Lingfield, Surrey

Lingfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, approximately 23 miles (37 km) south of London.

Baldwin Hill School was built in 1874 and enlarged in 1898.On the creation of Surrey County Council in the late 19th century, the civil parish's responsibilities became somewhat lessened but its area was approximately the same as in the medieval period, 36.8 square kilometres (14.2 sq mi) and it was this size which led to the decision to make Lingfield a post town across an even larger area.

[4][5] With the backing of the Women's Farm and Garden Union, Louisa Wilkins and Katherine Courtauld established a cooperative set of small holdings in 1920 on Wire Mill Lane in Lingfield.

[11] Old Town Hall and Old Town Cottage form one Grade II* listed building[12] The journal Le Globe Trotter from 26 February 1903, page 130, describes this place and provides a drawing of it, writing that this is the smallest church in the world, and not a prison place.

[18] This narrow terrace of Grade II* listed cottages is at the end of the narrow central street leading to the church though excluding the end-of-terrace Church Gate Cottage which is lower listed, dates to the Tudor period with a Georgian front including a deep wooden modillion eaves cornice, formerly in part an Inn.

Little now remains except parts of its walls, Grade II* listed[20] and the moat, which is stone revetted, waterfilled and in good condition.

Piers/Lingfield Hospital School/Lingfield Epileptic Colony), which provides residential care and education for students with epilepsy and learning difficulties.

Lingfield Civil Parish run annual events, meetings and village hall facilities offered by the third-tier local council.

Felcourt's large Manor House and parkland was the head office of Rentokil Initial from 1949 until 2006; converted to apartments and a small business park.

A short lived greyhound racing track was opened from October 1991 until 1992 at the Nestledown Kennels off the Eastbourne Road.

The track had a large circumference of 475 metres with race distances of 300, 475 and 700 yards and two hares available, an Inside Sumner and an Outside McKee.

[28] Refurbishment, finished in Spring 2013, of the Bluebell Railway made that steam tourist service accessible directly by car or modern train.

Bus services cover destinations such as Caterham, Oxted, Redhill, Crawley, Edenbridge, Dormansland and East Grinstead and are Southdown, Cruisers and Metrobus operations.

Cage (or Old Gaol) and pillared cross