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{{Short description|Village in Surrey, England}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox UK place| |static_image_name=Bridleway on Fetcham Downs - geograph.org.uk - 1394767.jpg |static_image_caption=Bridleway on Fetcham Downs |static_image_2_name=Suburban Leatherhead - geograph.org.uk - 690416.jpg |static_image_2_caption=20th-century houses in Fetcham |country = England |coordinates = {{coord|51.290|-0.352|display=inline,title}} |official_name= Fetcham |map_type= Surrey |population = 7,996 |population_ref=(2011 census)<ref name=ons>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |date=11 February 2003 }} [[United Kingdom Census 2011]] ''[[Office for National Statistics]]'' Retrieved 20 December 2013</ref> |area_total_km2=9.72 |civil_parish=n/a |shire_district= [[Mole Valley]] | shire_county = [[Surrey]] |region= South East England |constituency_westminster= [[Dorking and Horley (UK Parliament constituency)|Dorking and Horley]] |post_town= Leatherhead |postcode_district = KT22 |postcode_area= KT |dial_code= 01372 |os_grid_reference= TQ1455 }} '''Fetcham''' is a suburban village in the [[Mole Valley]] district, in [[Surrey]], England west of the town of [[Leatherhead]], on the other side of the [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]] and has a [[mill pond]], springs and an associated nature reserve. The housing, as with adjacent [[Great Bookham]], sits on the lower slopes of the [[North Downs]] north of [[Polesden Lacey]] ([[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|NT]]). '''Fetcham Grove''' has Leatherhead and the village's main leisure centre and football club, between the two settlements. Fetcham has two short parades of shops and services, several sports teams and parks and a small number of large [[pubs]] and food premises. Neighbouring Bookham and Leatherhead have railway stations{{refn|[[Bookham railway station]] is served by half-hourly [[Effingham Junction railway station|Effingham Junction services]], part of an original route from London to [[Portsmouth]] via [[Guildford]], by which London is less than 1 hour away, Leatherhead's typical scheduled time is c. 40 minutes to [[Central London]].|group= n}} and a junction of the [[M25 London Orbital Motorway]] is a 3-mile (4.8-km) journey from it passing alongside the [[River Mole, Surrey|River Mole]] beyond a brief upland made up of most of Fetcham's remaining farms and wooded [[Great Bookham|Great Bookham Common]] demarcating Fetcham's northern border. The northern few square miles and the larger North Downs are protected [[Metropolitan Green Belt|Green Belt]], forming a [[buffer zone|buffer]] between [[Stoke D'Abernon]] (the south of [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]] post town) and [[Dorking]] respectively.
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