Surrey | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:15 1 Geography
00:04:53 2 Settlements
00:06:35 3 History
00:06:44 3.1 Ancient British and Roman periods
00:08:25 3.2 Formation of Surrey
00:11:41 3.2.1 Identified sub-kings of Surrey
00:12:05 3.3 West Saxon and English shire
00:16:53 3.3.1 Identified iealdormen/i of Surrey
00:17:17 3.4 Later Medieval Surrey
00:24:53 3.5 Early Modern Surrey
00:32:07 3.6 Modern history
00:39:38 4 Historic architecture and monuments
00:42:33 5 Literature
00:46:48 6 Arts and sciences
00:49:15 7 Popular music
00:51:01 8 Sport
00:54:49 8.1 Surrey football clubs
00:55:53 9 Local government
00:56:03 9.1 History
00:59:35 9.2 Today
01:00:08 10 Economy
01:01:23 11 Transport
01:01:32 11.1 Road
01:04:15 11.2 Rail
01:09:25 11.3 Long-distance national services
01:10:07 11.4 Air
01:10:51 12 Education
01:11:59 12.1 Higher education
01:12:26 13 Emergency services
01:12:43 14 Places of interest
01:15:19 15 In popular culture
01:18:29 16 See also
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SUMMARY
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Surrey ( SURR-ee) is a county in South East England which borders Kent to the east, West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the north-west, and Greater London to the north-east.
With about 1.2 million people, Surrey is the twelfth most populous English county, the third most populous home county, after Kent and Essex, and the third most populous in the South East, after Hampshire and Kent.
Guildford is popularly regarded as the county town, although Surrey County Council is based extraterritorially at Kingston upon Thames.
Surrey is divided into eleven districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and Woking.
The London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, and parts of Lewisham and Bromley were in Surrey until 1889, as were Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton and the part of Richmond upon Thames on the right bank of the River Thames until 1965, when they were absorbed into Greater London, and the county extended north of the Thames by the addition of Spelthorne, as a result of the dissolution of Middlesex.
Surrey is a wealthy county due to economic, aesthetic, conservation and logistical factors. It has the highest GDP per capita of any English county, some of the highest property values outside Inner London, and also the highest cost of living outside of the capital.
Surrey has the highest proportion of woodland of counties in England. It has large protected green spaces (such as the North Downs, Greensand Ridge and related Surrey Hills AONB and royal landscapes adjoin it — Windsor Great Park and Bushy Park near the River Thames). It has four horse racing courses, and golf courses including international competition venue Wentworth.
Surrey is close to Heathrow and Gatwick airports and the M25, M3 and M23 motorways and has frequent rail services to central London.
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Judi Dench, CH DBE FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress, occasional singer and author. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968.
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