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The pioneer who created the Harrier Jump Jet

In 1910 Tommy Sopwith taught himself how to fly in a monoplane at Brooklands.

• 5 mins

Chaldon's explicit hidden painting

The disturbing ‘doom painting’ was hidden inside a church for more than 700 years,

• 5 mins

The Batman of Brooklands

The 20 years transformation of a Weybridge garden.

• 6 mins

Buried upside down on Box Hill

How one man came to be buried head first at a Surrey beauty spot.

• 9 mins

Cranleigh's Secret Agents

Winterfold Hill was used to teach sabotage and silent killing techniques in WW2.

• 7 mins

All aboard the coffin train

There were no cases and trunks on this train, only coffins containing corpses.

• 7 mins

The hidden space lab deep in the Surrey Hills

Surrey's world-leading space science laboratory creating hardware for missions on Mars.

• 5 mins

Godalming's Titanic hero

How Godalming's Jack Phillips became a hero after the Ship of Dreams hit an iceberg.

• 9 mins

The boats with stories

Taking a peak at the historic wooden vessels restored at a boatyard near Chertsey.

• 5 mins

Dorking's hidden shelter

Strange things lurking under a Dorking patio.

• 5 mins

Puttenham's hidden goats

Hanging out on the hay bale - they look like the cool kids at school.

• 3 mins

It’s 1906, welcome to The Spike

Step inside the damp passageways of Guildford’s dark past.

• 5 mins

Horley fields ploughed by elephants

Godalming Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick talks about the unsung heroes of World War One.

• 10 mins

Behind closed doors in Guildford

Inside the house that creates content for a global audience.

• 8 mins

The flight that ended on Reigate Hill

The moving wing tips that mark the exact spot of a dreadful accident.

• 4 mins

The shocking story behind The Lark Ascending

How Dorking's war-weary composer created the nation's favourite piece of classical music.

• 11 mins

The man with a 60ft-long WW1 trench in his garden

Surrounded by barbed wire, sandbags and mud – this is Andy’s happy place.

• 10 mins

The gruesome murder of an unknown sailor

The turnpike, the murder, the gibbet and the shaming.

• 6 mins

Growing up in Woking with Paul Weller

Nicky Weller grew up in Stanley Road with her brother Paul, "the miserable little toad".

• 6 mins

Shere's little secret

The historical hidden gem that only villagers know about.

• 7 mins

From sacred place to outer space

How a unique embroidery project captured Surrey's hopes and aspirations in 1950s Britain.

• 8 mins

The legend of the West Clandon Dragon

How a village became obsessed with a mythical creature.

• 6 mins

The Guildford diary that rocked America

How a young man's journal found in a garden shed shocked a nation.

• 11 mins

When Gladiator blew up Bourne Woods

Roman Centurion Andy returns to the battlefield to reveal a few movie secrets.

• 8 mins

The romantic ruins of Britain’s first monastery

The 12 men who walked from France and built Waverley Abbey.

• 7 mins

Behind Bourne Woods' battle lines

The man in charge of the spit roast reveals how Gladiator celebrated after the battle.

• 6 mins