12 Facts About Tadworth

Tadworth is a large suburban village in Surrey, England in the south-east of the Epsom Downs, part of the North Downs.

Tadworth appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Tadeorde and Tadorne.

In 1273 John and James, sons of William Haunsard lord of North Tadworth Manor, gave a carucate of land, 2 acres of pasture, 12 acres of wood, and 20s.

Since that time North Tadworth has been held as part of the manor of Burgh in Banstead parish.

Still in 1911 topographer and historian H E Malden describes Tadworth in detail but summarises it as "Tadworth is a hamlet on the Reigate road, included now in the ecclesiastical district of Kingswood".

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Tadworth lay within the Copthorne hundred, an administrative division devised by the Saxons and later adopted by the Normans.

The Tattenham Corner Branch Line forms a deep, curved cutting running past gardens in the centre of the village as it turns to the racecourse to the north, and arrives from a tunnel immediately south of the Tadworth Roundabout preserving the gently wooded heath there.

Tadworth is roughly rectangular and is under a mile broad as it has historically been taken to include Banstead Heath to the south, on which it was placed.

Tadworth Court is a grand Grade I listed building and was built at the height of Queen Anne style architecture in the very early 18th century – namely here in 1700 for Leonard Wessels, Lord of the Manor of Banstead.

Tower House, Tower Road, Tadworth This building was constructed in 1898 and provided water from the springs of the Sutton District Water Company in Sutton.

Tadworth has a Non-League football club Banstead Athletic FC who play at Merland Rise.

Route 420 runs from Sutton through Bandstead, Tadworth following the A217 through Reigate and terminates at Whitebushes with an extension to Crawley on Sundays, while route 460 runs from Epsom through Epsom Downs, Tadworth, Reigate, Gatwick Airport and then Crawley bus station.