Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Horsley, Effingham, Lovelace, Send, and Tillingbourne. The constituency is larger than the Mole Valley district in Surrey as it includes five wards in the east of the Borough of Guildford, three of which are nearer to Woking than to Dorking. The largest town in the constituency is Dorking, second largest is Leatherhead and there are many rural and semi-rural villages, generally within one hour's reach of London so properly classed as part of the London Commuter Belt. The constituency was created in 1983; much of the same area was covered by the Dorking constituency which preceded it. It is a
Eastern mole and the second part, "mole" is from the Middle English "molle" which in turn is related to another Middle English word, "mold-warpe", which means "earth-thrower". Fossil remains have been reported from the upper Ohio Valley in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and Pleistocene cave faunas in Texas. Moles till and form soil, feed on destructive insects such as cutworms and Japanese beetles, and dig tunnels that aerate the soil and permit moisture to penetrate deeper soil layers. The pelt is small and does not take dyes well; it is thus of no commercial interest to the fur industry. When moles disfigure