If you want to understand Surrey, look at the house names. Keepers’ Copse, Meadow View, Weavers, Highfields…
What do all these names have in common? They describe something rural that used to be there before it was destroyed to make way for the house named after it.
Surrey is where London will one day join Guildford and Woking, making the outer banlieues of our capital city very nice indeed, but obviously destroying the countryside that makes Surrey nice in the process.
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