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Dorking

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Dorking

Town in the county of Surrey, England, in the North Downs near Box Hill; population (2001) 10,400. Dorking is now mainly a dormitory town for commuters working in London.

The recreational areas of Leith Hill, Ranmore Common, and Mickleham Down are easily accessible from Dorking. The poet and novelist George Meredith lived at the foot of Box Hill and is buried in Dorking.



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Begbie the gardener is to go to Dorking, and own that the Sergeant has beaten him at last.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Aurelia could have understood the feeling of a narrow-minded and conventional hen who has brought a strange, intrepid duckling into the world; but her situation was still more wonderful, for she could only compare her sensations to those of some quiet brown Dorking who has brooded an ordinary egg and hatched a bird of paradise.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
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