Thank you for everyone who bought a ticket and sponsoring a duck for the Cobham Jubilee Day Duck Race. We would especially like to thank Knight Frank Estate Agents for their sponsorship of the event.
Thousands ducks raced down the river from the Cobham Mill to the finish line by the Riverhill platform eagerly watched by a huge crowd.
Visit the Jubilee Day website to find out if you have won.
You can also watch the duck race again
The Cobham Conservation and Heritage Trust are
delighted to announce its latest publication
Following the success of the "Cobham Remembers, the Great War and its impact on a Surrey Village", we are pleased to announce the publication of its companion book "Cobham Remembers World War II and its impact on a Surrey Village". This follows a similar format to the first book and has been expanded to almost 600 pages. The hardback book provides a nostalgic, poignant and insightful view of Cobham and the surrounding villages during World War II, with interesting anecdotes and rare photographs. This social history has been combined with a Roll of Honour recognising the local men who died in the service of their country.
Copies can be ordered direct from Cobham Heritage at £19.00 per copy plus £3.50 postage & packing for one book and £7.50 postage & packing for up to 4 books. Postage & packing is free if collected from one of our Open Meetings. To order, please order and pay online through our online shop at shop.cobhamheritage.org.uk/.
The book is also available for £21.00 from:
The Cobham Bookshop, 12A Anyards Road, Cobham KT11 3JE and
Farrants, 15-19 High Street, Cobham, KT11 3DH.
This fascinating hardback book of almost 600 pages has been painstakingly researched by the authors Graeme S. R. Austin and David J. Cooke.
For delivery outside the United Kingdom please contact us by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before you order and provide details of how many books are required and where they are to be sent. We will then provide a quote for international postage and packing.
After two years we were able to hold our first "in person" open meeting and AGM, on the 23 March 2022 at St Andrew's Church, Cobham.
As some of our members are still wary of "in person" meetings due to the recent pandemic, we are pleased to provide a video recording of the AGM which can be viewed on the Cobham Heritage YouTube Channel.
With thanks to the Revd. Dr Mike Branscombe for facilitating the recording and the hosting of the event in the church.
Cobham is fortunate to have the river Mole pass close to its High Street and the opportunity it provides to see wildlife close up, especially swans and ducks.
Feeding the ducks is an age-old pastime for families but recent research has concluded that feeding bread (especially in large quantities) is detrimental to the health of the wildfowl. The uneaten bread also affects the river because it goes mouldy and affects fish as well.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and the Canal and River Trust do not recommend feeding bread to ducks as it’s like feeding them junk food.
If you would like to feed the ducks but don’t have any of their favourite food, Cobham Heritage has partnered with the Princess Alice Hospice Charity to provide individual bags of nutritious duck food. The bags can be purchased at the Princess Alice Hospice Charity shop at 52 High Street (just a short walk, 50 metres away) for a £1 donation per bag.
We want families to enjoy the river and to feed the ducks but we would like to encourage everyone to feed them good nutritious food.
Like almost every part of the U.K., Cobham suffers from packaging convenience at the expense of litter and plastic waste, especially plastic water bottles.
Helping to make the use of a reusable and refillable water bottle the norm, will help tackle plastic waste at source, curb much of the litter and reduce both plastic use and plastic waste.
The Refill initiative encourages consumers to use reusable water bottles and to make it easy to refill the water bottles at participating businesses.
The Refill scheme seeks to publicise where you can get a water refill free of charge. Participating businesses can be found either through the Refill App on your mobile smart phone or by looking out for signs on shop fronts and doors.
The scheme is nationwide and Elmbridge Borough Council are promoting it.
This will help tackle plastic waste at source and will mitigate the fact that 30% of plastic in our oceans are or derive from single use plastic water bottles.
When you are out and your water bottle needs to be refilled, you visit a participating business and a member of the shop's staff will refill it with fresh tap water.
Many businesses have signed up to Cobham Refill
Participating businesses in Cobham include: Costa, Starbucks, Sweaty Betty, Energetic Health, Cobham Yoga, Cobham Pilates, Art of Living, Evie Loves Toast, Jeremy Hobbs, Sally Adams, Travel Professionals and the Old Plough.
Any other interested businesses can contact Laurence Wells via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
For more details about the scheme visit the www.refill.org.uk/refill-cobham website.
The Cobham Conservation and Heritage Trust (CCHT) was relaunched in November 2005 from the Cobham Conservation Group. You can find out more about the Trust on the About Us page.
We hope you enjoy exploring our website and find the information interesting and stimulating and if you are not already a member that this will spur you on to join and support us. Click on the Membership menu for more details.
The Cobham Conservation and Heritage Trust is a local charity which relies on vounteers to help run the Trust, promote local history and conservation issues and organise fund raising events such as our annual Cobham Heritage Day. If you think you might like to join us, visit our Volunteer Vacancies page to find out which roles you might like to get involved with. We always try to make it fun.
Green Flag Award
Open Spaces Award
