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Banstead

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Banstead [ˈbænˌstɛd]
n
(Placename) a town in S England, in NE Surrey: a dormitory town for London. Pop.: 37 245 (1991)


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Going to the south-westward towards the rising country that is now called Combe Wood, I observed far off, in the direction of nineteenth-century Banstead, a vast green structure, different in character from any I had hitherto seen.
They were hard at work there far into the night, and the towering pillar of dense green smoke that rose therefrom could be seen from the hills about Merrow, and even, it is said, from Banstead and Epsom Downs.
 
 
 
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