Editing Cobham, Surrey (section)

==Local leisure and entertainment==
[[Painshill Park]] is nearby and Silvermere golf course is located in Redhill Road on the north side of the A3. Cobham has four football clubs: [[Cobham F.C.]], [[Mole Valley SCR F.C.]], Cobham United Football Club and Cobham Town FC (formed 2007). Cobham also has a cricket club, Cobham Avorians, formed in 1928.  Avorians was named after its founder, local landowner Edward James Avory, and originally played at the Fairmile Estate before re-locating to Convent Lane on the Burwood Estate in 1948.  [[Cobham RFC|Cobham Rugby Football Club]] has four teams which play regularly, as well as youth and mini sections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cobhamrfc.com |title=Welcome to Cobham Rugby|publisher=Cobham Rugby Club|access-date=2 July 2010}}</ref> There is Cobham Village Club and a branch of the [[Royal British Legion]]. Cobham Players<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cobhamplayers.org.uk|title=Cobham Players-presenting plays since 1948|publisher=cobhamplayers.org.uk|access-date=2 July 2010}}</ref> regularly present plays, musicals, pantomimes and other entertainments in Cobham.

Walton Firs Activity Centre lies just off the A3 in Cobham and covers 28 acres.  It takes its name from Colonel Walton, who dealt with the purchase of the site in 1939.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://waltonfirs.co.uk/history |title= History |publisher= Walton Firs |access-date= 29 March 2023}}</ref>  It was used by a Royal Artillery [[anti-aircraft]] battery during [[World War II]] and in peacetime returned to use as a Scout camp site.  During the 1990s some 3,000 additional trees were planted, and more recently an all-weather barn and an artificial, but realistic, caving complex have been added.