Sidlow is the west of the civil parish; a high proportion of its land is taken up by farms; no motorways or railways bisect this part of the parish instead the area has three small tributaries' confluences with the upper River Mole.

Beyond this the road forms a crescent which briefly becomes urban again at the Ironsbottom neighbourhood, a sub-settlement.

Two lines of further development are towards the crescent return of the lane named Ironsbottom at Wrays and south along the A217 at Crutchfield.

[4] Duxhurst Industrial Farm Colony, a voluntary in-patient residential treatment center for the treatment and cure of habitual alcoholic women was founded in 1895 at Duxhurst, about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Reigate railway station,[5] by Lady Henry Somerset.

[6] The 180 acres (73 ha) farm contained home-like cottages, a church, the chaplain's lodge, farm buildings, a hospital, and a large dining and recreation hall.