page_title: Westhumble
section_title: Famous residents
hierarchical_section_title: Westhumble / Famous residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque on the gateway to Camilla Drive. See 788732 for gateway.
context_page_description: Westhumble is a village in south east England, approximately 2 km north of Dorking, Surrey. The village is not part of a civil parish, however the majority of the settlement is in the ecclesiastical Parish of Mickleham.
  The area is served by Box Hill & Westhumble railway station.
  Norbury Park is immediately to the north and there are several National Trust properties nearby, including Box Hill and Polesden Lacey. The Mole Gap Trail runs through the village, crossing the North Downs Way less than 0.40 km to the south. The railway station is the southern end point for the Thames Down Link from Kingston upon Thames.
context_section_description: Fanny Burney, the 18th-century novelist, built a house in the village in 1797 with her husband, the French general, Alexandre D'Arblay.
  The detective story writer Cyril Hare was born in Mickleham in 1900 and lived from 1951 until his death in 1958 in Westhumble, at Berry's Croft opposite Cleveland Lodge. As Judge A. A. Gordon Clark he sat in Dorking county court among others.
  The physicist and astronomer Sir James Jeans and his wife, the organist Susi Jeans, lived at Cleveland Lodge. Susi Jeans hosted an annual music festival at Cleveland Lodge from 1954; initially known as the Mickleham and Westhumble Festival, it was renamed the Boxhill Music Festival in 1966. The final festival was held in June 1992 a few months before her death in January 1993.
caption: Blue Plaque on Leladene Arch at the entrance to Camilla Drive
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