Buffers Lane
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Buffers Lane
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 13 Sep 2019
Cul-de-sac off Kingston Road. The name commemorates the first Leatherhead railway station which was situated where the houses in the background now stand. The station had opened on 1 February 1859 when the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway had a terminus here. Following the extension of the railway to Dorking and Horsham by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1867, to link with the mid-Sussex line there, the station was closed with both the LB&SCR and London and South Western Railway (which had by then taken over the Epsom and Leatherhead Railway) opening their own separate stations nearer the town centre.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.30611
Longitude
-0.330744