Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, about 17 mi (27 km) south of Central London.
The settlement grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, from which its name is thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxon period, Leatherhead was a royal vill and is first mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great in 880 AD. The first bridge across the Mole may have been constructed in around 1200 and this may have coincided with the expansion of the town and the enlargement of the parish church.
Getting to Leatherhead
M25 Junction 9. On the South Western Railway form London Waterloo to Dorking.
- 01Leatherhead
Worth seeing
- 01Leatherhead Museum
T Fri 1-4PM Sat 10Am-4PM (Closed Sun-Wed).
Things to do
- 01Mole Gap Trail
- 02Surrey Society of Model Engineers
Mill Ln, Fetcham, Leatherhead KT22 9AA, enquiries@ssme.co.uk.
Getting around Leatherhead the local way
- Go nextRoad/rail links to Oxford (with organised day trips to Blenheim Palace or Henley on Thames) and Salisbury (with organised day trips to the Stonehenge museum) are good.
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