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'<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Abinger.jpg|right|The Clock at Abinger Hammer.]] --> {{infobox UK place |country = England |official_name=Abinger Hammer |map_type= Surrey |coordinates = {{coord|51.2166|-0.432853|display=inline,title}} |static_image=[[Image:abingerPO.jpg|250px|]] |static_image_caption=Abinger Hammer general store |os_grid_reference=TQ095475 |shire_district=[[Mole Valley]] |shire_county = [[Surrey]] |region= South East England |constituency_westminster=[[Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Mole Valley]] |post_town=[[Dorking]] |postcode_district=RH5 |postcode_area=RH |dial_code=01306 }} '''Abinger Hammer''' is a village situated on the [[A25 road|A25]] between [[Dorking]] and [[Guildford]] in [[Surrey]], England. == Geography == Abinger Hammer lies within the parish of [[Abinger]] which includes [[Abinger Common]] and [[Sutton Abinger]]. Other neighbouring villages are [[Wotton, Surrey|Wotton]] and [[Gomshall]]. The [[River Tillingbourne]] flows through the village. Brown trout swim in the stream, which is their natural habitat; the occasional larger [[rainbow trout]] can be sighted. These may have escaped from the fish farm further downstream towards Gomshall. == History == [[Image:abingersign.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Abinger Hammer was a focus for [[forge]]s]] [[Image:abingerclock.jpg|150px|thumb|upright|Abinger Hammer Clock]] The Tillingbourne was impounded in the 16th century into a hammer pond, providing water power for Abinger Hammer Mill, also called Abinger Forge, the Hammer forge or Shere forge, which worked Sussex-sourced iron.<ref>Pearce, H, ''Hammer and Furnace Ponds'', Pomegranate Press, 2011</ref> It has long since been adapted to grow watercress.<ref>http://www.hammerpond.org.uk/Gazetteer/Surrey/surrey.htm</ref><ref name=AHM>[http://www.tillingbournetales.co.uk/places/mills/abinger-hammer-mill/ ''Abinger Hammer Mill''] at www.tillingbournetales.co.uk. Retrieved 30 Apr 2017.</ref> The hammer mill boomed during the 16th century and the forge was reputed to have even made guns for use against the [[Spanish Armada]]. The waters of the Tillingbourne powered the water wheel which drove the massive, 400 kg, [[trip hammer]] of the forge. The forge closed in 1787 despite attempts to save or convert it.<ref name=AHM/> The clock which overhangs the main road portrays the figure of "Jack the Blacksmith", who strikes the hour with his hammer. The clock bears the motto "By me you know how fast to go". The clock was given in memory of the first Lord Farrer of Abinger Hall who died in 1899. The clock represents the iron industry and the role played by the county of Surrey in the industrial past.<ref>[http://www.ukattraction.com/south-east-england/abinger-hammer-village-clock.htm UK attractions] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231022529/http://www.ukattraction.com/south-east-england/abinger-hammer-village-clock.htm |date=December 31, 2006 }} retrieved 6-1-07</ref> == Sights == [[Image:Womensbikerace2012.JPG|150px|thumb|upright|The 2012 Women's Olympic Cycle Race passing through Abinger Hammer on its way to Box Hill]] In summer the village green in Abinger is popular with locals and tourists who like to picnic on the grass whilst watching a game of [[cricket]] in surroundings which are quintessentially English. The cricket pitch borders the Tillingbourne - the Post Office sells nets for children to "fish" in this shallow and sandy stream. Annie's tearoom is next to the Post Office and offers lunches and teas seven days a week. == Education == Abinger Hammer village school was a state school but after the LEA closed it in 1982, the local community took over the running of it. As of 2008 the school had only sixteen students. A small group of trustees worked to raise funds to maintain the building and to pay the staff. The number of students has since reduced until the school was forced to close in July 2009.<ref>[http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/general.xhtml?urn=125430 Department for Education website] retrieved 25-2-15</ref> == Nature == [[Oxmoor Copse]], an [[AONB|Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]] lies to the south of the village. == People == During the years 1925 to 1945, the novelist [[E. M. Forster]] lived with his mother Alice Clare (Lily) in West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer in a house designed by his father, the architect 'Eddie' Morgan, and previously occupied by his aunt Laura.<ref>[https://www.heureka.clara.net/surrey-hants/surrey-writers.htm] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024259/https://www.heureka.clara.net/surrey-hants/surrey-writers.htm |date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref> Forster was obliged to leave this home in 1946 as the landlord refused to renew the lease.<ref>Furbank, P. N. ''E. M. Forster, A Life.'' vol 2. London: Secker and Warburg, 1978.</ref> [[Edward Wilkins Waite]] (1854–1924), landscape painter, lived for a time at Abinger Hammer. He was born in [[Leatherhead]], Surrey, and much of his work depicted rural scenes in the county - including at least one painting done in the vicinity of the village (see "[[commons:File:Edward Wilkins Waite03.jpg|Old Willows]]"). [[ David Nobbs]] gave Abinger Hammer as the location of Uncle Percy Spillinger, played by late actor[[ Tony Sympson]], in Episode 4, Series 1 of ' [[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category inline|Abinger Hammer}} {{Mole Valley}} [[Category:Mole Valley]] [[Category:Villages in Surrey]]'