Coldharbour, Surrey

Coldharbour
Village
Coldharbour
Coldharbour Location within Surrey
District	Mole Valley
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
List of places UK England Surrey 51°11′07″N0°21′21″W / 51.18528°N 0.35583°W / 51.18528; -0.35583

Coldharbour is a village in the Mole Valley district, in the English county of Surrey. It is on a minor road from Dorking to Leith Hill Place. It is in the Surrey Hills AONB and is the highest village in the south-east of England. ^[1]

Description

It has a church ^[1] and a pub, the Plough Inn. ^[2] Nearby is Broome Hall House, built around 1830 for the politician and printer Andrew Spottiswoode and later owned in the 1970s by legendary actor, Oliver Reed.

Notable residents

• Virginia McKenna (born 1931), actress ^[3]
• Karl Pearson (1857–1936), statistician, died in Coldharbour
• Oliver Reed (1938–1999), owner of Broome Hall from 1971–1979 ^[4]
• Chris Lulham (born 2003), racing driver

References

1. A church near you
2. Geograph
3. Surrey Life
4. "1977: OLIVER REED at home in BROOME HALL | Nationwide | Classic Celebrity Interview | BBC Archive". YouTube . 11 June 2022.

External links

• Exploring Surrey's past
• Francis Frith
• A Vision of Britain