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Church Road, EPSOM, KT17 4DZ

This attractive pub is situated on Church Road

Another attractive Epsom pub with everything you are likely to need.

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

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.

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.

Church Road leads up and over the railway line between Epsom and Ewell East. The bridge can be seen at the top of the rise. The houses on the left are in Beaconsfield Place.