IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
DORKING, RH5 6BD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to RH5 6BD by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Listing (356 Images Found)
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Polesden Lacey
The future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, spent the first part of their 1923 honeymoon relaxing at Mrs Greville's house in the Surrey Hills.
Dame Margaret Greville was the owner of Polesden Lacey from 1906–1942. It was here where she entertained royalty, politicians and countless celebrities at lavish weekend parties. From a quiet childhood in Scotland, she became one of the early 20th Century’s most powerful socialites.
Margaret passed away at the Dorchester Hotel on 15 September 1942, leaving Polesden Lacey to the National Trust ‘for the largest number of people to have enjoyment thereof’.
Image: © Peter Trimming
Taken: 4 Jan 2020
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Polesden Lacey - Ignite 2021 - Clock Tower
"Ignite" - a popular after dark son et lumiere, late autumn 2021, at Polesden Lacey Garden (NT).
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/polesden-lacey
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 4 Nov 2021
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Polesden Lacey - Ignite 2021
"Ignite" - a popular after dark son et lumiere, late autumn 2021, at Polesden Lacey Garden (NT).
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/polesden-lacey
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 4 Nov 2021
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Polesden Lacey - Ignite 2021
"Ignite" - a popular after dark son et lumiere, late autumn 2021, at Polesden Lacey Garden (NT).
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/polesden-lacey
Image: © Colin Smith
Taken: 4 Nov 2021
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East elevation, Polesden Lacey, Great Bookham, near Dorking
The original house was built by the famous master builder Thomas Cubitt in the 1820s. In the early 20th century it was much extended by subsequent owners and is now in most respects an Edwardian property. It was owned from 1906 to 1942 by Margaret Greville, a very wealthy widow. On her death she left the house to the much-loved and often unfairly reviled National Trust, rather to the surprise of George VI and Queen Elizabeth who had apparently expected to inherit the property, an expectation based on a promise supposedly made to George V by Margaret in 1914. Perhaps this was just as well as Elizabeth allegedly subsequently opined that the property would entail a lot of upkeeping. Elizabeth had to console herself with several thousand pounds worth of jewellery instead. For information about the house's interior see http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/polesden-lacey/features/a-tour-around-the-house-at-polesden-lacey
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall
Taken: 15 May 2016
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Polesden Lacey
The south front of Polesden Lacey, dating from the extensive remodelling by society hostess, Margaret Greville, in 1906.
Image: © Ian Capper
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
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