49-537: The Gatwick Aviation Museum is located in the village of Charlwood , in Surrey , United Kingdom on the boundary of Gatwick Airport . Originally started in 1987 as a private collection by local businessman Peter Vallance, the museum became a registered charity in 1999 with the objective of providing awareness of local aviation history and as an educational centre for the general public, particularly for local students and schoolchildren. A close relationship exists between
98-643: A recusant Bishop in France, lived there. Sir Richard Lechford, following a Lechford owner of 1567, conveyed the manor in 1625 to Edmund Jordan whose family held it until 1759. A descendant, John Sharp, succeeded and held the property intact until 1806, when he sold the manors of Charlwood, Hook, in the parish and Shiremark in Capel to Thomas Kerr . A historic cricket match was held in Charlwood in June 1741. This
147-503: A crossroads, closest to which is a pub. It is to the north and shares its single statistical output area with Russ Hill above. It has nearest access to the basic amenities of Charlwood in the same way, as well as the much larger amenities of Horley to the east of the parish in social and leisure and employment of Horley and the Borough of Crawley in terms of its economy other than farming and retirement properties which together accounted for
196-417: A large Iron Age hillfort named Anstiebury Camp evidencing early occupation. Multivallate , defined by boundaries consisting of two or more lines of closely set earthworks, this relatively late hill fort constructed in the second and first centuries BC covers approximately 5 hectares (12 acres). There is a triple rampart wall to the north and south-east where the ground is fairly level, a double terrace on
245-423: A minority of the population as at the 2011 Census. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the civil parish which owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion which owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining %
294-493: A series based around the Saturday football side named Charlwood FC Uncovered . The series follows the club and manager Peter Barkley and showcases what happens behind the scenes of a typical non-league English football club. The village had its own cricket club, which closed in 2002. The ground is now used by Ifield Cricket Club. The village has its own primary school , expanded from an infant school in 2016. Charlwood
343-459: Is a clustered semi-agricultural 'village' in many contemporary definitions which is to the east starting at the southern tip of the A217 , between Charlwood's centre and Horley . Hookwood Common was mentioned as ' still open ground ' by the county topographer H. E. Malden in 1911, in the relevant Victoria County History . He also records that the misses Sanders who co-owned Hookwood House belonged to
392-678: Is a Grade II listed stone mansion, built for the publisher Andrew Spottiswoode . It was finished around 1830 and subsequently owned by the Liberal politician Frederick Pennington and writer Henry Du Pré Labouchère . From 1946 to 1969, it was a novitiate house for the White Fathers and in 1971 it became the home of the actor Oliver Reed . Europa Oil & Gas Ltd submitted in 2008 a planning application to Surrey County Council to explore for oil and gas in Coldharbour but this
441-689: Is a station towards London on the Mole Valley Line . Older maps label Beare Green as being where the Duke's Head pub and Weald School are, on the East side of the A24 dual carriageway. This is the original location of Beare Green. This area now has 100 older houses and 120 mobile homes [in 2 parks on Horsham Road], that lie to the South and East. The larger part of Beare Green, that is signed as Beare Green from
490-530: Is also a listed building . The clay soil of the Upper Weald on which Capel lies has a rich history of brick-making. A small brickyard owned by the Lee - Steere family existed next to Ockley and Capel station until the early 1920s. The manager's house named Arundel Cottage still stands. To the south and also adjacent to the railway is the derelict Auclaye Brickworks. The yard which ceased working sometime in
539-555: Is also home to the John Bristow and Thomas Mason Trust, which has its earliest origins in Charlwood's first school established in the early 17th-century, This building is still intact and owned by the Trust. The village has two hotels and several Bed and Breakfasts . The hotels include Stanhill Court, built in 1881 as the home of William Young, a member of Lloyd's of London . In 1986 William Young's great-granddaughter converted
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#1732782875062588-509: Is in the Green Belt surrounding London and has two conservation areas, one in Coldharbour and one in Capel itself. Both Capel and Beare Green have a village hall; each of them puts on a monthly cinema showing, and has many other users and groups Beare Green has a train station with direct services to London Victoria, Holmwood railway station , in the main, new part of the village West of
637-453: Is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). Capel, Surrey Capel ( / ˈ k eɪ p əl / ) is a village and civil parish in southern Surrey , England. It is equidistant between Dorking and Horsham – about 5 miles (8.0 km) away. Around Capel, to the west, skirts the A24 road . Capel is approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of
686-521: Is the second highest point in southeast England and lies on the Greensand Ridge that runs from near Hindhead to the south of Maidstone , Kent . Coldharbour has a conservation area along its highest roads with two listed buildings. Christ Church is a chapel built in 1848. Members of the Wedgwood and Vaughan Williams families lived at Leith Hill Place . Broome Hall near Coldharbour
735-469: The Avro Shackleton MR3 , Blackburn Buccaneer S1, English Electric Lightning F.53 and Percival Sea Prince . In 2016, the new museum building first opened to the public. It houses many aircraft formerly kept outdoors although others in the collection, including some noteworthy examples, were disposed of by the trust in 2013. A shop, refreshment area, flight simulator and information on
784-584: The Charlwood and Horley Act 1974 , ensuring it stayed in Surrey. Charlwood is in the Mole Valley District which co-administers local services with Surrey County Council . Additional local amenities are provided, with Hookwood, by its (civil) parish council . Charlwood's western limestone escarpment is the home of this windmill, which was moved from the village of Lowfield Heath when it
833-598: The Mole Valley district of Surrey , England. It is immediately north-west of London Gatwick Airport in West Sussex , close west of Horley and north of Crawley . The historic county boundary between Surrey and Sussex ran to the south of Gatwick Airport. Boundaries were reformed in 1974 so that the county boundary between Surrey and West Sussex, delineated by the Sussex Border Path , now runs along
882-617: The Reigate Hundred . Its variant spellings from such medieval records as the Feet of fines include: Cherlewude (13th century); Cherlwude (that century and the next, when Chorlwode also appeared). After this Charlewood appears commonly in 18th-century records. The place is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was probably a forest district of the manor of Merstham , Surrey which until shortly after 1911 reached into
931-458: The West Sussex border, 26 miles (42 km) south of London and 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Guildford and is in the Mole Valley district. The village is in the north of a landscape called the Weald , meaning forest, which forms a significant minority of the land today, particularly towards the Greensand Ridge . Within the parish in Coldharbour there is one Scheduled Ancient Monument ,
980-801: The A24 dual carriageway, sits to the West of the A24 and now has 400 homes and all the shops plus the railway station (mis-named Holmwood Station), the village hall and the new playing area. In February 2020, Mole Valley District Council proposed a strategic development of 480 homes on Green Belt land to the South of the settlement. A development of 55 homes to the north of the village was also proposed. The proposals were in Mole Valley District Council's Draft Local Plan which went out for public consultation in February 2020. Field Hockey player, and Olympic Gold Medalist , Stephen Batchelor
1029-573: The A24, and a primary school in old Beare Green to the East of the A24, but has no pubs. The Anglican parish church of St John The Baptist is a grade II listed building , as are eight nearby buildings in the Capel Conservation Area, A Friends Meeting House serves Quakers, who have been in Capel since the 17th century. There is a lively, fairly informal monthly church service in Beare Green Village Hall on
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#17327828750621078-408: The building into an 11 bedroom hotel. The hotel was subsequently sold and increased in bedroom and function room capacity with an additional wing. Glover's Wood, a Site of Special Scientific Interest is wholly within the west of Charlwood, and is noted for its bluebell displays in springtime. Hookwood 51°10′01″N 0°11′10″W / 51.167°N 0.186°W / 51.167; -0.186
1127-431: The building materials industry. A sudden slump in housing prices meant that house-building ground almost to a halt and demand for bricks plummeted. In March 2009, Hanson announced a 'phased closure programme' which began later that month and led to the loss of 61 jobs. The works closed in 2009 after which the site was allowed to deteriorate. The historic Crown Inn is the village's sole surviving public house . The area
1176-520: The clay to accommodate improved production methods. The yard specialised in the production of the dense Phorpres brick. The London Brick Company was acquired by Hanson plc in 1984. They opted to refit the works producing bricks under the Butterley and Capel names. By 2000, the Clock House brickyard was making around 42 million bricks per year. The Great Recession temporarily decimated
1225-490: The first Sunday of each month, at 11:15, known as Café Church, suitable for (and attended by) all ages. Average attendance is about 30, peak so far being 60. A village school was built in 1826 and enlarged in 1872. Capel today has Scott-Broadwood Church of England Infant School and a pre-school. So does the old part of Beare Green, east of the A24 Beare Green ( / ˈ b ɛər / ) is a separate locality also within
1274-408: The growth of timber. Broom Hall [sic] here is an elegant edifice, on the south-eastern confines of Leith Hill . The living is a donative [not a rectory ], in the patronage of Charles Webb, with a net income of £84: the tithes have been commuted for £610. The 13th century church, pictured, was enlarged in 1836, paid by James Shudi Broadwood of the piano-making family from nearby Lyne House and
1323-493: The history of Gatwick Airport can also be found in the building. The museum is open to the public every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Vallance By‐Ways was a grass air strip in the grounds of the Gatwick Aviation Museum. The 465 m-long strip was c. 600 m north of and roughly parallel to the main runway at Gatwick Airport. Charlwood Charlwood is a village and civil parish in
1372-404: The largest hotel in the civil parish of Charlwood. Reflecting its woodland, the statistical area extended to Norwood Hill (see below). Together these outlying parts had a population of 416 across 8.63 square kilometres (3.33 sq mi) as at the 2011 UK Census. Norwood Hill 51°10′37″N 0°13′37″W / 51.177°N 0.227°W / 51.177; -0.227 is spread around
1421-486: The late 1980s was subject to a proposal in 2017 to reopen and extract minerals. This was rejected and the site is subject to a Geological Conservation Review The largest brickyard in the area was The Clock House Brick Company Ltd., opened to the south of Capel in 1933 to exploit a rich seam of clay. It was for seventy years a major source of employment for local inhabitants. In 1941 the majority of shares were acquired by The London Brick Company who expanded quarrying of
1470-623: The museum and the Central Sussex College which uses the museum's facilities to provide practical training for the students taking aerospace courses. On 14 January 2013, Vallance died during heart surgery and, since then, the museum has been run by a charitable trust set up by Vallance to cover this eventuality. The museum has a varied collection of aircraft, aircraft engines and over 500 aircraft models. The museum also has displays and artefacts related to local aviation history particularly Gatwick Airport . Aircraft on display include
1519-411: The names of their tenants in the early 14th century. Timbers in some of the farmhouses have also been dated to 14th century. By 1848 there were 989 inhabitants over 5,522 acres (2,235 ha), of which 105 acres (42 ha) were common or waste. Lewis summarised Capel in that year as: The lands are principally arable, producing good crops of wheat and oats, and the soil is also well adapted to
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1568-418: The northern perimeter of the airport, and the southern extent of Charlwood. A narrow ridge of Sussex Marble runs through the west of the parish, where it is followed for a distance by the Sussex Border Path . Elevations range from 60 to 140m above sea level . No dual carriageways bisect the area and London Gatwick Airport has its perimeter immediately to the south-west. The village anciently lay within
1617-440: The old Sanders family of Charlwood. It is the most projecting settled part of the parish and its nearest amenities are equidistant, either those of economically important Horley or the smaller, more traditional amenities of Charlwood. Russ Hill 51°08′56″N 0°14′28″W / 51.149°N 0.241°W / 51.149; -0.241 is the area to the south west, a semi-agricultural and semi-wooded upland area which has
1666-424: The parish. In the medieval period this was held by Christchurch Priory . About 1890 a vessel of Paludina Limestone (Sussex 'marble') was found on the estate of Mr. Young, Stan Hill/Stanhill, which the finders regarded as an ancient font , but which was perhaps a stone mortar. Charlwood Place is a 16th-century listed moated house situated on the northwestern perimeter of the village. The mother of John Pitseus ,
1715-404: The regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). Aside from the A24 road the village is served by Ockley railway station - considerably closer to Capel than Ockley itself as it was sponsored by a peer of Ockley, on
1764-571: The same A24 bypass with a population of 1,323, made up of 607 households. It is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Capel; Beare Green's roundabout , to its north, is at one end of the A29 road to Bognor Regis on the English Channel . Holmwood railway station is within Beare Green, and is considerably south of South, Mid and North Holmwood, so that it appears to be mis-named. It
1813-496: The story of St Margaret and St Nicholas , amongst others. Providence Chapel, a Grade II* listed building, stands on a lane to the north of the village. The weatherboarded single-storey building was re-erected there in 1816 after being moved from Horsham , where it served as an officers' mess during the Napoleonic Wars. It was used as a Nonconformist chapel for almost 200 years, but was put up for sale in 2012. It
1862-545: The students taking aerospace courses. The village is centred on the "rec", which comprises: a redeveloped children's playground, a sports pavilion, pitches of Charlwood F.C., who currently play intermediate football in the Mid Sussex Championship, and the Sunday side Charlwood Village F.C., as well as a cricket pitch used by Ifield Cricket Club. In August 2019, YouTube channel "Bunch of Amateurs" began
1911-460: The west and south where the ground is much steeper, and a single line of defences to the north-east. The entrance is mid-way along the eastern side, defined by a wide break in the main rampart. Trenches dug in the southeast, the entrance, and a few other investigations in 1972-3 revealed that the front of the main rampart had been set against and into the edge of the associated ditch and revetted with massive, irregular blocks of sandstone. The conclusion
1960-416: Was Surrey v London and won by the county team. The match is the only time that Charlwood features in surviving cricket records. Total enclosure (of the common land ) took place in phases: in 1843, 1844 and 1854, including of Johnson's Common and White's Common, once considered infertile land. Lowfield Heath was in the parish and was enclosed in 1846. Charlwood's cottage hospital opened in 1873 but
2009-492: Was born in Beare Green on 22 June 1961. 1996 Grand National winner, Rough Quest was trained for the race by Terry Casey at Henfold House Stables, in a farm close to Beare Green in Capel. Coldharbour is the locality within the civil parish 3 miles (4.8 km) to the northwest. It is situated on the southern and eastern slopes of Leith Hill in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ; Leith Hill
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2058-743: Was bought by the Providence Chapel Charlwood Trust and restored with the aid of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Gatwick Aviation Museum is located on the northwestern corner of Gatwick Airport. Started in 1987 as a private collection, the museum became a registered charity in 1999. The museum has a varied collection of aircraft, aircraft engines and over 500 aircraft models, and also has displays and artefacts related to local aviation history particularly Gatwick Airport . The museum and Central Sussex College cooperate to provide practical training for
2107-551: Was closed in 1911. Charlwood Boys' School was built in 1840. Charlwood Girls' and Infants' School was built in 1852 and enlarged in 1893. Lowfield Heath School was built in 1868. Gatwick Racecourse , opened in 1891, after the closing of the Croydon Racecourse at Woodside, Croydon . A move of Charlwood from Surrey to West Sussex was included in the Local Government Act 1974 . This was prevented by
2156-779: Was re-occupied in the Roman period, probably at least a century after it was originally abandoned. Capel in the Middle Ages developed only enough to have a chapel of ease , as a chapelry within the parish of Dorking. The chapel, which gives its name to the village, was first mentioned in a confirmation (1129–71) of a grant to the Priory of Lewes by the Earls of Warenne, consisting of 'Ecclesiam de Dorking cum Capella de la Wachna.' The original settlement of Capel consisted of approximately thirty farms, most of which still exist today bearing
2205-566: Was rejected by the Planning Inspectorate based upon a public inquiry in October 2012. The large civil parish at the 2001 census had a population of 3,624, which increased by 208 over the following 10 years. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to
2254-495: Was restored in 1858 by architect Henry Woodyer , who installed a spiral staircase and bell cage in the same style as Buckland 's church. In the 17th and 18th centuries Capel was the centre of a thriving Quaker community which met at the houses of the local Bax family. The Quaker Sussex Quarterly Meeting recorded the fact that Thomas Patching "who then lived at Bonwick's Place in Ifield" met with George Fox , and then later "there
2303-404: Was settled the first Monthly Meeting that was set up in this county .... and has since been removed to the house of Richard Bax at Capel in Surrey by reason of Thomas Patching's removing from that place". It is known that George Fox visited Surrey in 1668 and held a Meeting at Plaistow Farm, Capel, the home of Richard Bax. The Friends Meeting House is in the main conservation area of the village; it
2352-439: Was that the purpose was to resist sling warfare due to the form and width, with rounded pebbles, foreign to the Greensand Ridge , being frequently found in the areas excavated. The archaeologist also considered that the entrance and the defences to the north of it were never completed, possibly linked with the deliberate demolition of the main rampart revetment, and possibly coinciding with Caesar's invasions of Britain . The site
2401-402: Was threatened with demolition in the 1970s, part of which took place to that village to accommodate Gatwick Airport's growth. St Nicholas's is a Grade I listed building with intact Norman era stones. It has a particularly historically significant series of murals on the south wall of the chancel , contemporary with the south aisle which has been dated as c. 1300. These include scenes from
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