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Oxted
Car Hire – Car Rental – Oxted, Surrey
The Car Hire Company offers a huge selection of car rentals including
makes such as Honda, Toyota, Audi, Ford, Vauxhall and Mercedes.
We also offer our own professional delivery and collection service
to anywhere inside the M25 London ring road. We offer quality car
rental services at a value price.
Oxted Local Information
Located in the Tandridge shire of Surrey is the town of Oxted.
Bordered by East Grinstead and south of Croydon with its first mention
being in the Domesday Book of 1086. Back then, the name was recorded
as ‘Acstede’, and it was owned by Eustace II of Boulogne.
The old town is now called ‘Old Oxted’, and consists
of a small street and four pubs and oddly the old town’s church,
Saint Mary’s, was built so far north of the town that it is
now almost at the centre of the new town! Drive to all four pubs
in your car rental, and chat with the locals and owners –
just don’t drink too many pints! The church dates back to
(at least) Norman times, and it is built on a large mound that is
most probably man-made. It is thought that the original church was
a Saxon construction of wattle and daub.
The fact that the new town is built up around the old church most
likely has more to do with the train station being there and attracting
people to the area. The new houses were built in the Tudor style
and these help to give the town more character. Take a drive around
in your car rental and find the old home of renown palaeontologist
Alan Charig, in Comforts Farm Avenue in Hurst Green. Charig caught
on to the popularity of dinosaurs in the 1970s, with a television
show and books on the subject. Prior to that, he worked in the Department
of Palaeontology at the London Museum of Natural History. Mohammed
al-Fayed also lived in Oxted for a time, as did footballers Julian
Speroni, Ian Pearce and Jamie Pollock.
Oxted is located at the foot of the North Downs, a chalk ridge
that extends from Surrey to Kent. Parts of the Downs form a nature
trail – why not park your car rental and have a stroll and
admire the natural beauty.
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