Coldharbour, Surrey

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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]

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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

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