Villages Along the A25 - Oxted in Surrey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2019
- This is the second in a small mini series about the villages that lie along the A25 in Surrey. I have teamed up again with Marq English and to explore this small town.
Oxted is a commuter town with a railway station, with direct train services to London and has the district council offices. Its main developed area is contiguous with the village of Limpsfield and it is twinned with a town called sandford for the greater good. Six intermittent headwaters of the River Eden unite in the occasional market town including its furthest source, east of Titsey Place. The Eden feeds into Kent's longest river, the Medway. Only the southern slope of the North Downs is steep and its towns and farmland form the Vale of Holmesdale, a series of headwaters across Surrey and Kent to separate rivers.
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Oxted is a very picturesque little town. Just loved all those timber frame houses & buildings w/ all their flowers!😘 So pretty!!!
Thanks Lisa.
When I was a lad Churchill regularly came into our local pub(The White Hart), he was a great darts player, and loved a single malt - he was regularly brahms and liszt but got on well with us locals(my Dad).
Lovely!
Thanks for this video showing Old Oxted, you could do a follow up on Oxted showing the town, park, shops, train station, St Mary’s Church and Oxted School. It is very different from the old Oxted side. Both are lovely and we love living here. Thanks 😊
The Crown, if I recall, was the main pub for local teens to drink in the Surrey area (Lingfield, Hurst Green, Oxted, Dormsnsland, etc), who usually were pupils at the nearby Oxted (County) School (alongside the "Cage Cabin" pub in Lingfield). The Old Bell was owned by a football player/manager at one time, I think, and they didn't really want the "kids" in that pub (so they had rules such as patrons couldn't drink directly from the bottle, etc). The Wheatsheaf pub was more popular with "heavy metal" fans when I was a teen.
Most of this changed, however, when a new "Wetherspoons" chain pub opened right next to Oxted train station (which is on the other side of the "new", but still picturesque, town).
Lovely to see you Richard and Marq together, love to see villages.. That was good to see the old telephone box, well looked after. Look forward to more videos on villages.
There is more to come - thanks so much Ann.
Ah another A25 village, that looks nice there, I do like a Good old timber framed pup all very traditional! That was very interesting you two, well done great video 👍
Thanks George. On another note - I have something for you now from USA.
Oh, the banter.... :)
Indeedy sir.
It's difficult to imagine who would use a telephone box often enough for BT (or the GPO or whoever) to maintain it. Especially in Oxted. I like to imagine a well dressed dowager making her way from a late medieval house to call her florist.
After we filmed, there was a queue to use the box. :)
Great video 👍🏻
Old Oxted is the old medieval village. After the railway came in the 1880s, the town moved north and became centred around the railway station and the medieval church that was set away from the original village. This meant that the old high street (the road you walked down) became a quiet backwater.
Great video :)
Much more interesting to walk down the quieter part than the Victorian and more modern.
You two should become Surrey estate agents! :-) I love the second part of your description. Oxted is definitely a village of two-halves. The part north of the A25 is very different from the south (where you were.) It also have a big Morrisons!
We decided not to shoot in the north end. :)
I used to use pre-decimal coins in the older AB boxes
Those were the days! :)
There's a by-law that stated no pubs are to be built in Oxted hence why Old Oxted has so many. There is a Witherspoon's in Oxted now though it's on land owned by British Rail and is exempt from that particular law.
How interesting. :)
I've got thing to come from British Rail!
Great video Richard
Many thanks!
I love English villages and churches.
They are lovely I agree.
Oxted is a lovely village but as i recall there are two halves to Oxted dissected by the A21 you were in the lower part of Oxted but there is another high street to the north.
We did have a quick look, but it wasn't worth of our camera! :)
It would appear that The Old Bell dates from considerably earlier than 1606...some sources say the 1400s...blimey!
The whole place does look beautiful though...
I must sack that adviser of mine! :)
I live in Oxted
Noisy. Yikes. Beautiful though
I live there
Nice place to visit wouldn’t want to live there too noisy 🙈 cars everywhere , Tom jones bought the phone box from the street where he grew up in Wales an put it in the garden of his Beverley hills mansion , not too many of them k6 around now .
Traffic is a big problem - does seem a shame to pay all the money for a beautiful house like those and then have to put up with the noise and pollution of the cars, buses and lorries.
I can see that is a expensive place to live,where are the people? Held captive to Iphones?
We never saw a soul!
Most people live in the "new" or main area of Oxted, down the road. It's within walking distance. Even that area is a tad expensive to live in.
You might want to have another look at your thumbnail link for this video - Villages along the A5!
Oh yes - thank you.
Yes,not so much the two Ronnies,more like the two Witty Banterers! If you see a blue plague on a building,always have a look! Sometimes you can get a real surprise!
I hope we were entertaining nonetheless :)
I enjoyed this.....and googling doomsday book 1086.
As always, I learned a lot..
If you got room in the Peugeot, can you grab me a phone box?? You have my address....thanx
I will send over a K6 phone box very soon! :)
Nice village but not as nice as Godstone. On the type of people living in villages it is the same in many villages in the north in that they are becoming places commuters. Even the town I live in is going the same way with new build now exceeding the original houses. The problem I have notice in both village and town is that commuters bring nothing to the area.
Very true! Well said.
Commuter? Mea Culpa. I make every effort to spend my higher London earnings as locally as is possible. If I could earn in Warlingham
/Limpsfield or Oxted like I do in town then I'd never leave. That 06.02 train to L'Bridge is the hardest part of my day.
More concerned about Mark English's tattoo of a satanic star..