Goodwyns

Goodwyns
Goodwyns
	The Harvest Community Church on Stubs Hill
	Goodwyns Location within Surrey
OS grid reference	TQ170478
District	Mole Valley;
Shire county	Surrey;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Dorking
Postcode district	RH4
Dialling code	01306
Police	Surrey
Fire	Surrey
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Mole Valley;
	List of places UK England Surrey 51°13′05″N 0°19′31″W / 51.2180°N 0.3252°W

Goodwyns is a housing estate in Dorking, a market town in Surrey, England. It is on the return slope of one of two hillsides of the town and adjoins North Holmwood, a green-buffered village.^[1] The town centre is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) away.^[2]

History and architecture

The area was developed in the mid-1950s as a council estate on behalf of the former Dorking Urban District Council by the architects William Ryder & Associates.^[1] The name recalls Goodwyns Place, a Grade II-listed country house to the north. This Arts and Crafts-style building was designed in 1901 by Hugh Thackeray Turner.^[1]^[3]

The design of the buildings and the estate's layout were praised by architectural historians Ian Nairn and Nikolaus Pevsner, who described it as "unusually good" for a council estate.^[1] The housing was developed in three parts: first, on the lowest lying land and arranged around culs-de-sac, groups of red-brick houses with rendered panelling; then blocks of red- and pale-brick flats of three and four storeys on the rising land, some with steel balconies and with a mixture of flat and sloping roofs; then two 14-storey concrete-faced tower blocks.^[1]^[2] Completed in 1965, Wenlock Edge and Linden Lea were described as "more elegant than average" because of the layout of successive projecting and recessed sections on each face.^[1] The estate retains large areas of open space and has a semi-rural character,^[1]^[4] but there is little tree cover. The layout is approximately circular: the residential areas are bounded by two perimeter roads with other roads linking them. These streets are wide and lined with grass verges, encouraging on-street parking.^[2]

In local government it is long in the Ward: Holmwoods, currently one of 21 wards in Mole Valley district. The ward's population was 6,417 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011.^[5] For the ward as a whole, housing tenure statistics reveal a lower proportion of owner-occupancy than in the district overall: according to the 2011 Census, 60.2% of properties were owner-occupied against 73.6% in Mole Valley as a whole.^[6] On the Goodwyns estate itself, some properties are now owner-occupied and others are rented—mostly from the Mole Valley Housing Association.^[4] Formed in October 2007, this housing association is part of the Circle Housing Group and is responsible for the 3,850 synonymous with the district.^[7] The association is seeking to redevelop parts of the estate, and has submitted planning applications to build 19 more flats and three houses on various underutilised sites on the estate; partly to be available under shared ownership.^[7]^[8]

Amenities

The estate is served by the Harvest Community Church, affiliated with the Elim Pentecostal movement and the FIEC.^[9] It was originally an independent Evangelical church^[10] and was registered for marriages under the name Goodwyns Evangelical Free Church in July 1966.^[11] Goodwyns is in the Anglican parish of North Holmwood, served by St John the Evangelist's Church.^[12] St John's Church of England Community School^[13] and the Dorking Rural Sure Start Children's Centre^[14] are also located at Goodwyns.

Public transport

Metrobus route 93 runs every hour on Mondays to Saturdays and every 2 hours on Sundays between the estate and Dorking railway station via the town centre. In the other direction, the service continues to Horsham via Capel.^[15]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Nairn & Pevsner 1971, p. 198.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Goodwyns Estate, Dorking" (PDF). Project no. 0399: Design and Access Statement – Rushett Drive (Site 3). Kiran Curtis Associates Architects. September 2012. p. 5. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ Historic England. "Goodwyns Place, Tower Hill, Dorking (Grade II) (1230906)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Goodwyns Estate, Dorking" (PDF). Project no. 0399: Design and Access Statement – Rushett Drive (Site 3). Kiran Curtis Associates Architects. September 2012. p. 4. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "Area: Holmwoods (Ward) – Population Density, 2011 (QS102EW)". 2011 UK Census statistics for Holmwoods Ward. Office for National Statistics. 30 January 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "Area: Holmwoods (Ward) – Tenure - Households, 2011 (QS405EW)". 2011 UK Census statistics for Holmwoods Ward. Office for National Statistics. 30 January 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Statement to accompany Planning Application in respect of Goodwyns Estate, Dorking, Surrey" (PDF). Mole Valley Housing Association. 2012. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "Goodwyns Estate, Dorking" (PDF). Project no. 0399: Design and Access Statement – Rushett Drive (Site 3). Kiran Curtis Associates Architects. September 2012. pp. 7–9. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "The Harvest Community Church is an independent Pentecostal church..." The Harvest Community Church. 2008. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ Registered in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (Number in Worship Register: 70328; Name: Harvest Community Church; Address: Goodwyns Road, Dorking; Denomination: Independent Evangelicals. (Archived version of list from April 2010; subsequent updates)
^ "No. 44075". The London Gazette. 5 August 1966. p. 8779.
^ "North Holmwood: St. John the Evangelist, North Holmwood". A Church Near You website. Archbishops' Council. 2010. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "St John's C of E Community School and Nursery". St John's School. 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "Dorking Rural Sure Start Children's Centre". Dorking Nursery School Sure Start Centre. 2008–2010. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
^ "93: Horsham–Warnham–Capel–Goodwyns–Dorking" (PDF). Metrobus. 1 September 2012. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013.