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{{short description|Village in Surrey, England}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}

{{infobox UK place
|country = England
|static_image_name = St Michaels Mickleham.jpg
|static_image_caption = St Michael's Church
|coordinates = {{coord|51.268|-0.321|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Mickleham
|map_type= Surrey
|label_position=left
| population = 585
|population_ref=(Civil Parish 2011)<ref name=ons>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |date=11 February 2003 }} [[United Kingdom Census 2011]] ''[[Office for National Statistics]]'' Retrieved 21 November 2013</ref>
|area_total_km2=7.31
|civil_parish='''Mickleham'''
|shire_district= [[Mole Valley]]
|shire_county = [[Surrey]]
|region= South East England
|constituency_westminster= [[Dorking and Horley (UK Parliament constituency)|Dorking and Horley]]
|post_town= Dorking
|postcode_district = RH5
|postcode_area= RH
|dial_code= 01372 or 01306
|os_grid_reference= TQ171534
}}
'''Mickleham''' is a village in [[South East England|south east England]], between the towns of [[Dorking]] and [[Leatherhead]] in [[Surrey]]. The [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] covers {{convert|7.31|km2|acre}} and includes the hamlet of Fredley.<ref>[http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspublications.nsf/591f7dda55aad72a80256c670041a50d/5704c50aaae44f6580256e350052f5c1/$FILE/Mole%20Valley%20parishes.pdf Surrey Council census] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031545/http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspublications.nsf/591f7dda55aad72a80256c670041a50d/5704c50aaae44f6580256e350052f5c1/$FILE/Mole%20Valley%20parishes.pdf |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> The larger [[parish|ecclesiastical parish]] includes the majority of the neighbouring village of [[Westhumble]],<ref name=Mickleham_PC>{{cite web |url= http://www.micklehampc.org.uk/community/mickleham-parish-council-7875/home/ |title= Home |author=  |website= Mickleham Parish Council |access-date= 14 October 2020 |archive-date= 16 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201016101327/http://www.micklehampc.org.uk/community/mickleham-parish-council-7875/home/ |url-status= live }}</ref> from which Mickleham is separated by the [[River Mole]].

==History==
Mickleham lies near to the old Roman road known as [[Stane Street (Chichester)|Stane Street]], which ran from London to [[Chichester]]. It acquired its Old English based name in [[Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon times]], when it was a small settlement lying within the [[Copthorne (hundred)|Copthorne]] [[hundred (division)|hundred]].

Mickleham appears in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Michelham'' and ''Micleham''. It was partly held by Nigel from the [[Bishop of Bayeux]] and partly by Oswald from (under) [[Richard de Tonbridge]]. Its Domesday assets were: 7 [[hide (unit)|hide]]s; 1 church, 7 [[plough]]s, {{convert|3|acre|m2}} of [[meadow]], [[woodland]] worth 4 [[hog (swine)|hog]]s. It rendered £10 per year [[feudal system|to its overlords]].<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm Surrey Domesday Book] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715015325/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |date=15 July 2007 }}</ref>

Nearby Mickleham Downs was the venue for a [[single wicket cricket]] match in June 1730. The game was between two teams of three and played for a stake of [[Pound sign|£50]]. The teams, [[Surrey county cricket teams|Surrey]] and [[Sussex county cricket teams|Sussex]], were described in a contemporary newspaper report as "esteemed the best in the respective counties" but it does not name the players.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buckley |first=G. B. |author-link=G. B. Buckley |title=Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket |year=1935 |publisher=Cotterell |location=Birmingham |page=4 }}</ref> This is the first and only reference to Mickleham in association with cricket of a senior level.

Mickleham is mentioned in [[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Emma (novel)|Emma]]'' (1815).

The philosopher and amateur botanist [[John Stuart Mill]] protested against the building of a railway though the "beautiful valley of Mickleham" in 1836,<ref>Dictionary of National Biography. Vol XIII, 1903, Smith and Elder. Leslie Stephen</ref> while [[1852 Grand National]] winner, Miss Mowbray was prepared for the race in the Village by trainer, George Dockeray. The village has featured in cycling, following the loops of Box Hill adopted by various versions of the [[London-Surrey Cycle Classic]] which was an annual event for a few years after its use in the [[2012 Summer Olympics]].

==Amenities==

===Places of worship===
[[File:Lychgate, Mickleham - geograph.org.uk - 251173.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|right|St Michael's Church and [[lychgate]], viewed from the south west.]]
{{main|list of places of worship in Mole Valley}}

The main place of worship is St. Michael's Church, surrounded by [[St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham|St Michael's Churchyard]]. The church (in full the "Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Mickleham") has a Norman west tower and a Norman chancel arch, raised in the 1871 restoration by [[Ewan Christian]], who added neo-Norman aisles and east end. The Norbury chapel on the north side is late Perpendicular, with chequerboard flint and [[clunch]] walling.<ref>Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England – Surrey, 1962</ref> The majority of the stained glass windows are by [[Clayton and Bell]] with others by [[Percy Bacon Brothers|Percy Bacon Bros]], [[Morris & Co.|Morris & Sons]] and a modern window by Alfred Fisher (2015).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=30658|title=Stained Glass Windows at St. Michael|website=Church Stained Glass Windows|access-date=21 March 2019|archive-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123105300/https://www.stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=30658|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Community facilities and commerce===
The village has a Village Hall, two [[pub]]s (The Running Horses and The King William IV) and a restaurant (51 Degrees North).

===Schools===
[[File:Box Hill School - geograph.org.uk - 1393906.jpg|thumb|right|[[Box Hill School]] - Dalewood House in Mickleham village, now a boarding school. It follows [[Kurt Hahn]]'s educational principles.]]
In the village are [[Box Hill School]], an independent secondary school, St Michael's Infant C of E (Aided) School and St Michael's Community Nursery.

===Transport===
;Roads
The [[A24 road (Great Britain)|A24]] bypasses Mickleham with a dual-carriageway bypass.

;Railway
[[Box Hill & Westhumble railway station|Box Hill & Westhumble station]], located across the A24, and towards [[Westhumble]], provides a link to London and Horsham.<ref name=Mickleham_PC/>
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;Buses
The 465 bus route runs every hour or half-hour (except nights) between Kingston upon Thames and Dorking, via Mickleham village.<ref name=Mickleham_PC/>

==Localities==

===Fredley===
The [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] and former [[Manorialism|manor]] of Fredley is approximately 300m south of the centre of Mickleham. [[Juniper Hall]], run by the [[Field Studies Council]] is located there.

[[James Clavell]], the Australian novelist and screenwriter, lived at Fredley Manor between 1970 and 1990.<ref>{{cite news |last= Churchill |first= Penny |date= 9 March 2017 |title= For Your Eyes Only: The Surrey manor where James Clavell hosted 007 (and JR Ewing) |url= https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/fredley-manor-eyes-surrey-country-manor-hosted-007-151570 |work= Country Life |location= Farnborough, Hampshire |access-date= 21 September 2020 |archive-date= 30 September 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200930000322/https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/fredley-manor-eyes-surrey-country-manor-hosted-007-151570 |url-status= live }}</ref>

===Mickleham Downs===
The hillside to the east of the village, known as Mickleham Downs, was donated to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] in January 1939 by [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Lord Beaverbrook]], the proprietor of the [[Daily Express]] newspaper, who had recently purchased the [[Cherkley Court]] estate.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= Mickleham Downs |date= 6 January 1939 |page= 12 |issue=48196 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title= Mickleham Downs: Gift To The National Trust |date= 6 January 1939 |page= 16 |issue=48196 }}</ref>

===Norbury Park===
Across the Mole and the A24 is [[Norbury Park]]. In this is the 'Druids Grove' which is an area of mature [[taxus|Yew tree]]s.

===The Burford Bridge and the zig-zag road===
Here is the hotel that was frequented by [[Lord Nelson]], 150m north of which starts the Zig-Zag road, one of the two local roads for motor vehicles climbing [[Box Hill, Surrey|Box Hill]].

== Landmarks ==
{{main|North Downs|River Mole, Surrey|Box Hill, Surrey}}
The surrounding area contains many Sites of Special Scientific Interest ([[SSSI]]) including the Mickleham Downs and panoramic beauty spot of [[Box Hill, Surrey|Box Hill]].

The [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]] flows nearby. As its name suggests, the river in places goes underground due to the chalk bed being dissolved, forming swallow holes ([[sinkhole]]s). Ian Middleton tells of his father, sometime in the 1950s, the village police officer P.C. Middleton, looking past his bathroom mirror one morning whilst shaving to see a mature oak tree disappear into the ground.<ref>{{cite news |title= Oak tree disappears |date= 10 February 1940 |work= Surrey Advertiser and County Times |volume= CXLII |issue= 10259 |page= 5}}</ref> It turned out that the river flowing underground had been gradually wearing away the supporting ground under the tree, forming a giant such hole which had collapsed.<ref>{{cite news |title= The strange secret of the River Mole |date= 10 July 1964 |work= Surrey Mirror and County Post |issue= 4581 |page= 21 }}</ref> The subsequent pit was not filled in until about 1968 approx, when it was still 30 ft deep and 30 ft across.

==Notable residents==
* Sir [[Carl Aarvold]] (1907–1991), Recorder of London (senior judge at the Old Bailey), who tried the [[Kray twins]], and who played rugby for England and the British Lions 1928–1933, lived in Westhumble.
* [[Maurice Allom]] (1906–1995) England Test cricketer 1930–31, lived at Eastfield Cottage.
*[[Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett]], [[Prime Minister]] of Canada from 1930 to 1935, retired here after his life in politics. He is buried in St Michael's Churchyard, the only former Prime Minister of Canada not buried in that country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/clmhc-hsmbc/Sepulture-gravesiteindx/listesepulture-listgravesite/bennett.aspx|title=Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada – Former Prime Ministers and Their Grave Sites – The Right Honourable Richard Bedford Bennett|author=|date=20 December 2010|website=Parks Canada|publisher=Government of Canada|access-date=27 February 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022111712/http://www.pc.gc.ca/clmhc-hsmbc/Sepulture-gravesiteindx/listesepulture-listgravesite/bennett.aspx|archive-date=22 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*[[Maria Kinnaird|Mrs. Maria Drummond]] lived at Fredley and was buried here.
* Sir [[Stuart Etherington]] (b. 1955), leading charity executive and former social worker, was brought up in the village.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lynch|first1=Andrew|title=Leading edge: Sir Stuart Etherington|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/Appointments/article1196867.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012162325/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/Appointments/article1196867.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 October 2013|issue=9828|page=4|access-date=6 February 2016|work=The Sunday Times|date=20 January 2013}}</ref>
* Detective story writer [[Cyril Hare]] was born in Mickleham Hall in 1900 and died at [[Westhumble]] in the parish in 1958; he is buried in the churchyard. So is his wife's grandfather, [[Sir Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baronet|Sir Trevor Lawrence]], who had famous orchid houses at Burford Lodge in the parish.
* Sir [[George Lloyd-Jacob]] (1897–1969), British High Court judge.
*[[Sir John Norton-Griffiths, 1st Baronet]], "Empire Jack", the driving force behind the [[Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers]] in WW I, was buried at Mickleham Church on 18 October 1930.
*[[Richard Sharp (politician)|Richard "Conversation" Sharp]] (1759-1835), politician, had a country retreat at Fredley Farm and entertained many leading figures of the day there.<ref>Knapman, D. – ''Conversation Sharp – The Biography of a London Gentleman, Richard Sharp (1759–1835), in Letters, Prose and Verse''. Chapter 9 (2004).</ref>
*[[William Wingfield (MP for Bodmin)|William Wingfield]] MP, was born here.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boase|first=George Clement |authorlink = George Clement Boase|author2=William Prideaux Courtney |title=Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and Printed, of Cornishmen, and of Works Relating to the County of Cornwall, with Biographical Memoranda and Copious Literary References|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer|year=1878|edition=Digitized 5 Sep 2007|volume=2|pages=895|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ScEMAAAAYAAJ&q=William-Wriothesley-Digby&pg=PA895}}</ref>

==Demography and housing==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|+ '''2011 Census Homes'''
|-
!Output area !!Detached !!Semi-detached!!Terraced!!Flats and apartments!!Caravans/temporary/mobile homes!!shared between households<ref name=ons/>
|-
|(Civil Parish)||74 || 51 || 15 || 35 || 0 || 0
|}
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|+ '''2011 Census Key Statistics'''
|-
!Output area !!Population !!Households !!% Owned outright !!% Owned with a loan!!hectares<ref name=ons/>
|-
|(Civil Parish)||585||175 ||27.4% ||24.6%||731
|}
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).

==See also==
* [[HMS Mickleham|HMS ''Mickleham'']], a [[Ham class minesweeper|''Ham'' class minesweeper]]; the village gave its name to this.

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Mickleham, Surrey}}
* [http://www.leatherheadweb.org.uk/mickleham/ Parish of Mickleham]
* [http://www.micklehamchoral.org.uk/ Mickleham Choral Society]

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