| Goodwyns | |
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 The Harvest Community Church on Stubs Hill | |
  Goodwyns Location withinSurrey | |
| OS grid reference | TQ170478 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| 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 | |
| 51°13′05″N0°19′31″W / 51.2180°N 0.3252°W /51.2180; -0.3252 | |
Goodwyns is ahousing estate inDorking, a market town inSurrey, England. It is on the return slope of one of two hillsides of the town and adjoinsNorth Holmwood, agreen-buffered village.[1] The town centre is about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) away.[2]
The area was developed in the mid-1950s as acouncil estate on behalf of the former DorkingUrban District Council by the architects William Ryder & Associates.[1] The name recalls Goodwyns Place, aGrade II-listed country house to the north. ThisArts and Crafts-style building was designed in 1901 byHugh Thackeray Turner.[1][3]
The design of the buildings and the estate's layout were praised by architectural historiansIan Nairn andNikolaus 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 aroundculs-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 theWard: Holmwoods, currently one of 21wards inMole Valley district. The ward's population was 6,417 at the time of theUnited Kingdom Census 2011.[5] For the ward as a whole,housing tenure statistics reveal a lower proportion ofowner-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, thishousing association is part of theCircle 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 undershared ownership.[7][8]
The estate is served by the Harvest Community Church, affiliated with theElim Pentecostal movement and theFIEC.[9] It was originally an independentEvangelical church[10] and was registered for marriages under the nameGoodwyns Evangelical Free Church in July 1966.[11] Goodwyns is in theAnglican 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.
Metrobus route 93 runs every hour on Mondays to Saturdays and every 2 hours on Sundays between the estate andDorking railway station via the town centre. In the other direction, the service continues toHorsham viaCapel.[15]
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