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The
Silvermere Urn ... It was then a "Landlord's fixture" in Silvermere House, Cobham. Now (1948) the house is empty and the urn has been presented by Mr. Seth Smith to his old school and it is now in the Charterhouse School
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One urn in possession of A. Seth Smith, Esq., Silvermere, Cobham. Two not traceable. The
Silvermere Barrow lies south of the road leading from Byfleet to Cobham. It is half a mile south of the "camp" on St. George's
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bought 170 acres of land with the lake and erected a house there. He lived there for ten years until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Henry.
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was found within. During World War II, the mere was used for experiments to develop and test the
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Bouncing Bombs to Concorde: The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer George Edwards OM
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staff from
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which was one of the finest in
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with associated leisure facilities. The course opened in 1976 and is of
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made of light clay and about eighteen inches tall. They seemed to be
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of a similar antiquity to the Iron Age settlement found on nearby
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The Dam
Busters: An Operational History of Barnes Wallis' Bombs
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545:A Topographical History of Surrey
402:Surrey Archaeological Collections
383:Surrey Archaeological Collections
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570:Flower, Stephen (2013),
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909:River Bourne, Chertsey
261:were found containing
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324:were based nearby in
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348:The estate is now a
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165:Charterhouse School
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1000:Gatton Park
990:Enton Lakes
959:Wish Stream
924:River Ember
894:Abbey River
808:River Colne
795:Main rivers
468:Flower 2013
453:27 December
344:Golf course
304:During the
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259:burial urns
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85:Coordinates
1175:Categories
1089:Reservoirs
1060:Silvermere
1010:Hedgecourt
939:Pipp Brook
919:River Eden
818:River Mole
691:Silvermere
650:Brooklands
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563:1780964625
480:Dildy 2012
364:References
334:Amy Gentry
310:Seth-Smith
287:Seth Smith
180:Silvermere
95:51°20′09″N
62:Silvermere
24:Silvermere
1040:Painshill
949:The Rythe
934:Law Brook
899:River Ash
838:River Wey
823:River Ock
783:Hydrology
369:Citations
350:golf club
314:Belgravia
257:. Three
243:turf roof
235:peat turf
98:0°27′03″W
543:(1841),
506:About us
237:and the
74:Location
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944:The Rye
680:Byfleet
534:Sources
407:Museum.
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318:Vickers
1162:Canals
1158:Rivers
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239:dairy
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455:2013
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