The names of Britain’s villages and towns often refer to people or administrative activities, but Redhill has a rather different story.Redhill as we think of it today was one of Surrey’s ‘new’ towns alongside Woking during the industrial expansion of the early nineteenth century and historians celebrated 1994 as its 150th anniversary.To establish the origin of the town’s name, though, you need to go much further back.READ MORE: 15 pubs in Surrey which are next to a pond, lake or riverThe…
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