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By the 19th century six grain mills stood on the river: Rookery, Westcott, Milton Court, Parsonage, Pippbrook and Pixham Mills. All were defunct by the mid-20th century when bread production was widely commercialised and the product nationally was transformed to slow its staleness. Pippbrook Mill and
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The Pipp Brook itself has no sewage treatment works, few plains which it drains and as such an extremely narrow and low risk area of riparian flooding. These factors are instead present as to a few parcels of land of east Pixham sometimes considered
Dorking by the national media based on a 2010s
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591:Dawson, Alan (1992). "The Marilyns by Height".
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594:The Relative Hills of Britain
76:Physical characteristics
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1670:Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir
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1564:Kempton Park Racecourse
790:Catchment Data Explorer
762:Catchment Data Explorer
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659:Civil Parish of Wotton
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775:. © Crown copyright.
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1624:Winkworth Arboretum
1619:Virginia Water Lake
1377:River Tillingbourne
1217:Long-distance paths
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1468:River Ember
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1042:Gibbet Hill
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1719:Categories
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1554:Hedgecourt
1483:Pipp Brook
1463:River Eden
1362:River Mole
1225:Downs Link
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1584:Painshill
1493:The Rythe
1478:Law Brook
1443:River Ash
1382:River Wey
1367:River Ock
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1122:Low Weald
1072:Moor Park
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576:15 April
517:Channel
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