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Dorking, town (1991 pop. 16,602), Surrey, SE England. It is a market town and residential suburb of London. Leith Hill, the highest point in SE England (965 ft/294 m), is nearby. The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872–1958, English composer, considered the outstanding composer of his generation in England. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1894 and studied composition with Parry and Stanford at the Royal College of Music, London, ..... Click the link for more information. lived in Dorking and founded the annual Leith Hill music festival. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Begbie the gardener is to go to Dorking, and own that the Sergeant has beaten him at last. Aurelia could have understood the feeling of a narrow-minded and conventional hen who has brought a strange, intrepid duckling into the world; but her situation was still more wonderful, for she could only compare her sensations to those of some quiet brown Dorking who has brooded an ordinary egg and hatched a bird of paradise. Let my accents swell to Mickleham on one side, and Dorking on the other. |
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