Earlswood places with Walkfo Earlswood to hear history at Earlswood’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Earlswood has 36 places to visit in our interactive Earlswood map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Earlswood, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Earlswood places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Earlswood & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 36 audio facts unique to Earlswood places in an interactive Earlswood map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Earlswood Places Map
36 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Earlswood historic spots	Earlswood tourist destinations	Earlswood plaques	Earlswood geographic features
Walkfo Earlswood tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Earlswood

  

Best Earlswood places to visit

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Earlswood has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Earlswood’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Earlswood’s information audio spots:

SES Water SES Water is the UK water supply company to its designated area of east Surrey, West Sussex, west Kent and south London. An area of 322 square miles (830 km) extends from Morden and South Croydon in the north to Gatwick Airport in the south, and from Cobham and Dorking in the west to Edenbridge and Bough Beech in the east.

Wray Common Mill, Reigate Wray Common Mill is a grade II* listed tower mill at Reigate, Surrey, England. It has been converted to residential use.

St John’s, Redhill St John’s is in its wider definition one of the three ecclesiastical parishes that make up Redhill, Surrey. The small elevated residential community occupies a conservation area circled by Earlswood and wooded Redhill Common.

Earlswood railway station (Surrey) Earlswood is on the Brighton Main Line, 21 miles 50 chains (34.8 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill and south of the junction between the Redhill line and Quarry line. Train services are provided by Thameslink and Southern.

Royal Earlswood Hospital The Royal Earlswood Hospital was the first establishment to cater specifically for people with developmental disabilities. Previously they had been housed either in asylums for the mentally ill or in workhouses.

London Defence Positions The London Defence Positions were a late 19th century scheme of earthwork fortifications in the south-east of England. Designed to protect London from foreign invasion landing on the south coast. The positions were a carefully surveyed contingency plan for a line of entrenchments.

East Surrey Hospital East Surrey Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in the Whitebushes area to the south of Redhill, in Surrey, England. It is managed by the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

Reigate Town Hall Reigate Town Hall is the meeting place of Reigate and Banstead Borough Council. The town hall is a Grade II listed building. It is a municipal building in Castlefield Road, Reigate, Surrey.

Old Town Hall, Reigate The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Reigate, Surrey, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

South Park F.C. South Park Football Club are based in Reigate, Surrey. They play in the Isthmian League South Central Division. The club is affiliated to the Surrey County Football Association.

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