East Clandon is a village and parish in Surrey, England on the A246 between the towns of Guildford to the west and Leatherhead to the east. Neighbouring villages include West Clandon and West Horsley.
It has a population of 250 in 110 homes clustered around the church of St Thomas of Canterbury, The Queen's Head pub and the village hall. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Guildford in the county of Surrey, the tiny 9-square-mile (23 km2) parish landscape includes a traditional country estate, arable and livestock farmlands, woodlands, a golf course and Hatchlands Park, a National Trust property.
Famous quotes containing the word east:
“Though all the East did quake to hear
Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
And all the West likewise did fear
To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)