Editing Tadworth

{{Short description|Village in Surrey, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
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|official_name= Tadworth
|map_type= London
| population = 9,522
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| shire_county = [[Surrey]]
|region= South East England
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|static_image_caption=Tadworth Mill
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|post_town= Tadworth
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'''Tadworth''' is a large suburban village in [[Surrey]], England in the south-east of the [[Epsom Downs]], part of the [[North Downs]]. It forms part of the [[Reigate and Banstead|Borough of Reigate and Banstead]]. At the 2021 census, Tadworth (and [[Walton-on-the-Hill]]) had a population of 7,095<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tadworth & Walton |url=https://censusdata.uk/e02006380-tadworth--walton |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=censusdata.uk |language=en}}</ref>

==History==

===Neolithic and Roman period in Britain===
On a small farm to the north-west, South Tadworth Farm, directly at the top of the westward-facing Langley Vale and south of the [[Epsom Downs Racecourse]], is an [[Iron Age]] ''[[Banjo enclosure]]'',<ref name=ironageenc/> a term used by archaeologists for a distinctive type of prehistoric settlement. They were mostly constructed and used during the Middle Iron Age (400–100 BC), although some remained in use up to the time of the [[Roman Conquest of Britain|Roman Conquest]] (43 AD).<ref name=ironageenc/>

There are three more rectangular enclosures, which may be mentioned here as being connected in all probability with the settlement of which this villa was part, though they are actually over the border of Banstead parish. Two of these are south of the two windmills south of Tadworth. They are well-marked, nearly square enclosures, with a mound and ditch and gateways to the east or southeast. They are east of the road from Betchworth to Banstead. 

The third is west of the road, and very close to Walton village; but though on land known commonly as Walton Heath, is actually on the Banstead side of the boundary. It is larger than the others, less well-preserved, and with a gateway to the north-west. Roman tiles may be found in or near all three. These enclosures have been commonly referred to as the 'Roman Camps' on Walton Heath, but it is not obvious that they were camps.<ref name=malden/>

===Dark and Middle Ages===
Tadworth appears in [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Tadeorde'' and ''Tadorne''. It was held partly by Halsart from William de Braiose and partly by Radulf (Ralph) from the [[Bishop of Bayeux]]. Its domesday assets were: 2 [[hide (unit)|hide]]s. It had 5 [[plough]]s, [[woodland]] worth 4 [[hog (swine)|hog]]s. It rendered £3 15s 0d.<ref>[http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm Surrey Domesday Book] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030192829/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |date=30 October 2007 }}</ref> [[Manorialism]] operated for the ensuing centuries.

During this period the [[listed building|listed]] mills were erected in the south.[[File:Tadworth Mills.jpg|thumb|left|Some of the windmills, {{circa}} 1910]]

====North Tadworth Manor====
In 1273 John and James, sons of William Haunsard lord of North Tadworth Manor, gave a [[carucate]] of land, 2 acres of pasture, 12 acres of wood, and 20s. rent in North Tadworth and Little Bookham to the [[Priory of St Mary Overy]] — they held until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]].<ref name=malden/>
However, in 1524 they gave it with the [[rectory]] of Banstead to William Coltson and Richard Moys and Elizabeth his wife for a term of forty years, which was widened to complete ownership in effect by [[Henry VIII]]. From the Crown to Thomas Walson and Robert Moys, eventually the manor was given up to the latter entirely and stayed in his family until his grandson Henry who held [[manorial court|court]] in 1648.  At Henry Moys' death the manor passed to his five sisters and co-heirs.<ref name=malden/> In 1659 {{frac|4|5}} of the owners finally released their income and rights to Christopher Buckle of Burgh (Burgh Heath, see Domesday section for example in [[Kingswood, Surrey|Kingswood]]).<ref name=malden/> Only in 1663 did he acquire the remaining fifth.<ref name=malden/> Since that time North Tadworth has been held as part of the manor of Burgh in Banstead parish.<ref name=malden/>

====South Tadworth Manor====
No [[Charter]], [[Assize rolls|Assize Roll]], [[Patent Roll]] or other manuscript has been found to explain how the [[Merton Priory]] came by the manor of South Tadworth, in Domesday ''Tadeorde'', but the priory gained it around the same time when the priory gained Banstead Manor; for they held it in 1291.<ref name=malden/> As with the other manor, this manor was held by a priory until [[Henry VIII]]'s [[dissolution of the monasteries]].<ref name=malden/> [[Henry VIII]] wanted this land as his own so attached it to the wide, not all joined up, [[Hampton Court|honour of Hampton Court]]. In 1553 [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] granted it [[fealty|in fee]] to Edward Harendon, also seen as Herrenden, whose children relinquished it from one to the other by fine.<ref>[[Feet of Fines]] Surrenders in the Trinity Term, year 29 of [[Elizabeth I]]</ref> 

In 1631–32 Thomas Grymes acquired it leaving it to his son who became Sir George Grymes; in the [[English Civil War]] Robert Wilson acquired and conveyed it to Leonard Wessel [sic] in 1694, who held the manor for ten years during which time he rebuilt in into today's [[Grade I listed]] Queen Anne building, children's home and charity headquarters, Tadworth Court. Later an Act of Parliament enabled a [[fee tail]] to be cleared off to sell the manor for lack of descendants of John Fleetwood who earlier acquired it, selling it to William Mabbot. Mabbot died at Tadworth Court in 1764, having devised his property to his wife, Lady Rhoda Delves and daughter Rhoda, who with Edward Beaver sold the Court to Sir Henry Harpur in 1773. Robert Hudson and later his widow held from 1808 to c. 1860 followed by [[Lord Chief Justice]] [[Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen|Sir Charles Russell]], created later first [[Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen|Baron Russell of Killowen]] and held from 1900 by C. D. Morton.<ref name=malden/>

====Rectory Manors of Banstead====
These were held by [[St Mary Overie]] Priory until the dissolution and at various times included the above two manors and the manor of Southmerfield.

In 1732 Edward Fulham, son and heir of Anne daughter and eventually heir of Robert Wayth, sold his fifth share to Christopher Buckle. After this time the entire [[rectory]] descended with the [[advowson]] (right to call a vicar), and the [[Earl of Egmont]] is the present impropriator of the great [[tithe]]s with the exception of those in South Tadworth, which apparently passed out of the hands of the owner of the rectory in 1551.<ref name=malden/> Theoretically therefore [[chancel repair liability]] can apply to those lay impropriators who acquired the land of the South Tadworth manor of 1551 and of the 1911 [[Earl of Egmont]]'s Banstead Manor in the village of Banstead which he bought in 1847.<ref name=malden/><ref>See [[chancel repair liability]]</ref>

===Post Reformation===
During this period South Tadworth manor's purchasing Lord of the Manor, Leonard Wessels rebuilt the manor on its site and renamed it Tadworth Court in 1700.<ref name=malden>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42963 |title=Parishes: Banstead |editor=H.E. Malden |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |access-date=4 November 2012 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020224610/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42963 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Post Industrial Revolution===
In 1848, the publisher [[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]] described the place only under Banstead, where the living was a perpetual curacy and "A place of worship for dissenters in Tadworth"; much of the proverbial ''Banstead Mutton pasture'' was at that time being replaced by tilled fields.  The great tithes were commuted for £393, the vicarial [[lesser tithes]] for £300, and a rent-charge of £201. 5. 9. was payable to the trustees of [[Newport Grammar School]]; the [[glebe]] (of Banstead) consisted of 6½ acres.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50776 |title=Bampton – Bardsea |editor=Samuel Lewis |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1848 |work=A Topographical Dictionary of England |access-date=4 November 2012 |archive-date=2 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002113705/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50776 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1874 a school board was formed for Banstead, Tadworth, and Kingswood, and in 1875 Tadworth and Kingswood School was opened by the board, now Kingswood Primary School.<ref name=malden/>

Still in 1911 topographer and historian H. E. Malden describes Tadworth in detail but summarises it as "Tadworth is a hamlet on the Reigate road, included now in the ecclesiastical district of Kingswood". However, by that date there was "a Baptist chapel at Tadworth".<ref name=malden/>

The [[British Transport Police]]'s training headquarters was located at a site between Tadworth and Walton-on-the-Hill until it was closed in 2010. The Dog Section Training School which shared the site was relocated to [[Keston]] at this time, to the same location as the Metropolitan Police Dog Training School.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The dog section |url=https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-police/areas/about-us/about-us/our-history/the-dog-section/ |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.btp.police.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Geography==
Neighbouring settlements include [[Walton-on-the-Hill]], [[Kingswood, Surrey|Kingswood]], [[Epsom]], [[Burgh Heath]], [[Banstead]], [[Reigate]]. Tadworth lay within the [[Copthorne (hundred)|Copthorne]] [[hundred (division)|hundred]], an administrative division devised by the [[Saxons]] and later adopted by the [[Norman England|Normans]].

There are no watercourses draining the area as the chalk easily absorbs water on the Downs.<ref name=soilscape/><ref name=map/> The [[Tattenham Corner Line|Tattenham Corner Branch Line]] forms a deep, curved cutting running past gardens in the centre of the village as it turns to the racecourse to the north, and arrives from a tunnel immediately south of the Tadworth Roundabout preserving the gently wooded heath there.<ref name=map/>

The village adjoins in its north-west corner the top of Langley Vale, topped by the [[Iron Age]] enclosure in South Tadworth Farm.<ref name=ironageenc>Iron Age banjo enclosure, associated enclosure and linear features, 323m south-west of South Tadworth Farm {{National Heritage List for England|num=1005925|access-date=4 November 2012}}</ref> [[Epsom Downs Racecourse]] is home to [[Epsom Derby|The Derby]] and forms a contiguous development with ''the Tattenhams'', a [[ward (country subdivision)|ward]] consisting of: the neighbourhoods of Great Tattenhams in the north by Nork, Banstead; Little Tattenhams and Tattenham Corner, see [[Tattenham Corner]].

{{Geographic location
|title     = '''Nearest Settlements'''
|Centre    = Tadworth
|North     = [[Tattenham Corner|The Tattenhams]]
|Northeast = [[Burgh Heath]]
|East      = <small>''across green [[buffer zone|buffers]] beside the [[A217]]''</small><br>[[Kingswood, Surrey|Kingswood]] and Burgh Heath
|Southeast = <small>''across Banstead Heath, part of Banstead Commons''</small><br>[[Reigate]]
|South     =  <small>''across Banstead Heath, part of Banstead Commons''</small><br>[[Mogador, Surrey|Mogador]]
|Southwest = <small>''across a narrow part of Banstead Heath''</small><br>[[Walton-on-the-Hill]]
|West      = <small>''across Walton Downs''</small><br>[[Headley, Surrey|Headley]] and [[Ashtead]]
|Northwest = [[Epsom|Langley Vale, Epsom]]
}}

===Elevation, geology and soil===
The entire village sits on top of the [[North Downs]] and, taken as a whole, slopes very gradually from the north from 180m [[Above Ordnance Datum|AOD]] in the south to 151m AOD at the top of Langley Vale (Downsway Close/Kingswood Road).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gridreferencefinder.com/ |title=Grid reference Finder measurement tools |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912054323/http://gridreferencefinder.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Tadworth is roughly rectangular and is under a mile broad as it has historically been taken to include Banstead Heath to the south, on which it was placed.<ref name=map>[http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/mapsearch.aspx Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424060625/http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/mapsearch.aspx |date=24 April 2012 }} created by [[Ordnance Survey]], courtesy of [[English Heritage]]</ref>

Its geology is that of the North Downs (see [[Surrey#Geology|Surrey – Geology]]); as to soil, Chipstead, Banstead and Tadworth have the first free-draining, slightly acid loamy soil that tops the wider downs to Guildford and is found around Dorking; it is seen further along the [[Hog's Back]] along its northern side as well in [[Surrey]].<ref name=soilscape>{{Cite web |url=https://www.landis.org.uk/soilscapes/ |title=Cranfield University National Soil Resources Institute |access-date=4 November 2012 |archive-date=2 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602134653/https://www.landis.org.uk/soilscapes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Local government==
[[Surrey County Council]] elected every four years, has one representative; [[Rebecca Paul (British politician)|Mrs Rebecca Paul]] ([[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=2248|title=Councillor details – Mrs Rebecca Paul |last=Surrey County Council|first=County Hall|date=2020-04-17|website=mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk|access-date=2020-04-17|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918105151/https://mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=2248|url-status=live}}</ref>

Three councillors sit on [[Reigate and Banstead]] borough council, who are:
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|Zelanie Cooper || Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton
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|Rod Ashford ||Lower Kingswood, Tadworth & Walton
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==Landmarks==
[[File:Tadworth Court - geograph.org.uk - 1056960.jpg|thumb|left|Tadworth Court<br>Home to the Children's Trust]]

===The Children's Trust===
[[The Children's Trust, Tadworth]] a national charity providing special care for severely disabled children and rehabilitation to children with acquired brain injuries. This is housed in Tadworth Court. Tadworth Court is a grand Grade I [[listed building]] and was built at the height of [[Queen Anne style architecture]] in the very early 18th century — namely here in 1700 for Leonard Wessels, Lord of the Manor of [[Banstead]].<ref>Tadworth Court — Architecture {{National Heritage List for England|num=1029004|access-date=4 November 2012}}</ref>

===The Water Tower===
[[Tower House, Tower Road, Tadworth]]. This building was constructed in 1898 and provided water from the springs of the Sutton District Water Company in Sutton. This enabled substantial development to take place locally. The tower was decommissioned in the early 20th century in favour of one at Colley Hill. The tower has been a prominent landmark on the edge of the heath and now is a domestic residence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malvern Waters, Malvern Springs and Wells |url=https://www.malvernwaters.com/nationalparks.asp?search=yes&p=7&id=50 |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.malvernwaters.com}}</ref>

==Demography==
At the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]] Tadworth had a population of 9,522 in 3,792 households.<ref name=surreycc>{{citation|url=http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/166395/Town-populations.pdf|title=2001 Census: Collated Statistics|publisher=Surrey County Council|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616163706/http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/166395/Town-populations.pdf|archive-date=16 June 2013}}</ref>

At the [[2021 United Kingdom census|2021 Census]], the [[Parish|ecclesiastical parish]] of Tadworth had a population of 5,803 in 2,353 households.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 January 2025 |title=National Census 2021 Dashboard for the Parish of Tadworth: The Good Shepherd in the deanery of REIGATE |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305000313/https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents.parishreturns.info/documents/REIGATE_370180_The_Good_Shepherd_Tadworth.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAYVI6RSBLAUPH5AVX%2F20250304%2Feu-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250304T235936Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=b2913154837287bdd40a7be8ddef0ec81e752274fcbc116ae72c78cc2a3fa9fd |url-status=live |archive-date= |access-date=5 March 2025 |work=Church of England, Parish Statistics}}</ref>

== Religious buildings ==
[[File:Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth, nave - geograph.org.uk - 1723169.jpg|thumb|left|Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth|246x246px]]
{{see also|List of places of worship in Reigate and Banstead}}
[https://www.goodshepherdtadworth.org.uk The Church of The Good Shepherd] is the local [[Anglican]] church, which celebrated its centenary in 2012. It is open daily and has a [[church hall]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/the-church-of-the-good-shepherd-tadworth/ |title=Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth |access-date=4 November 2012 |archive-date=2 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102142316/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/the-church-of-the-good-shepherd-tadworth/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

St. John the Evangelist<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stjohnstadworth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_magazine&Itemid=1 |title=St John's Tadworth – Roman Catholic Church website |access-date=24 June 2011 |archive-date=25 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125140538/http://www.stjohnstadworth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_magazine&Itemid=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> is the local [[Roman Catholic]] church for the area. It is a modern church and parish, being built and created in the mid-twentieth century.

== Sport ==
Tadworth has a [[Non-League football]] club [[Banstead Athletic F.C.]] who play at Merland Rise.

Tadworth Athletic Club is Tadworth's local running club with men's and women's teams. Formed in 1981, they train on local roads in the winter and on the Downs in the summer every Tuesday evening. The teams participate in the Surrey Cross-Country League and the Surrey Road Running League. The men's team, led by David Williamson, won the Surrey Road League in 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.surreyathletics.uk/road/league/2012/Men.php?Y=2011&O=R | title=Surrey Road League }}</ref> Each January, the club organises the Tadworth Ten race that attracts hundreds of runners. It starts and ends at Epsom Downs Racecourse and passes through Tadworth and Walton-on-the-Hill.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

Tadworth [[Cricket]] Club is situated opposite the Duke's Head Pub, on the south-east side of the B2032. It has picturesque grounds surrounded by [[woodland]]. The club was founded in 1903, and at that time the club was originally based at a site some 400 yards north of where it is currently situated. It is not known exactly when the club moved to its present site, but it is believed{{by whom|date=May 2024}} to be before [[World War I]]. The 'Green' was substantially smaller then and lacked a pavilion.

In 1951 the club members built a new pavilion near the present site. The pavilion, along with the whole of the clubs' records and ground equipment, were destroyed by fire.{{when|date=May 2024}} The new pavilion was opened by [[Alf Gover]] (formerly of Surrey CCC and England) during Tadworth Village week in 1993. During the summer months, cricket is played at the ground by members of the Club.

==Culture and community==

=== Shops and services ===
The village has two, or possibly three, small shopping areas. The largest is around the station, approximately in the centre of the Tadworth area. There is another towards the south of the area, nearer to Walton Heath, and a third, known locally as Shelvers Hill, to the north, near to Epsom Downs. The shops in these areas include a [[butcher|butcher's shop]], [[fishmonger]] and game dealer, [[baker]], [[greengrocer]] and [[delicatessen]]. 

There are also two [[estate agent]]s, a [[travel agent]], an [[off licence]], a [[gift shop]], several [[restaurant]]s and two [[newsagent]]s/general stores. Services include one [[bank]], a [[Royal Mail|post office]], a [[general practitioner#United Kingdom|medical centre]], a [[dentist]], an optician, tyre specialist and a [[veterinarian|vet's surgery]]. There are three public houses situated to the south-east of the village centre, along the B2032 Dorking Road, these being the Blue Anchor, the Duke's Head and Inn on the Green.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Search |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=pubs+in+tadworth&oq=pubs+in+tadworth&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgAEAAYgAQyBwgAEAAYgAQyDAgBEAAYFBiHAhiABDIICAIQABgWGB4yCAgDEAAYFhgeMggIBBAAGBYYHjIICAUQABgWGB4yCggGEAAYgAQYogTSAQgzMTc5ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.google.com}}</ref>

International film actress [[Betty Stockfeld]] died in Tadworth on 27 January 1966.

=== Scouting ===
1st Tadworth Sea Scout Group was registered on 2 December 1947, originally 1st Tadworth (Church of the Good Shepherd).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bansteadscouts.co.uk/history/1st-tadworth-scout-group|title=1st Tadworth Scout Group|website=Banstead District|language=en|access-date=2020-04-17|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019152458/https://www.bansteadscouts.co.uk/history/1st-tadworth-scout-group|url-status=live}}</ref> They became [[Sea Scout]]s in 1997<ref>{{Cite web |title=1st Tadworth Scout Group – 1st Tadworth Sea Scouts |url=https://1sttadworth.co.uk/history/1st-tadworth |access-date=2025-03-04 |language=en-US}}</ref> following the Scout Masters' passion for sailing. The group falls under [[Banstead]] District.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bansteadscouts.co.uk/about-us/1st-tadworth-scout-group|title=1st Tadworth Scout Group|website=Banstead District|language=en|access-date=2020-04-17|archive-date=19 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919024842/https://www.bansteadscouts.co.uk/about-us/1st-tadworth-scout-group|url-status=live}}</ref> and follows the Policies, Organisation and Rules of the [[UK Scout Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scouts.org.uk/groups/1st-tadworth-invincible-sea-scout-group|title=Scouts|website=scouts.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref>

== Education ==
* St John's Nursery School is situated to the side of St John's catholic church on The Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=523025&y=156170&z=3&sv=523025,156170&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf |title=Streetmap.co.uk |access-date=28 August 2006 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930204556/http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=523025&y=156170&z=3&sv=523025,156170&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Tadworth Primary School is located on the Tadworth Park estate to the east of the village centre, with entrances on Heathcote and Tadorne Road.
* The nearest secondary school is [[The Beacon School, Banstead]] with alternative schools in [[Ashtead]], [[Epsom]] or [[Reigate]].
* Independent co-educational [[preparatory school (UK)|preparatory school]], [[Chinthurst School]] is located to the south of the village, on the road to [[Walton-on-the-Hill]], and caters for boys and girls aged two to eleven years. Founded in 1908.

== Transport ==
[[File:Tadworth Station - geograph.org.uk - 614052.jpg|thumb|left|Tadworth Station]]

===Roads===
The wood-lined Brighton Road ([[A217 road|A217]]) marks the eastern boundary of Tadworth as a [[dual carriageway]] with direct access to Junction 8 (Reigate Hill) of the [[M25 London Orbital Motorway]].

===Buses===
There are two [[Metrobus (South East England)|Metrobus]] services which operate through the village. Route 420 runs from [[Sutton, London|Sutton]] through [[Banstead]], Tadworth following the [[A217 road|A217]] through [[Reigate]] and terminates at [[Whitebushes]], with a few services extended to [[Gatwick Airport]]. Route 460 runs from [[Epsom]] through [[Epsom Downs]], Tadworth, Reigate, Gatwick Airport and then Crawley Bus Station.<ref>[https://images-metrobus.passenger-website.com/2022-07/ENTIRE%20NETWORK%20MAP%20JULY%202022%20A4%20Proof%202%20RGB%20for%20web.pdf] Metrobus network map dated July 2022 [PDF document]. © [[Go-Ahead Group]] et. al. 2022.</ref>

===Rail===
There are two National Rail stations, [[Tadworth railway station|Tadworth]] close to the centre of the village and [[Tattenham Corner railway station]] to the north, adjoining [[Epsom Downs]]. Despite being outside Greater London, both stations are in [[Travelcard Zone 6]]. Trains are operated by [[Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)|Southern]], with a typical off-peak service of two trains per hour to {{stn|London Bridge}} (non-stop from {{stnlnk|Norwood Junction}}).

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