Cobham endogenous

• Location

  • borough of Elmbridge in surrey, england
  • 17 miles SW of london
  • 10 miles NE of Guildford
  • river mole runs through it
• topography

  • built next to the river mole, provided flat land and fertile soil ideal for farming/agriculture
  • elevation ranges from 70-135ft above sea level
• physical geography

  • drainage = slow, permeable, seasonally wet
  • soil type = fertile (clayey soil)
  • built on river mole floodplain (prone to flooding)
• land use and history

  • Settlement = linear village settlement
  • agricultural past due to location on the river mole
  • light industrial history in the 1700s - cobham mill produced corn, flour and animal fed
  • today cobham is a residential settlement with 3,744 houses
  • upper class commercial/service high street
• built environment

  • cobham was planned and developed around the ancient parish church St Andrew
  • cobham mill, painshill park mark cobham’s history
  • building types - houses and buildings are mostly semi detached or detached - Victorian and Georgian houses
• infrastructure

  • motorway = M25
  • dual carriageway = A3
  • train stations = cobham and Oxshott - 40 mins to london
  • river mole used to be a navigable waterway
• demographic

  • population = 12,000
  • average age = 40
  • 76% born in UK
  • 91% white British - UK - 85%
• economic situation

  • 45% have a level 4 education qualification
  • means average salary is 43k (1.5x National average)
  • unemployment = 1.2%, UK = 3.8%
  • mostly tertiary and quaternary sector jobs