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I recently published my first work of local history and am currently working on my second, a history of early Medieval Dorking.

Mr Finlay's Cottages: the Making of Myrtle Road

ISBN 978-0-9573539-0-9

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Myrtle Road, Dorking was laid out in 1911.  Most of the houses were commissioned two years later by one man: a retired clergyman caled William Russell Finlay.  Why did he feel driven to build cottages in Edwardian Dorking?  Was it a response to local need or the national housing crisis?

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