The History of Westcott and Milton (ISBN 0 9539672 0 4) was published in December 2000 and is now out of print. A new edition is being prepared and should be available in 2025

An Annual Report was formerly published in June with a selection of articles relating to the history of Westcott. This practice ended in 2015, replaced somewhat by 3/4 issues of an expanded Newsletter each year.

The main items in these Reports were:-

2015

The Building of Holy Trinity Church

From Goods Yard to Car Park

Dorking – a By-Pass?

The Red House and the Cory-Wrights

Dating Old Postcards

Westcott Then and Now

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2014

A Fateful Year

What Happened to Mr Roberts?

How Westcott has Grown

Lucy Ellis –  A Life

The Story of the Westcott Scouts

Westcott’s Wonder Horse

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2013

Westcott & the Leith Hill Musical Festival

Heath Cottage

Jacques Doneux – Secret Agent

Life with “Wobbles” – A Westcott Childhood

Upholders of the Law

In Memory of the Crown

Eyewitnesses to History

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2012

Westcott & Domesday

Our Lords of the Manor

Village Life Between the Wars

Royal Celebrations

Roy Bennett’s War

The Olympic Torch of 1948

A Twenty-first in the ‘Twenties

A Victorian Cricket Match

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2011

A Coming of Age

Westcott in the War  – the Dynamo Specials

A Westcott Windmill

Cecil Lewis – The man who did nearly

Charles Joseph Wills of Westcott House

Westcott’s Volunteer Fire Brigade

Keeping Calm and Carrying On in 1940

‘Up the Surrey’

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2010

Grave News

Leslie Howard –  a little more about his life and death

Westcott Fair

A Look Back to the 1920s and 1930s (Jim Aslett)

Operation Pied Piper – Destination Westcott

My Westcott Life PartII (Iris Lucas)

Westcott in 1910

The 1911 Census

A Schoolboy’s Life in Westcott (Tony Allen)

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2009

Peppermint & Lavender Growing in Westcott

Milton Street in 1823

Philip Greathurst’s Tankard (Richard Ede)

The Westcott Anti-Vaccinationists

The Assassination of Pimpernel Smith

Memories of Peasmount (Maurice Balchin)

Westcott Poem

Lord Haw Haw of Westcott Street

Mrs Hibbert’s Cottage Ornee

My Westcott Life Part I (Iris Lucas)

Operation Pied Piper – Survey of Accommodation

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 2008

 

Holy Trinity Church

Westcott, the War and the W.I.

Early Motor Bus Services in Westcott (Richard Ede)

Who was who and Who did what in 1908

From Goods Yard to Car Park

Westcott in 1908

Westcott Players

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2007

Westcott in 1888
Westcott Rifle Range
Post Boxes of Westcott
Red Triangle Club
Logmore Isolation Hospital
Nuisances in Westcott
Westcott Ice Houses

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2006

My Early Years (Fred Dixon)
We Thank You (for service in the Great War)
The Sandrock
Westcott in The Times
The Teapot from Tavistock Mystery
George Tunnell’s Dairy (Richard Ede)
Broomfield and the Touche Family

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2005

Cottage Holding in Balchins Lane
War to Peace at Milton Court (P Bennett)
England’s Pleasant Land – Pageant
17th Dorking (Westcott) Scout Group
William Balchin 1879-1942 (P Chapman)
The Bury Hill Observatory
Westcott News in 1918
Milton Heath House
Manorial Customs & the Mansfields

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2004

Milton Court in Wartime
Absent with Caccinium Mytillis
Barclay, Perkins & Co. Ltd.
Westcott in 1950 – Who Lived Where
The Great Chestnut Gathering
The Westcott Rover Crew
The Sandrock
Westcott Mill Angling Society

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2003

Sidney May – Rookery Valet
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Westcott Fellowship Cottage Trust
Milton Heath and the Nower
The Westcott Reading Room
Lonesome Lodge

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2002

Tom Humphrey – Westcott’s Pocket Hercules
HMS Westcott
The Boycott of the Bloomers
‘Hallelujah Horace’ Wakeford & Son
A Museum Adventure in Dorking
The Building of Holy Trinity Church

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2001

Local Author: Lady Bray
Westcott Ice Houses
Parsonage Lane Plane Crash
John Evelyn: a Man of His Time
The Fairbrother Murder
Westcott in wartime

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2000

The Westcott Fire Brigade
The Heaver Murder of 1901
Messrs Fuller & Co. Bankers
St John’s Road Mission Hall
Westcott in 1891