History and Heritage
Visit Dorking and share in the history of the people and places that have made this a unique and individual town. A town as old as Dorking, with its origins dating from Roman times, has its share of momentous and unusual events and has provided a home for the famous and infamous.
The great composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was inspired by the same surroundings that we enjoy today Charles Dickens used local places and characters when writing The Pickwick Papers.
