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Church Road, EPSOM, KT17 4DN

This is one of several alleyways in this part of town which follow the alignment of old field paths, preserved as the town grew, first with villas surrounded by extensive walls, later redeveloped with higher density housing, but with the walls retained. The old walls give this alleyway (and that between the Railway Guard and Upper High Street) a flavour of an older Epsom. The alleyway is the course of Grove Lane, which in the nineteenth century was diverted into Grove Road. The wall on the left is the estate wall of Image

This alley saves only 20m on a 160m walk along Grove Road and Church Road, but even after heavy snow, a well worn path has formed down the centre of the alleyway. For a further description and the view in summer, see Image

A triangular open space on Grove Road, just north of Image Grove Road formerly ran around the outside of this triangle: the cut-off in the foreground was not constructed until between the two World Wars, when the Image estate was being developed with housing. The hedge confirms that the open space was formerly part of the field sandwiched between Grove Road and Grove Lane (Grove Lane is now Image), rather than an outlier of the churchyard.

A quiet corner at the back of the church.

Listed grade II house in The Grove, off Grove Road. Built around 1770, much of the gardens were developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but a good diversity of trees has been retained. The walls around the estate can still be traced along nearby alleyways.

Muir was educated at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge and ordained in 1899. He served curacies at South Shields, Gateshead and Halifax; and incumbencies at Carnforth and Victoria Park (a suburb of Manchester).

Warner was educated at Oriel College Oxford and ordained in 1930. After a curacy at Christ Church Luton he was Vicar of Bishopthorpe in Yorkshire until he came here.

Bainbridge-Bell was educated at Pembroke College Cambridge and ordained in 1887. After curacies in Cheltenham and Chester Square SW1 he was Resident Chaplain to Anthony Thorold, the Bishop of Winchester. He was the incumbent at Micheldever from 1892 until he came here.