Wooden Driveway Gates
in Abinger Hammer.

Abinger Hammer sits in the Vale of Holmesdale between Dorking and Guildford, within the Surrey Hills AONB and the Mole Valley district. The River Tillingbourne flows through the village from east to west; the village takes its name from the medieval iron-working hammer that was powered from the river, and the famous Jack-the-Smith clock above the main street commemorates that history. The residential character is predominantly rural: detached farmhouse conversions, period cottages, and larger country houses on the lanes running up towards Abinger Common and Leith Hill to the south-east.

The wooden-gate specification in Abinger Hammer is shaped by the combination of AONB landscape context and substantial rural plot sizes. Oak in framed-and-braced construction with 5-bar agricultural pattern influences is the frequent choice on the farmhouse properties, sized generously to match the entrance widths typical of the lanes here. Accoya is the answer on exposed positions climbing up towards Leith Hill, where the 294-metre elevation of the ridge makes weather resistance a first-order concern. Every installer we refer in Abinger Hammer works regularly across the full Mole Valley district.