The village is 7 miles south of Croydon. It is served by the Caterham Valley line of the South-Eastern railway, which leaves Purley, formerly Caterham Junction, and runs up the bottom of the Caterham Valley to a terminus at Caterham. Warlingham station is just in Caterham, and the London, Brighton and South Coast railway at Upper Warlingham is also largely used by Caterham residents. The parish is on the Chalk downs, but they are in great part capped by clay and gravel.
The bottom of the Caterham Valley contains alluvial gravel, and was once the bed of a stream, the head waters of the Wandle, which ran down into the Smitham Valley bottom, and so to Croydon. A winter bourne still breaks out intermittently in the neighbourhood of Caterham.
In and water ran down on the surface from the top of the valley to the Wandle near Croydon; but the extensive waterworks of the East Surrey Water Company and of the Henley Water Company, amalgamated with it, have made this bourne less frequent and less copious in its flow. The fortification upon White Hill, described under Blechingley, is partly in Caterham. Many neolithic flakes and some implements have been found. Stanested Heath, or Stanestreet Heath called in deeds Stane Street or Stoney Street, see Chaldon , and the old inn the 'Harrow' upon it, suggest the continuation of, or more probably a branch from the Roman road which ran north and south through Godstone.
The reputed Pilgrims' Way crosses the line of this road. The old village lies at the head of the valley, high up the hill, and the high ground rising still further south of it reaches ft.
White Hill Tower was built on this high ground by Mr. Jeremiah Long in The old church of St. Lawrence is ft. It is now only used for the purposes of a Sunday school, a new parish church of St. Mary having been built opposite to it. The manor-house stands to the south-west of the old church; it is a brick building dating from the 18th century.
The whole of the valley and the slopes on either side are now full of houses of various sizes, from small estates to cottages. Only south of the old village, on the highest part of the chalk, further from the railway, the parish is distinctly rural still.
The commons were inclosed by an award of 13 June Caterham is ruled by an urban district council of fifteen members, and is divided into five wards. Public offices with a memorial hall in memory of the late Mr. Garland are now in course of erection. Within the parish is the Guards' Depot; the barracks were built in and enlarged in to hold 1, men. In the old village is a Soldiers' Home, built by Mr. John Newbery in Inside the barrack-yard is a chapel in 13th-century style, with an aisle for Roman Catholic soldiers.
Not far from the barracks on the high ground is the Metropolitan Asylum for Imbeciles, built in It consists of thirteen houses and a chapel, with a detached house for infectious illnesses. It holds nearly 2, persons. Caterham County Council school was built in and enlarged in and In 'an English School' was included in a return made to Bishop Willis.
A parish school was opened in , called 'a School for the Improvement of Children,' and its buildings were enlarged in and It was superseded by the Board school of A Roman Catholic school was built in Sherbrooke is the residence of the Viscountess Sherbrooke; Essendene of Mr.
Warren; Arthur's Seat of Mr. Long Parkhouse; Greenland of Mr. Poland; St. Bernards of Sir G. Marks, M. Coles, and Shortfurrows of Mr. In the Stanstead Road is Oakhyrst, the residence of Mr. Welstead, also Woodlands of Mr. Lloyd, Broomfield of Mrs. Winter, Stanstead of Mr.
Groom, and Stone House of Mrs. Blacket Gill. Caterham Valley or Lower Caterham is, as the name implies, that part of the parish which lies in and on either side of the valley, for the most part north-east of the old village.
It is divided into two ecclesiastical districts, which together have a larger population than the rest of the old parish. There are several large modern houses here. Shirley Goss is the seat of Major-Gen. Sibley; Harestone of Mrs. Soper; Beechlands of Mr. The public hall was built in , and the cottage hospital in by Mr.
Charles Braine. The latter was enlarged in The Congregational school for the sons of ministers, founded at Lewisham in , was removed to the Caterham Valley in , and is now recognized as a secondary school for boys. The buildings, which will hold boys, are of red brick with stone dressings, gabled.
The Caterham Valley County Council school was built by the School Board in for children, with an average attendance in of We promise that we will never, ever pass your details to anyone else or overwhelm you with emails — we send one a month, occasionally two unless we have something really amazing that we think you will want to know about straightaway!
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