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Specialty Museum Attractions In Surrey

  • 1. Gatwick Aviation Museum Charlwood
    Gatwick Airport , also known as London Gatwick is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, 29.5 miles south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow. Gatwick is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe. Until 2017, it was the busiest single-use runway airport in the world covering a total area of 674 Hectares.Gatwick opened as an aerodrome in the late 1920s, it has been in use for commercial flights since 1933. The airport has two terminals, the North Terminal and the South Terminal, which cover areas of 98,000 m2 and 160,000 m2 respectively. It operates as a single-runway airport, using a main runway with a length of 3,316 m . A secondary runway is available but, due to its ...
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  • 2. National Trust - Shalford Mill Shalford
    This is a list of National Trust properties in England, including any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of the National Trust in England.
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  • 3. Rural Life Centre Tilford
    The Rural Life Centre is in Tilford, Surrey near Farnham in southern England. It is a museum of country life originally assembled by Mr and Mrs Henry Jackson and is run by a charitable trust. It covers over 10 acres of field, woodland and barns, and comprises a large number of implements and devices marking over 150 years of farming. There is also an arboretum with over one hundred species of trees.The museum displays farming through the seasons, local hop growing, tools and crafts allied to country industries and needs. The social history of village life from the 19th century is displayed covering school life, domestic work, period shops and trades. There is a working iron furnace and a woodyard, both run by the volunteers. It also hosts the 2 ft narrow gauge Old Kiln Light Railway and a ...
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  • 4. Brooklands Museum Weybridge
    The Brooklands Museum is an air museum in Weybridge, Surrey, England, operated by the independent Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd as a charitable trust and a private limited company incorporated on 12 March 1987; its aim is to conserve, protect and interpret the unique heritage of the Brooklands site. The museum is located south of Weybridge, Surrey and was first opened regularly in 1991 on 30 acres of the original 1907 motor-racing circuit. It includes four Listed buildings: the 1907 Brooklands Automobile Racing Club Clubhouse and Members' Hill Restaurant buildings, the 1911 Flight Ticket Office, and a 1940 Bellman aircraft hangar. Surviving sections of the 1937 Campbell Circuit, the 1907 Finishing Straight and Members' Banking , the 1909 Test Hill, and a WW2 'Bofors' gun tower are all import...
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  • 5. Honeywood Museum Carshalton
    Carshalton is a town in south London, England. Historically part of Surrey, it is located 9.9 miles south-southwest of Charing Cross, situated in the valley of the River Wandle, one of the sources of which is Carshalton Ponds in the centre of the village. Carshalton is centred 1.2 miles east of the town centre of Sutton, within the London Borough of Sutton. Carshalton consists of a number of neighbourhoods. The main focal point, Carshalton Village, is visually scenic and picturesque. At its centre it has two adjoining ponds, which are overlooked by the Grade II listed All Saints Church on the south side and the Victorian Grove Park on the north side. The Grade II listed Honeywood Museum sits on the west side, a few yards from the water. There are a number of other listed buildings, as well...
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  • 7. London Bus Museum Weybridge
    The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collection of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of transportation in the city. The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, sometimes suffixed by Covent Garden, and is open to the public every day, having reopened in 2007 after a two-year refurbishment. The other site, located in Acton, is known as the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site that is open on regular visitor days throughou...
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  • 8. Godalming Museum Godalming
    Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, 4 miles SSW of Guildford. The town traverses the banks of the River Wey in the Greensand Ridge – a hilly, heavily wooded part of the outer London commuter belt and Green Belt. In 1881, it became the first place in the world to have a public electricity supply and electric street lighting.Godalming is 30.5 mi southwest of London and shares a three-way twinning arrangement with the towns of Joigny in France and Mayen in Germany. Friendship links are in place with the US state of Georgia and with Moscow. James Oglethorpe of Godalming was the founder of the colony of Georgia. Godalming is regarded as an expensive residential town, partly due to its visual appeal, favoura...
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  • 9. Museum Guildford
    In countries whose armies are organised on a regimental basis, such as the army of the United Kingdom, a regimental museum is a military museum dedicated to the history of a specific army regiment.
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  • 10. Leith Hill Place Dorking
    Leith Hill is a wooded hill 7 kilometres to the south west of Dorking, Surrey, England. It reaches 294 metres above sea level, the highest point on the Greensand Ridge, and is the second highest point in south-east England, after Walbury Hill near Newbury, Berkshire, 297 metres high. Leith Hill is the highest ground for 49 miles. It was possibly on the summit of Leith Hill in 851, that Æthelwulf of Wessex, father of Alfred the Great, defeated the Danes who were heading for Winchester, having sacked Canterbury and London.The nearest railway station is Holmwood Station, 2 miles to the east. This station is served by Southern trains on the Sutton & Mole Valley Line route.
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  • 11. Chertsey Museum Chertsey
    Chertsey is a town in the Runnymede borough of Surrey, England on the right bank of the River Thames where it is met by a corollary, the Abbey River and a tributary, the River Bourne or Chertsey Bourne. It is within a narrow projection of the Greater London Urban Area, aside from the Thames bordered by Thorpe Park, junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway, the town of Addlestone and south-western semi-rural villages that were formerly within Chertsey . Chertsey is centred 29 kilometres southwest of central London, has a branch line railway station and less than 1 mile north of its developed centre is the M3 . Chertsey's built environment has the medieval tower and chancel roof of its Anglican church, a large curfew bell to English medieval folklore heroine Blanche Heriot and 18th cen...
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  • 13. Haslemere Educational Museum Haslemere
    Haslemere is a town in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England. It is located at the tripoint with Hampshire and West Sussex, approximately 12 miles southwest of Guildford, and is the most southerly town in Surrey. The town lies to the east of the A3, the major road between London and Portsmouth. The town's railway station is served by South Western Railway, with services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, and there is a small commercial district with service and retail amenities. The south branch of the River Wey rises to the south of the town, on Black Down in West Sussex.
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  • 15. Leatherhead Museum Leatherhead
    Leatherhead is a town in Surrey, England on the right bank of the River Mole, and at the edge of the contiguous built-up area of London. Its local district is Mole Valley. Records exist of the place from Anglo Saxon England. It has a combined theatre and cinema, which is at the centre of the re-modelling following late 20th century pedestrianisation. The streets bypassing the town centre close and feature in the annual London-Surrey cycle classic. Just north-east of the midpoint of Surrey and at a junction of ancient north–south and east–west roads, elements of the town have been a focus for transport throughout its history. A main early spur to this was the construction of the bridge over the seasonally navigable River Mole in the early medieval period. Later the Swan Hotel provided 3...
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