{"id":3,"date":"2009-07-24T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-07-24T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:32:07","slug":"leatherhead-surrey-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/leatherhead-surrey-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Leatherhead Surrey History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small market town in Surrey, with a very interesting history is Leatherhead, located 4 miles south of Epsom. Though probably seeing human habitation as far back as the Neolithic Era, and certainly known to the Romans (Stane Street passes nearby), the first mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/leatherhead.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leatherhead<\/a> was in Anglo-Saxon times, appearing in King Alfred\u2019s will and being bequeathed to his son Edward. Later appearing in the Domeday Book as Leret, it was held by Osbert de Ow, and even this far back had a church. Its position on a crossroads and on a ford of the River Mole, led it to becoming a market town and Henry III granted Leatherhead the right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair. The Running Horse pub which still stands in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/leatherhead-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leatherhead<\/a> today dates from 1403 and has been mentioned in poems and writings over the centuries. The Swan Hotel was a popular coaching station beside the River Mole, it declined only after the arrival of the railway in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Leatherhead\u2019s charming old centre was mostly ruined in the 1970\u2019s and 1980\u2019s as it was developed as a pedestrianised area with little thought for the history of this charming town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/leatherhead-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">More Leatherhead History<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small market town in Surrey, with a very interesting history is Leatherhead, located 4 miles south of Epsom. Though probably seeing human habitation as far back as the Neolithic Era, and certainly known to the Romans (Stane Street passes nearby), the first mention of Leatherhead was in Anglo-Saxon times, appearing in King Alfred\u2019s will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7,3],"tags":[1081,9,1082,8,5,10,1080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}