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Leighton Way, EPSOM, KT18 7QZ

This alleyway (Epsom & Ewell footpath 120) is barely wide enough to pass two people (and they'd have to pass sideways on). In common with most alleyways in Epsom, it follows the alignment of old field paths, and is bounded by tall brick walls which formerly enclosed villas built outside the town centre. The path originally provided a link between Madans Walk and Worple Road, which predated the laying out of Avenue Road.

The project the crane was assisting was not investigated.

Entrance from Woodcote Road.

On the corner of Ashley Road and Worple Road.

This was built somewhere between 1880 and 1896 if maps are to be believed.

The Ladas was a pub on the corner of Woodcote Road and Madans Walk, named (in common with several other pubs locally) after a Derby winner: in this case, the 1894 winner. And in common with several other pubs locally, it has closed — in 2011, and subsequently was converted to residential accommodation. To the left of the letter box are Royal Automobile Club signs pointing to Woodcote Park and Epsom. These have carefully been preserved, as Woodcote Park is the country premises of the Club — notwithstanding that the RAC motoring organisation (formerly responsible for these signs) and the Club have long since gone their separate ways. To the right is Chalk Lane, which leads up to Epsom Downs.

Epsom, because of its history as a spa and as a racing centre, has numerous attractive houses dating from well before the motor car. This group on Woodcote Road, opposite Chalk Lane, had to be photographed when there was a gap in the traffic.

Rosebery Park is just to the south of Epsom town centre. The pond is its one water feature and this view looks over the railings surrounding the pond area to the adjacent vegetation.