Tadworth
Tadworth is a big rural village in Surrey in the south-east of the Epsom Downs, part of the North Downs. It develops part of the Borough of Reigate as well as Banstead. At the 2001 census Tadworth had a population of 9,522. Neighbouring settlements include Walton-on-the-Hill, Kingswood, Epsom, Burgh Heath, Banstead, Reigate. Tadworth lay within the Copthorne hundred, an administrative department developed by the Saxons as well as later embraced by the Normans. There are no gutters draining pipes the area as the chalk conveniently absorbs water on the Downs. The Tattenham Corner Branch Line creates a deep, rounded cutting running past gardens in the centre of the town as it resorts to the racecourse to the north, as well as arrives from a tunnel immediately southern of the Tadworth Roundabout protecting the gently wooded health there. The village adjoins in its north-west edge the top of Langley Vale, topped by the Iron Age enclosure in South Tadworth Farm. Epsom Downs Racecourse is home to The Derby and forms an adjoining development with the Tattenhams, a ward containing: the neighbourhoods of Great Tattenhams in the north by Nork, Banstead; Little Tattenhams and Tattenham Corner.
