Woodmansterne is a village in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, Surrey bordering Greater London.
It sits on a small plateau of and a southern down slope of the North Downs and its ecclesiastical parish borders continue to span old boundaries and reach into Chipstead, Coulsdon and Wallington.
The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon hundred of Wallington which served for strategic meetings of elders and manor owners in the various kingdoms, including in the two centuries before the Norman Conquest.
Woodmansterne appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as
Odemerestor, derived from Old English meaning
high ground at the wooded pond.
The manor was owned at an early date by Richard de Tonbridge and was in the hundred of Wallington, passing later to the monastery at St Mary Ouverie in Southwark (the present cathedral) in 1539.
Until early in the 20th century, Woodmansterne was a small village, with sheep grazing on the downlands and woodlands.
To meet the demand of new housing in the area, Woodmansterne station opened on 17 July 1932, between Smitham and Chipstead on Southern Rail. It was a simple island platform reached by a footbridge - land for this was given for free by the builders.
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Woodmansterne is a village in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, Surrey bordering Greater London.
