More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting.
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Details of Abinger Lower and Upper school inspection, there are complaints that infant school children have to ‘learn in a very cold room’.
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Surrey Union Hunt Foxhounds met at Abinger Hatch on 29 Oct 1889. The hunt still exists today, based at Okewood Hill, Dorking.
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The parishioners stance against the Abinger Glebe land sale is reinforced, stating ‘non-parishioners’ support it.
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Burglar of Abinger Hatch Public House last month was sentenced to 15 months hard labour.
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The football season begins.
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Report that the proposed amalgamation of Dorking and Redhill County Courts will not take place.
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Mr Bray, Lord of the Manor gifts to Shere its first recreational land, which was christened by Shere Football Club.
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Exerts from Mr William Bray’s (1736 – 1832, ‘The historian of Surrey’) diaries. It details Jean Jacques Rousseau’s stay at Abinger in 1766. Rousseau reportedly encountered a clergyman who he belied as a Government emissary in disguise, commissioned to watch and persecute him in his exile.
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Description of Bonfire night history.