Feilding (d.1918). It is now a nursing home. Local Government County Falling within the county of Surrey, a third tier of local government is responsible for education, almost all built infrastructure and other services such as social care. Surrey County Council is elected every four years and has one representative, from Betchworth for Dorking Rural: Helyn Clack, (Con) who participates in these committees: Cabinet Member for Community Services and the 2012 Games decisions People, Performance and Development The Mole Valley local committee (obligatory) The second party forming the main local opposition in the 2013 election, was the Liberal Democrats gaining 1,527 votes versus the winning candidate's 1,810. District Betchworth is in the east of Mole Valley District Council area, in which the main town is Dorking. Two councillors sit on Mole Valley District Council, who are: Parish At the local level Betchworth Parish Council provides certain local facilities and services. Parliamentary Constituency Betchworth is within Mole Valley parliamentary constituency. Geography Location Betchworth is east of Dorking and west of Reigate. The village is south of London, in the outer London commuter belt. Elevation Elevations range from 216 m at the water tower, which marks the highest point of the parish on Box Hill, down to the River Mole, which runs east–west through the village at 43 m AOD. Between these extremes the landscape is mainly undulating, except for the steep (and where quarried for several hundred metres, sheer) chalk face of the North Downs. Geology & Soil Formation of the North Downs and the erosion that has taken place widely with repeated sea inundations and deposition is described in detail in the Geology of Surrey. Mammoth fossilised bone remains have been found below flint beds under considerable clay in the low hills by the bank of the River Mole in Betchworth. Most of the parish has free draining slightly acid loamy soil. Soil of the area that forms the top of the Betchworth Hills is "free draining, slightly acid but base-rich soil" rather than "shallow, lime-rich soil over chalk or limestone" which dominates the middle of Box Hill. This is the natural spur to the trees that line the top as it produces extremely fertile pastures and deciduous woodland. Surrey Wildlife Trust manages the rare flower meadows beneath the old quarry. The land rises towards the North Downs AONB. Below this range of hills the Mole flows briefly along the