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
River Mole Ages and the river appears as "Amele" in Domesday Book and subsequently as "Emele" in 12th- and 13th-century Court Rolls. This name is probably derived from the Old English word "æmen" meaning "misty" or "causing mists", and the name of the River Ember probably has its origins in this name. The name "Mole" does not appear until the 16th century, first occurring as "Moule" in Harrison's "Description of Britain" of 1577. The antiquarian William Camden uses the Latinized form "Molis" in the 1586 edition of "Britannia" and Michael Drayton is the first to use "Mole" in his poem "Poly-Olbion" published