Wellingtonia 28

Following the excursion reported at reference 2, we thought we ought to go and take a look at the dog house, otherwise Woodcote House. We were pleased to find that there was a fine stand of Wellingtonia in their front garden, looking very tall and thin.

We were now in Chantry Hurst, a private road off Street View, very much in the centre of one of the grandest, if not the grandest, housing estate in Epsom. Not a shop or a public house to be seen anywhere. But there was quite a lot of black and white work, what passed for faintly Tudor in the first half of the last century.

While this large house, near the bottom of Pine Hill, was in a rather different style and rather run down. We learned that was much upset in the area about the proposal to knock it down and replace it with a cluster of 'desirable executive houses in this most sought after part of Epsom'. Rather a pity in a way, as it was rather a handsome house, even if we could never have aspired to buy it, never mind find the money needed to bring it up to scratch.

While at the very bottom of the hill, not only was there a yew tree of quite respectable size (left in the snap above), but also a relic of late 19th or early 20th century estate iron work, in the form of an old gate. How did it escape being tidied up by whoever it was that developed the estate? The sort of thing you come across in the Isle of Wight from time to time. Or indeed on hunts for old moats in Epsom, as noticed at reference 3.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/03/wellingtonia-27.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-woodcote.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-hunt-for-old-moat.html.

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