Whyteleafe town

At about this time, more land for gasworks use was bought alongside this new gasholder. In the Whyteleafe Gas Works were taken over by the Croydon Gas Company, which soon relinquished the site after dismantling the two gasholders on the west side of the Godstone road.

They kept the land on the other side, and the South Eastern Gas Board put up a new gasholder in , using the nearby buildings to house equipment to add a distinctive smell to the gas. This was required by law when the area changed from town gas with its natural noxious odour to natural gas which has very little smell in its natural state. Kenley waterworks started life in , and they extended their main supply pipe along the Godstone road into Whyteleafe within fifteen years.

Cottagers in Welcomes Terrace, and other named terraces nearer to the crossroads in central Whyteleafe shared the costs of a mains connection by having a single delivery pipe serving two or more cottages: a there are still a few where this remains the case to this day.

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