19-612: The River Tillingbourne (also known as the Tilling Bourne ) runs along the south side of the North Downs and joins the River Wey at Guildford . Its source is a mile south of Tilling Springs to the north of Leith Hill at grid reference TQ143437 and it runs through Friday Street , Abinger Hammer , Gomshall , Shere , Albury , Chilworth and Shalford . The source is a semi-natural uninhabited area. The catchment
38-626: A trout farm, watercress beds, a business growing reeds and a gin distillery. The river passes through the Albury estate which operates recreational fisheries at Weston fishery, Vale End fishery and Powder Mills fishery. The river's natural course has been diverted slightly here for the purposes of the estate. The Shalford pumping station, close to the junction with the Wey, provides between 4 and 7 million gallons of water per day to supply Godalming and parts of Guildford. The River Tillingbourne supports
57-612: A fish population of both wild brown trout and coarse fish . The Environment Agency has been working with local fishermen to improve the habitat for these fish by recreating a pool and riffle habitat and by cutting back overhanging vegetation. The signal crayfish is a recent invasive species. The river and its environs are often studied by students from nearby field studies centres, such as Sayers Croft and Juniper Hall. There are on-going problems with invasive plants caused by phosphate enrichment due to waste-water treatment from sewage works in addition to agricultural run-off. The river
76-714: A member of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1910, and died on 7 November 1918. As a young man Wood studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art , and learnt to sketch on Hampstead Heath, near to the family home at 38 Park Road, Haverstock in Hampstead. His work was influenced by his father, who he accompanied on sketching trips around the UK, and on several of his painting tours of Northern Europe. His early work from these trips includes Rue de Hallage, Rouen (1869) and A Tyrolean Scene . He also studied at
95-691: A record of many of the places to which he ventured, including Cumbria in the summer of 1890, North Wales in the summer of 1891, and as far north as the Trossachs in Perthshire. In 1892 Wood returned to the continent to paint in towns in Northern France and travelled to Limburg in Germany, which his father had portrayed in his 1862 scene Limburg an der Lahn, Blick in die Altstadt mit dem Dom St. Georg . Paintings from Pinhorn Wood's trip included
114-720: Is classified as a subsequent stream , since its course is determined by the direction of the stratum of softer rock for the majority of its length. The river has four principal tributaries: the Friday Street stream joins at Wotton House; the Holmbury St Mary stream joins at Abinger Hammer; the Sherbourne Brook drains the Silent Pool and Sherbourne Pond and the Law Brook joins near Postford. From
133-720: Is rated good or fail. The water quality of the Tillingbourne was as follows in 2022: 51°13′02″N 0°32′59″W / 51.2171°N 0.54984°W / 51.2171; -0.54984 North Downs Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 573311647 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:47:47 GMT Lewis Pinhorn Wood Lewis Pinhorn Wood (1848–1918)
152-414: Is situated on sandstone which has a low rate of weathering. The Tillingbourne is 24 km (15 mi) in length. The Tillingbourne initially flows northward for 4 km (2.5 mi) down the northern slopes of Leith Hill over a series of weirs and cascades, before turning west to run for 14 km (8.7 mi) through Abinger Hammer and Chilworth towards the River Wey at Shalford . The river
171-571: The West London School of Art , in Bolsover Street. From 1873 to 1884 Wood worked as an art master at University College School in Hampstead, a job allowing him to continue his painting tours of the country, particularly during the summer months. From the 1870s onward, Wood focussed on rural landscapes, working mainly in watercolour, but occasionally in oil, across Sussex, Surrey and some London Boroughs. His work played into
190-534: The 17th to the mid 20th centuries the Tillingbourne valley was a major industrial area due to its closeness to London and the ease of transport via the Wey and the Thames . The river was used to power a relatively large number of mills in the area. Some 24 mill sites have been identified along the course of the river, used for such diverse industries as gunpowder , paper making for bank-notes, iron-working, wire-making, fulling , tanning and pumping water, as well as
209-1202: The Victorian appetite for idyllic, sentimental scenes of rural life. He exhibited regularly in London at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours , the Dudley Gallery, and elsewhere. He exhibited three times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, with In the Meadows at Arundel (1876), As the tree falls, so must it lie (1877), and Wheat Field, near Fairley, Sussex (1881). Pinhorn Wood also travelled widely around Britain in pursuit of iconic scenes beyond his mainstay of Surrey and Sussex. From early in his career he compiled an album of his travels entitled Sketches from Nature 1869–1908 . Full of dated pencil and watercolour sketches, it provides
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#1732780067027228-421: The choicest retreats of man, which seems formed for a scene of innocence and happiness, has been, by ungrateful man, so perverted as to make it instrumental in effecting two of the most damnable of purposes; in carrying into execution two of the most damnable inventions that ever sprang from the minds of man under the influence of the devil! Namely, the making of gunpowder and of banknotes! Present day users include
247-529: The church of St Saviour in Hampstead, Middlesex. They had four children; the illustrator and designer Clarence Lawson Wood (1878–1957), Eveline, Esmond and Enid. In early married life Pinhorn Wood lived and worked at Burnside in the village of Shere , Surrey, before moving to Highgate , London, and latterly to Homefield Road in Chiswick . In later life he lived in Pevensey , Sussex, where he registered as
266-626: The moon". In January 1901 he joined the Savage Club as an 'Art' member. In April 1906 the Modern Gallery on New Bond Street, London, held an exhibition titled ‘Three Generations’, showing work by LJ Wood (cathedrals), Pinhorn Wood (landscapes) and Lawson Wood (humorous scenes) together. A similar exhibition of work from the three generations of the family was held by Walker’s Galleries of New Bond Street in February 1912. In 1921
285-521: The more conventional flour, grist and malt milling. Some of the earliest gunpowder mills were those set up in 1626 by The East India Company at Chilworth . John Evelyn wrote in his diary in 1676: I do not remember to have seen such Variety of Mills and Works upon so narrow a Brook, and in so little a Compass, there being Mills for Corn, Cloth, Brass, Iron, Powder etc. Not every one was so impressed, William Cobbett wrote: This valley, which seems to have been created by bountiful providence, as one of
304-481: The river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of invertebrates , angiosperms and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations,
323-525: The substantial Limburg an der Lahn , an idyllic view across the Lahn river towards the castle and cathedral of Limburg. In 1890, aged 41 and with a young family of four, he wrote a story for children entitled "Harry Goodchild's Day Dream: A Tale". The 28 page book was published by George Stoneman. The monthly magazine The Coming Day reviewed it as "A childish but rather pretty story about two children who were gifted with wings to enable them to fly for once to
342-558: Was a British landscapist and watercolourist , best known for his rural scenes of Sussex and Surrey. In the tradition of the Victorian era, his work depicted idyllic scenes of rural life across the home counties . Born in Middlesex in 1848, his father was Lewis John Wood (1813–1901), the 19th-century architectural artist and lithographer renowned principally for his specialisation in architectural scenes from across Belgium and Northern France . In 1875, he married Louisa Howard Watson in
361-616: Was championed by the Victorian landscape painter, Lewis Pinhorn Wood , who lived in Shere from 1884 to 1897, and painted extensively along its banks with scenes including The Silent Pool , Twilight (1888) and Evening on the Tillingbourne (1889). The writer, Ralph Lawrence, recalls hearing the guns on the Western Front while walking in Hurtwood on the southern slopes of the valley . The Environment Agency measure water quality of
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