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Secret Surrey Episodes

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    Witley's underwater ballroom

    The mystery of the folly beneath a lake in Witley.

  2. When Shepperton tricked Hitler

    Talented special FX artists helped divert German bombers away from British towns.

  3. When Gladiator blew up Bourne Woods

    Roman Centurion Andy returns to the battlefield to reveal a few movie secrets.

  4. What lies beneath Reigate

    Sand mines, a subterranean beer cellar and the oldest road tunnel in the country.

  5. Waiting beneath Limpsfield Common

    The makeshift school classroom that held 50 children.

  6. Trapped in Tatsfield

    Surrey鈥檚 highest village is also its most isolated when the snow falls.

  7. The world鈥檚 first Christmas card

    How the festive tradition was born in a Surrey village.

  8. The village that was moved

    He didn鈥檛 want any neighbours, so he demolished their cottages and closed the main road.

  9. The shocking story behind The Lark Ascending

    How Dorking's war-weary composer created the nation's favourite piece of classical music.

  10. The romantic ruins of Britain鈥檚 first monastery

    The 12 men who walked from France and built Waverley Abbey.

  11. The pioneer who created the Harrier Jump Jet

    In 1910 Tommy Sopwith taught himself how to fly in a monoplane at Brooklands.

  12. The most excruciating noise

    The ear-splitting ordeal of tuning Guildford Cathedral organ

  13. The man with a 60ft-long WW1 trench in his garden

    Surrounded by barbed wire, sandbags and mud 鈥� this is Andy鈥檚 happy place.

  14. The legend of the West Clandon Dragon

    How a village became obsessed with a mythical creature.

  15. The hidden space lab deep in the Surrey Hills

    Surrey's world-leading space science laboratory creating hardware for missions on Mars.

  16. The Guildford diary that rocked America

    How a young man's journal found in a garden shed shocked a nation.

  17. The gruesome murder of an unknown sailor

    The turnpike, the murder, the gibbet and the shaming.

  18. The forgotten racecourse

    From Grand National to International, the Surrey racecourse that became a runway.

  19. The flight that ended on Reigate Hill

    The moving wing tips that mark the exact spot of a dreadful accident.

  20. The flat-pack church

    The prefabricated tin church that arrived in Surrey by horse and cart.

  21. The eerie wall in the woods

    Concrete, steel rods and wire - Hitler's Atlantic Wall lurking in Hankley Common.

  22. The daring Westhumble cave rescue

    It was 1952 and a 15-year-old boy found himself trapped underground.

  23. The boats with stories

    Taking a peak at the historic wooden vessels restored at a boatyard near Chertsey.

  24. The Batman of Brooklands

    The 20 years transformation of a Weybridge garden.

  25. The astonishing life of Haslemere鈥檚 signal box

    The Victorian levers and switches still keeping commuters on track.

  26. Surrey鈥檚 emerald invaders

    Parakeets are everywhere until you try to spot one.

  27. Shere's little secret

    The historical hidden gem that only villagers know about.

  28. Sealed until the Second Coming

    The church at Albury that nobody can visit.

  29. Ripley鈥檚 wonder drug

    The pharmacy in Ripley that kept an extraordinary secret before being found out.

  30. Puttenham's hidden goats

    Hanging out on the hay bale - they look like the cool kids at school.

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