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Over the Easter Weekend, there will be some very special Easter Egg hunts around the “Homes for Woodland Creatures”, Ridlands Grove, Limpsfield Chart, in aid of the George & The Giant Pledge for The Royal Marsden. This is the charity pledge set up by the parents of courageous little cancer fighter, George Woodall.
Continue reading “Join Peter Rabbit’s Easter Egg Hunt for George & The Giant Pledge”
Next Saturday, 4th March 2017, Limpsfield will be filled with the sound of high energy, big band jazz as St Peter’s Hall hosts the popular JetStream Jazz band. Proceeds from the bar will go to Moor House School & College. The JetStream Jazz Band is dedicated to providing energetic and fun performances of big band chart sounds and promises something for everyone. Continue reading “Don’t Miss: JetStream Jazz Big Band – next Saturday in Limpsfield”
On Sunday, March 19 at 6pm, The North Downs Community Orchestra (NDCO) will host a free first birthday concert in Hazelwood School’s new concert hall, Bawtree Hall. Continue reading “North Downs Community Orchestra hosts free concert at Hazelwood”
You may (or may not) have noticed that the area around Limpsfield has a recurring motif – the grasshopper. This chirpy little critter has given its name to The Grasshopper Inn and Grasshopper on the Green in Westerham and to the local youth team of the Limpsfield and Oxted Cricket Club. It also features as the emblem of Titsey Manor (The Titsey Crest), Botley Hill Farmhouse, The Limpsfield Chart Golf Club and the Limpsfield Decorative Fine Arts Society! Continue reading “Why is the Limpsfield area overrun with grasshoppers?”
Tomorrow, Wednesday (22 February), the Limpsfield Decorative & Fine Arts Society will host renowned archeologist Louise Schofield for a fascinating lecture on temples, tombs and treasures. The former British Museum curator who has carried out many excavations in Ethiopia is also a director of the Tigray Trust.
The lectures take place tomorrow, Wednesday 22nd Feb at 2.30PM and 8PM in St Peter’s Hall. Guests welcome. Continue reading “Don’t miss: Temples, Tombs and Treasures at Limpsfield Arts Society”
If you’ve ever wondered why there’s a Mill Lane and Mill Cottages on Limpsfield Chart, but were afraid to ask… well, it is the site of the Chart Mill which stood on the Chart until 1925. According to OckleyWindmill‘s history on Surrey mills, the mill on Limpsfield Chart was built around 1817 and is unique among Surrey’s mills, because it was the only one to have clockwise sweeps…apparently most mills sweep anti-clockwise… Continue reading “Flashback Friday: Chart Windmill, Limpsfield Chart”
Who knew we had a beautiful plant named after us and it’s in flower right now? The more knowledgable of the gardening types around these parts have most likely known for ages, but for those who didn’t know, meet the Daphne bholua ‘Limpsfield’, a gorgeous evergreen shrub that hails from the Himalayas. Continue reading “Meet Daphne bholua ‘Limpsfield’ – our very own shrub!”
Currently Wolfe House Residential Care Home, the house on Wolf’s Row, was originally built in the 1800s, when Limpsfield appears to have been awash with auxiliary hospitals and convalescent homes! The Limpsfield Convalescent Home took in injured soldiers during WW1. The original building was destroyed in 1921 and the current one built on its site, continuing as a convalescent home until at least the 1950s.
Continue reading “Flashback Friday: Convalescent Home at Wolfe House c. 1913”
An exciting new era beckons as The Carpenters Arms comes under the same management as Botley Hill Farmhouse and the White Bear in Fickleshole Lane, near Warlingham. Continue reading “An exciting new era for The Carpenters Arms”