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35-595: Before about 1912, there was an equally-used alternative spelling, Ockshot . Oxshott was part of Stoke D'Abernon parish until 1912, when Oxshott gained its first place of worship. The Prince's Coverts remains part of the Crown Estate , albeit decreased by some privatisation; and the public land of the village has been protected by inclusion in the Metropolitan Green Belt . A great many of Oxshott's residential areas are on gated private roads . This, combined with

70-509: A bridleway across Arbrook Common and Farm which has two white-painted metal coal tax posts . The Claremont Estate was purchased for him in 1816. He later acquired nearby common land which became a shooting estate. This area became known as Prince's Coverts. Following his death, the estate was repurchased by the Crown since which it has been managed by the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate publish

105-559: A leaflet with a detailed map. The Crown Estate leaflet mentioned below was scanned in 2008, when the Coverts were fenced in, requiring a key for access, but since 2014, access for walkers no longer requires a key and signs indicate that walkers are welcome. Horse riders require a permit. There are many paths through the woodland. There is a 3.5 mile waymarked trail starting at Prince's Gate. The entrances are: Stoke D%27Abernon Stoke d'Abernon ( / ˈ d æ b ə n ə n / )

140-438: A train travelling from Guildford to London Waterloo . Of the 40 people on board the train, four were injured. The lorry driver of the lorry was badly injured, and also apparently had a heart attack and had to be carefully taken out of the cab by the medical services. Rail and road had been cleared and re-opened by early the following Monday. Oxshott has one, Anglican , church, St. Andrew's. Oxshott has its own primary school,

175-482: Is Saxon with Norman and Victorian additions, and is famous for its monumental brasses , among them the oldest in the country. It is still active, and is Grade I listed. Since about 2006 the village has been home to the training ground of Premier League football club Chelsea . Stoke D'Abernon Cricket Club was formed in 1870 and currently plays in the Surrey Championship. Parkside Preparatory School

210-405: Is a relatively modern listed building , designed by Rowland Plumbe. The local pub-restaurant is The Old Plough which dates to the 16th century. The village has an active residents' association with a network of road representatives, but like those of neighbouring Cobham and Oxshott , and unlike similar groups in the rest of Elmbridge, it does not contest elections. The church, St Mary's ,

245-555: Is a village and former civil parish in the Elmbridge district, in Surrey, England. It is on the right bank of the River Mole contiguously south of Cobham , a larger settlement which is a post town and is east-southeast of Oxshott a large village founded in the 19th century from the higher, sandy forested part of its formerly expansive area. It shares a railway station with Cobham and

280-470: Is also a very active sports club, which has developed from the village cricket club founded in 1896, as well as a village snooker / social club. Oxshott also has two public houses: The Victoria and The Bear . The village has a large number of United States nationals and expatriates with their social organisations, due in part to the nearby ACS Cobham International school . The 2012 Summer Olympics cycling road race events passed through Oxshott. Oxshott

315-593: Is an area of 864 acres (3.50 km ; 1.350 sq mi) of managed woodland in Oxshott , Surrey , England , to which there is public access. It is owned and managed by the Crown Estate who refer to the area as Oxshott Woods . It adjoins Malden Rushett in Greater London , the Pachesham Park estate and Leatherhead Golf Course to the east. Princes Coverts is 864 acres (349 hectares ) of managed woodland owned by

350-455: Is an independent prep school at the grade II* listed manor house adjacent to the parish church of St. Mary and was founded in 1879. The Surrey County Councillor is shared with Cobham . William Marshal , who was regent of England (1217–1219) and first 'Lord Marshal', spent his honeymoon here in the summer of 1189 with his new wife, Isabelle de Clare. His descendant the Earl Marshal

385-516: Is featured in the popular Shopaholic novels by British author Sophie Kinsella , as the hometown of the series' narrator, Becky Bloomwood . A greater part of the historic novel "Unter der Asche" (Beneath the ashes) by German author Tom Finnek is set in Oxshott and nearby Cobham. The novel deals with the Great Fire of London 1665–66 and the so-called " Diggers ", a nonconformist dissenting group during

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420-666: Is inside the M25 motorway . Cobham Training Centre , the training ground of Chelsea F.C. , is within its traditional boundaries. Stoke D'Abernon appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the manor of Stoche (derived from the common Anglo-Saxon word stoc , implying a holy place). Its assets were: 2 hides , 2 virgates and 5 acres (making about 1.11 km in all); 1 church, 2 mills worth 13s, 4 ploughs , 6 oxen , 4 acres (1.6 ha) of meadow , woodland worth 40 hogs . It rendered £5 per year to its feudal system overlords. During

455-564: Is one of two hereditary peers (the other being the Lord Great Chamberlain ) not subject to an election and entitled to sit in the House of Lords , while the hundreds of other hereditary peers compete for 90 places in the chamber at the death of any of the 90. Yehudi Menuhin (whose full title was Baron Menuhin of Stoke D'Abernon in the County of Surrey) founded his music school to the south of

490-410: Is why the footbridge at the end of Sheath's Lane (this is the proper, historic spelling) can span three tracks. At Cook's Crossing (named after John Early Cook, the owner of the brickyards), the railway crossing had three lines: two for the electrified main line to Guildford via Cobham and Stoke D'Abernon and a single track to the brickyards. This latter track can still be seen if one looks hard, and

525-478: The Victoria County History . The high street expanded from what were once just three shops: a drapers, a tobacconists and a set of tea-rooms. Industry arrived in Oxshott when John Early Cook set up his brickworks from the local deep patch of suitable clay, in 1866. Production continued until 1958, and the works' distinctive chimney was demolished in 1967. Heathfield Pond is the site of the brickwork pit; it

560-606: The English Civil War . Some scenes from the Monty Python feature film Jabberwocky (1977) were filmed in Oxshott Woods. In the 1970s ITV situation comedy George and Mildred , Mildred's brother-in-law Humphrey is described as "the offal king of Oxshott". Oxshott has a high concentration of high-net-worth individuals . The village is in a convenient location, due to its good transport links to London, nearby airports, and

595-489: The M25 motorway ; there is also a variety of private schools to choose from. The proximity of the Chelsea Football Club training grounds at Stoke D'Abernon is also a factor: a number of professional footballers have settled in Oxshott for this reason. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in

630-522: The Victoria line , with local bus services also available. Oxshott railway station is just off Oxshott Heath , to the south of Oxshott Woods . Oxshott Heath, geologically, has an escarpment where the London clay and sand strata are raised substantially. For this reason, Oxshott had a brickworks from 1866 to 1958. The brickworks was served by a branch line that ran West from the station (towards Guildford ). This

665-504: The parish . In 1820, the Duchess of Kent laid the foundation stone of the national primary school here, which was enlarged in 1897. In 1885, Oxshott railway station , first named Oxshott and Fairmile , was opened on the new Guildford Line . The railway transformed Oxshott from "a hamlet of pig farmers" into a popular destination for London commuters, who occupied newly constructed mock Tudor mansions on land that had been released by

700-420: The 1970s and 80s. The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%. The proportion of households in the settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus

735-575: The 513 to/from Kingston upon Thames three times a day; and the Chatterbus to/from Cobham five times a day. On Friday 5 November 2010, at 15:40, there was an accident where the Guildford via Cobham railway line passes in a deep cutting under the Esher to Leatherhead road. A 26-tonne concrete mixer lorry crashed through the road bridge's parapet and fell about 30 feet (10 metres) onto the railway line, colliding with

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770-463: The Crown Estate. A small high street also developed to service their needs. The religious needs of the growing population were met by the consecration of St. Andrew's Church in 1912, in the Church of England . Oxshott became a parish in its own right in 1913 under that name; this putting an end to the use of the pre-1913 spelling of Ockshot, as used, for example, in 1911 in its topographical description in

805-455: The Crown Estate. It includes, separated by roads, a minor northern woodland beyond Fairoaks Lane, Great Oakes and Sixty Acre Wood , and the irregularly shaped (partly converted to other use) Woodlands Park to the south. The southernmost portion of the very long and quite narrow, almost rectangular Crown Estate has been assigned to and converted to Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People 's Training College and its Dorincourt home for

840-481: The Royal Kent, named because its predecessor was founded by the Duchess of Kent , Queen Victoria 's mother, in 1820. The original building stood on the site of the petrol station. Oxshott has an independent preparatory school, Danes Hill School, and its pre-prep school, Bevendean. A senior independent school, Reed's School , just beyond its northern boundary, caters for boys aged 11 to 18 and girls aged 16 to 18. There

875-559: The de Clare family granted the manor of Stoche to the D'Aubernoun family, who likely originated from the parish of Abernon , near Orbec . The D'Aubernoun family held it until the mid-14th century. Two descendants of Sir Roger, Sir John D'Aubernoun the Elder (died 1277) and his son Sir John the Younger (died 1327) are buried in the village; there are monumental brasses of them in St Mary's Church, with

910-596: The disabled, Woodlands Park Golf Course, Leatherhead , and Tyrwhitt House, a combat stress centre. While the south drains southward to Mole 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the training college, the north, divided by rises, contains three sources of the Rythe and drains northward. The remaining Prince's Coverts area is referred to by the Crown as Oxshott Woods . Prince's Coverts is named after Prince (later King) Leopold I of Belgium , who lived at Claremont Park, Esher 1 mile (1.6 km) north-west, which remains linked by

945-552: The large and desirable properties that form much of the village's housing stock, contributes to Oxshott's status as the "most expensive village in England". Oxshott means "Ocga's corner of land", from the Old English personal name Ocga and sceat (related to modern 'shoot') "corner of land". The first element does not, unlike Oxford , have anything to do with oxen . Oxshott was first recorded in 1179 as Occesete . At this time Oxshott

980-478: The much larger village of Cobham which starts contiguously 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the north. It has been so named since its 1885 opening. In the east, on the main road to Leatherhead , is the Woodlands Park Hotel, the top of which is tile-hung in the Surrey style. A single-storey bay has a terracotta balustrade above, and the building has a half-timbered gable end front bay. Built in 1890, it

1015-409: The old hand-operated gates were removed in the first years of the 21st century. The single track now disappears into the houses built on the brickyards on Somerville Road. Many people have signed petitions for Oxshott to have a proper bus route. The current connections in the village are: the 408 every two hours, connecting to Leatherhead, Ashtead, and Epsom in one direction, and to Cobham in the other;

1050-472: The one of Sir John the Elder believed to be the oldest in England. Until the mid-19th century, Stoke D'Abernon lay in the hundred of Elmbridge , which gave its name to the modern-day borough. Today, the village forms part of the Oxshott & Stoke D'Abernon ward of the borough. In 1951 the civil parish had a population of 2211. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished. It has a railway station, named Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon to attract custom from

1085-614: The reign of Edward the Confessor , the manor was held by his servant, Bricsi Cild. Following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror granted the manor to his kinsman, Richard fitz Gilbert , who also received the lordship of Clare . The suffix "D'Abernon" comes from the surname of another Norman nobleman, Sir Roger D'Aubernoun, who was also granted land in Surrey in return for his services to William. At some point after 1086,

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1120-445: The settlement who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). Prince%27s Coverts 51°19′59″N 0°20′02″W  /  51.333°N 0.334°W  / 51.333; -0.334 Prince's Coverts

1155-431: The village. The distinguished diplomat Edgar Vincent (1857–1941) lived within the parish in the early 20th century and was the first recipient of the D'Abernon Viscountcy and Barony . The title died with its first holder. The England Test cricketer and captain, Bob Willis , grew up in the village and learnt to play at several local village clubs, including Stoke D'Abernon cricket club, before his professional career in

1190-453: Was a hamlet in the east of the village of Stoke D'Abernon . It had a population of about 200 people living from the land, rather than trade, via forestry, farming and the keeping of pigs. Until the 16th century, Oxshott was fairly isolated from other centres of population, surrounded by heath and scrubland and connected to nearby villages only by footpaths . For almost the whole of a further three centuries, no major transport links crossed

1225-523: Was previously called Brick Pond. The pond is about 100 ft (30 metres) deep with a cottage and machinery at the bottom. From 1920 until 1978, the Oxshott Pottery , founded by Henry & Denise Wren, was based at Potters Croft in Oakshade Road, Oxshott. Oxshott is served by commuter trains, with services taking (best time) 38 minutes to Waterloo station calling at Vauxhall for interchange with

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