Surrey

When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Against her better judgement, she invites him into her …

For fans of true crime and of classic crime fiction, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey is a gripping thriller featuring detective Alan Grant and a masterful exposé of the …

In the eighteenth century, Claremont was among the most famous landscape gardens in Europe. From 1714 it was the home of the leading politician Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, who …

Farnham in Surrey, with its Norman castle and lying on a major route, was an important market town in the Middle Ages. The town’s prosperity was also based on its proximity to …

The Little Book of Surrey is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The …

Guildford History Tour provides a unique insight into the country town of Surrey. Complete with a map of the town's most notable places, readers are invited to see the changing …

Hindhead is a diverse, dramatic landscape and not just in appearance. These Surrey hills also have a myriad of stories to tell. This guidebook uncovers these stories: tales of …

Dorking has long been a popular market town in the Surrey Hills. Lying on a number of major routes, in the eighteenth century the town became an important stopping place for …

R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey’s End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience …

This volume is the third to cover parts of Middlesex which lay from 1889 until 1965 within the county of London. It treats the history of Hackney, the largest parish transferred in …