Leatherhead Area Guide
A locals' guide to Leatherhead
Where do Leatherhead locals go?
Why not explore the nearby areas of
leatherhead,
fetcham,
oxshott,
Epsom,
cobham,
chessington,
ewell east,
dorking,
ewell,
and the horsleys
Did you know?
"The fishing around Leatherhead is so good, then when playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan rented a farm nearby to pen his latest masterpiece, he did not write a single word...for the whole 15 months!"
Box Hill is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on London's doorstep.
Greg Nickson
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What locals say about Leatherhead
“Compared to North London, it's really quiet, the people around here are nice and calm, I work locally and my mum is really satisfied with the area now she's an old lady.”
S. Amin
Activities near Leatherhead
Come And Sing Day; With Eamonn Dougan
Join renowned choral conductor Eamonn Dougan (Associate Conductor, The Sixteen), for a workshop day exploring some beloved choral repertoire.Read more
Born to Perform!
A show full of singing and dancing. Performed by: Thursday Street Dance Students Private Singing Students Saturday Contemporary Dance StudentsRead more
Chessington World of Adventures
Consone Quartet
They play with perfect intonation, tremendous attack, and impeccable historical style. All the four instruments work together with such intelligence and imagination that I would happily listen to them every day. - Sir Roger Norrington The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of repertoire, notably from the classical and romantic eras. Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the Consone Quartet launched their professional career in 2015, shortly after which they were awarded two prizes at the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, including the EUBO Development Trust Prize and a place on the EEEmerging Scheme in France. They went on to win the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize, and in 2022 were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) fellowship. The quartet has been enthusiastically received at Londons major venues, as well as further afield in Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Festival invitations include Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Dartington, Two Moors, Buxton, MA Festival in Bruges, Heidelberger Streichquartettfest, and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. In 2024 the quartet returned to the English Haydn Festival and the York Early Music Festival, both of which are loyal supporters and regularly host the group. Consone are Artists-in-Residence at Paxton House (2023-2025) and at Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington (2024-2027). Following tours of South America (2018) and Canada (2023) the quartet will return to North America in 2025 to perform both alone and in collaboration with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. 2023 saw the Consone Quartet premiere a new work for string sextet by Gavin Bryars, commissioned by friends of the Quartet, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and BBC Radio 3. The work, entitled The Bridges of Knigsberg, was broadcast on Radio 3 from St Martin-in-the-Fields in October 2023. They will further their exploration of contemporary music with the premiere of a new work for string quartet by Oliver Leith in summer 2025. Education work remains a core interest to the group, having worked with students at the Royal College of Music in London, Chethams School of Music in Manchester, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Hans Keller fellows for 2020-2022. 2024 sees the beginning of a new partnership with the Frost Trust as Visiting Quartet at Sheffields Music in the Round. The quartets debut recording explored music by Haydn and Mendelssohn and was described by The Strad as an album that instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special. In Spring 2023 they released the first CD in a complete cycle of Mendelssohns string quartets with Linn Records. The album, featuring both the 1823 and Op. 44 No. 3 quartets, has been described as top-notch (Allmusic) and exquisite (Pizzicato).Read more
Easter adventures at Polesden Lacey
Polesden Lacey has verdant views across the rolling Surrey Hills and gardens filled with daffodils: the perfect place for an Easter adventure. Help Grizwald the Griffin enjoy Easter with his friends on an Easter trail. Make your way along the trail and find 10 activities for the whole family. Don't forget to collect your prize at the end!Read more
Race Meeting
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Plaza Suite'by Neil Simon
Plaza Suite' by Neil Simon Hilarity abounds in this portrait of couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as Mother yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!" This play was a smash hit in the West End in 2024 starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. This production staging two Acts is directed by William McKeeRead more
About Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in the County of Surrey, on the River Mole, part of Mole Valley district. It is thought to be of Saxon origin. Located in the centre of the county of Surrey and at a junction of ancient north–south and east–west communications, the town has been a focus for transport throughout its history. Initially there was the construction of the bridge over the River Mole in the early medieval period. Later the Swan Hotel provided 300 years of service to horse-drawn coaches. In the late 20th century the M25 motorway was built nearby.
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