Grover’s Garden
This garden was presented by the trustees of the late John Grover in 1934 to the Urban District Council of Haslemere to be maintained forever as a place of rest and enjoyment for the inhabitants. John Grover's considerable legacy in Hindhead is the extent of development in his name, particularly in Wood Road and Tower Road.
John Grover was born in Clerkenwell, London on May 3rd 1835, and came to Hindhead at the age of 60, living at Heatherbank in Tower Road until his death on September 30th 1913. He and his wife Sarah are buried in the churchyard of St. Luke's at Grayshott.
After a London career, whose pinnacle was perhaps the building of the New Scotland Yard, Grover arrived in Hindhead and quickly saw the opportunity to put his development skills into practice. In 1895, Grover built the Moorlands Hotel on the Portsmouth Road. Adjacent to the hotel he built (at his own expense) the United Reform Church on the corner of Tower Road. His generosity was repeated in Beacon Hill where he provided the Congregational Church in Churt Road.
Hindhead was not the only area locally to benefit from Grover's vast wealth and business acumen. In 1903, he built a Congregational Church in Hammer and developed the brickworks which not only provided the bricks for his house building programme but also produced much needed employment locally.
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