when I lived there over ten years ago all they had was a small cast iron cock, like a weathervein across the road from the vineyard near Rykers but I understand they now have a bigger cock? Where is it located?
Someone told me it was something to do with the Romans - all ways good to blame them - what have they ever done for us?
Apart from the sanitation, the roads, safe to walk the streets at night, health and education...
The worst smell in Dorking is the animal feed plant behind Westcott Rd. Poo!
I used to work at the Business Park next door to there (as opposed to Curtis Road Industrial Estate), and can indeed confirm that it gets "a bit ripe" in the summer.
My Mum and Stepdad used to own the Day Nursery on Westcott Rd and we lived above it. Some mornings it could chuck up a right wind. Also used to work on Curtis Rd at Johnstones.
So you'll be a connoisseur of road sweepers then!!