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Friday 2nd March, 8 - 10pm Join in our Cranleigh Literary Festival. Take a seat, grab a drink and enjoy poetry readings featuring Dónall Dempsey, Kitty Coles, Kyle McHale, Ray Pool, Janice Dempsey and others. There will be an open mic for readers from the audience, so come and share your own ...

Thursday 1st March, 7pm Part of our Cranleigh Literary Festival, sponsored by Informed Choice, and celebrating World Book Day. Discover the world of ekphrastic poetry (poetry written in response to works of art) and develop your own masterpiece. The workshop is led by author Claire Dyer whose ...

A real winter warmer with international folk singer and campaigner Julie Felix, who was making music at the same time as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Tom Paxton. Julie’s fans are delighted to welcome her to Dorking for an evening of reminiscence and newer material marking the start of a magical year. ...

I was born and bred in Cranleigh and lived there for nearly 26 years with my parents and three sisters. Initially I went to Cranleigh Infant school then Park Mead, followed by Glebelands. I was at Cranleigh School for 6th form. I loved school, being a bit of a cheeky chappie but worked hard and did ...

Food. We love it, hate it, stuff our faces with it, go without it but whether we like it or not, we all have a relationship with food. Generally people have a fairly healthy relationship with their food but sometimes we can develop a harmful relationship to it. Food is fuel. Food is energy for our ...

Brent Goose (Branta Bernicula) Geese are an increasingly common sight over and around Cranleigh. Greylag Goose numbers have rocketed in the last 20 years. From just the odd one or two pairs you can now regularly see flocks of 200 or more flying to and from their roosts in the mornings and ...