Goodwyns | |
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The Harvest Community Church on Stubs Hill | |
Location within
Surrey | |
OS grid reference | TQ170478 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Dorking |
Postcode district | RH4 |
Dialling code | 01306 |
Police | Surrey |
Fire | Surrey |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Goodwyns is a housing estate in Dorking, a market town in Surrey, England. It is on the return slope of one of two hillsides of the town and adjoins North Holmwood, a green-buffered village. [1] The town centre is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) away. [2]
The area was developed in the mid-1950s as a council estate on behalf of the former Dorking Urban District Council by the architects William Ryder & Associates. [1] The name recalls Goodwyns Place, a Grade II-listed country house to the north. This Arts and Crafts-style building was designed in 1901 by Hugh Thackeray Turner. [1] [3]
The design of the buildings and the estate's layout were praised by architectural historians Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, who described it as "unusually good" for a council estate. [1] The housing was developed in three parts: first, on the lowest lying land and arranged around culs-de-sac, groups of red-brick houses with rendered panelling; then blocks of red- and pale-brick flats of three and four storeys on the rising land, some with steel balconies and with a mixture of flat and sloping roofs; then two 14-storey concrete-faced tower blocks. [1] [2] Completed in 1965, Wenlock Edge and Linden Lea were described as "more elegant than average" because of the layout of successive projecting and recessed sections on each face. [1] The estate retains large areas of open space and has a semi-rural character, [1] [4] but there is little tree cover. The layout is approximately circular: the residential areas are bounded by two perimeter roads with other roads linking them. These streets are wide and lined with grass verges, encouraging on-street parking. [2]
In local government it is long in the Ward: Holmwoods, currently one of 21 wards in Mole Valley district. The ward's population was 6,417 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011. [5] For the ward as a whole, housing tenure statistics reveal a lower proportion of owner-occupancy than in the district overall: according to the 2011 Census, 60.2% of properties were owner-occupied against 73.6% in Mole Valley as a whole. [6] On the Goodwyns estate itself, some properties are now owner-occupied and others are rented—mostly from the Mole Valley Housing Association. [4] Formed in October 2007, this housing association is part of the Circle Housing Group and is responsible for the 3,850 synonymous with the district. [7] The association is seeking to redevelop parts of the estate, and has submitted planning applications to build 19 more flats and three houses on various underutilised sites on the estate; partly to be available under shared ownership. [7] [8]
The estate is served by the Harvest Community Church, affiliated with the Elim Pentecostal movement and the FIEC. [9] It was originally an independent Evangelical church [10] and was registered for marriages under the name Goodwyns Evangelical Free Church in July 1966. [11] Goodwyns is in the Anglican parish of North Holmwood, served by St John the Evangelist's Church. [12] St John's Church of England Community School [13] and the Dorking Rural Sure Start Children's Centre [14] are also located at Goodwyns.
Metrobus route 93 runs every hour on Mondays to Saturdays and every 2 hours on Sundays between the estate and Dorking railway station via the town centre. In the other direction, the service continues to Horsham via Capel. [15]
Goodwyns | |
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The Harvest Community Church on Stubs Hill | |
Location within
Surrey | |
OS grid reference | TQ170478 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Dorking |
Postcode district | RH4 |
Dialling code | 01306 |
Police | Surrey |
Fire | Surrey |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Goodwyns is a housing estate in Dorking, a market town in Surrey, England. It is on the return slope of one of two hillsides of the town and adjoins North Holmwood, a green-buffered village. [1] The town centre is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) away. [2]
The area was developed in the mid-1950s as a council estate on behalf of the former Dorking Urban District Council by the architects William Ryder & Associates. [1] The name recalls Goodwyns Place, a Grade II-listed country house to the north. This Arts and Crafts-style building was designed in 1901 by Hugh Thackeray Turner. [1] [3]
The design of the buildings and the estate's layout were praised by architectural historians Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, who described it as "unusually good" for a council estate. [1] The housing was developed in three parts: first, on the lowest lying land and arranged around culs-de-sac, groups of red-brick houses with rendered panelling; then blocks of red- and pale-brick flats of three and four storeys on the rising land, some with steel balconies and with a mixture of flat and sloping roofs; then two 14-storey concrete-faced tower blocks. [1] [2] Completed in 1965, Wenlock Edge and Linden Lea were described as "more elegant than average" because of the layout of successive projecting and recessed sections on each face. [1] The estate retains large areas of open space and has a semi-rural character, [1] [4] but there is little tree cover. The layout is approximately circular: the residential areas are bounded by two perimeter roads with other roads linking them. These streets are wide and lined with grass verges, encouraging on-street parking. [2]
In local government it is long in the Ward: Holmwoods, currently one of 21 wards in Mole Valley district. The ward's population was 6,417 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011. [5] For the ward as a whole, housing tenure statistics reveal a lower proportion of owner-occupancy than in the district overall: according to the 2011 Census, 60.2% of properties were owner-occupied against 73.6% in Mole Valley as a whole. [6] On the Goodwyns estate itself, some properties are now owner-occupied and others are rented—mostly from the Mole Valley Housing Association. [4] Formed in October 2007, this housing association is part of the Circle Housing Group and is responsible for the 3,850 synonymous with the district. [7] The association is seeking to redevelop parts of the estate, and has submitted planning applications to build 19 more flats and three houses on various underutilised sites on the estate; partly to be available under shared ownership. [7] [8]
The estate is served by the Harvest Community Church, affiliated with the Elim Pentecostal movement and the FIEC. [9] It was originally an independent Evangelical church [10] and was registered for marriages under the name Goodwyns Evangelical Free Church in July 1966. [11] Goodwyns is in the Anglican parish of North Holmwood, served by St John the Evangelist's Church. [12] St John's Church of England Community School [13] and the Dorking Rural Sure Start Children's Centre [14] are also located at Goodwyns.
Metrobus route 93 runs every hour on Mondays to Saturdays and every 2 hours on Sundays between the estate and Dorking railway station via the town centre. In the other direction, the service continues to Horsham via Capel. [15]