Nutfield, Surrey

Nutfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. It lies in the Weald immediately south of the Greensand Ridge and has a railway station at South Nutfield which is one stop from Redhill, on the Redhill to Tonbridge Line. It includes a watersports park, Mercer's Park Country Park.

Nutfield
Village

St Peter and St Paul's Church
Nutfield
Location within Surrey
Area9.81 km2 (3.79 sq mi)
Population2,673 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density272/km2 (700/sq mi)
• London18 miles (29 km)
Civil parish
  • Nutfield
District
  • Tandridge
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townREDHILL
Postcode districtRH1
Dialling code01737
PoliceSurrey
FireSurrey
AmbulanceSouth East Coast

History

The village lay within the Reigate hundred.

Nutfield appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Notfelle. It was held by Countess Ida of Boulogne (2nd wife of Count Eustace). Its domesday assets were: 3 hides; 1 church, 16 ploughs, 1 mill worth 2s, 10 acres (40,000 m2) of meadow, herbage worth 12 hogs. It rendered £15 per year to its feudal overlords.[2]

At the end of the 12th century, Nutfield was held by Hubert de Anstey and his wife Dionysia, then in 1210 it passed to his son and heir Nicholas de Anstey.[3]

The Grade II* listed St Peter and St Paul's church was built in the 13th century. The tower dates from the early 15th century but was partly rebuilt in the late 18th century.[4] There are two stained glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones.[5]

The Grade II listed Nutfield Priory is to the west of the village centre, constructed by John Gibson between 1872-4.[6]

Geography

Nutfield Marsh is a community located to the north of the historic east-west route the A25 where the village centre is.

The village centre is also a quite small community, featuring the area of Nutfield Court and its conservation area; it is outsized by the largest part of the community South Nutfield next to the nearest station, Nutfield railway station.

Governance

There is one representative on Surrey County Council, conservative Tony Elias whose physically large ward is called Godstone.[7]

There are three representatives on Tandridge District Council:

Member SinceMember[8]

Ward

2007 Gill BlackBletchingley & Nutfield
2006 Tony Edouard EliasBletchingley & Nutfield
1998 Marian Eva Patricia MylandBletchingley & Nutfield

The parish council has 8 members.[9]

The parish council was set up in 1894 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1894. The council's work ranges from planning applications, allotments, cemetery, meeting and cultural venues, overgrown footpaths to dog fouling. The Metropolitan Green Belt has been used to retain the largely agricultural green belt around the village of Nutfield.

Transport

At just over a mile, an undulating walk away, is Nutfield railway station in South Nutfield.

The A23 has road junctions to the village in Redhill and Salfords to the west, each 2 miles (3.2 km) away.

Amenities

Within the bounds of Nutfield is the Aqua Sports Company's Mercers Park country park.

Famous Inhabitants
  • Maria Louisa Charlesworth, popular author of religious books for children in the 1800s, lived at Church Hill House, Nutfield, and at The Cottage, where she died in 1861. She was buried at St Peter & St Paul's Church.
  • Michael Maw (1912–1944), cricketer and Royal Air Force airman

Demography and housing
2011 Census Homes
Output areaDetachedSemi-detachedTerracedFlats and apartmentsCaravans/temporary/mobile homesshared between households[1]
(Civil Parish)37130525414710

The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.

2011 Census Key Statistics
Output areaPopulationHouseholds% Owned outright% Owned with a loanhectares[1]
(Civil Parish)2,6731,07835.5%41.2%981

The proportion of households in the civil parish 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).

Nearest settlements

See also
  • List of places of worship in Tandridge (district)

References
  1. Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
  2. Surrey Domesday Book Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Anstey, G.M. and T.J. (2017). ANSTEY: Our True Surname Origin and Shared Medieval Ancestry. p. 126.
  4. "History". Nutfield Parish Church. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  5. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1377573)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  6. Historic England. "Nutfield Priory, Nutfield (1400998)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  7. "List of Surrey CC Councillors". Surrey County Council. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  8. "Council Members". Tandridge District Council. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  9. "Parish Council Members". Nutfield Parish Council. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
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