The Dorking Stove and Fireplace Emporium
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The Dorking Stove and Fireplace Emporium
Image: © Andy Potter Taken: 24 Mar 2009
Something of a feature of the A24 at Holmwood the sign over the door says "The Holly & Laurel Emporium". Suppliers of "new and reclaimed Stoves, Fireplaces, Gas Fires, Accessories and Flue Pipes" "together with a wide range of landscape furniture and other items of Architectural Salvage". See their website http://www.dorkingstoves.com for more information. Previously the Laurel and Holly Hotel it also looks a likely candidate for the Sawyers Arms, marked on the 1873 map.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.19437
Longitude
-0.325912