Salfords made the national news in January 2008 when a farmer named Robert Fidler built a personal home at Honeycrock Farm similar in style to a Tudor castle and disguised it with hay bales and tarpaulin for four years in an attempt to avoid planning permission from Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.

[8][9][10] Surrey Police opened a 24-cell custody suite at the IO centre on Salbrook Road in 2013, replacing an existing 12-cell facility at Reigate.

The force had originally intended to build a 30-cell suite in Salfords, but reduced the scale of the development after the initial planning application was declined by the borough council.

A Saxon trackway ran from Earlswood to Horley midway between the London to Brighton railway and the modern main road.

[14] It then ran in front of the former Monotype Corporation site towards the Horley gasometer, passed the moated Thunderfield Castle (a 13th-century manor) on 'Harolds Lea'[15] and reached the south coast near Brighton.

In World War II two air raid shelters were built on opposite sides of the long tapering playground.

On the main road Hall & Co, the dominant building materials supplier in the south east of England had their regional maintenance depot, used in WWII to repair war tanks.