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The Devil's Punch Bowl is a 282.2-hectare (697-acre) visitor attraction and biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated just to the east of the village of Hindhead in the English county of Surrey.
It is the second highest hill in Surrey. Leith Hill stands 23 metres taller and Botley Hill stands 2.4 metres lower. [1] The summit of Gibbet Hill commands a panoramic view, especially to the north and east. The view to the north overlooks the Devil's Punchbowl, Thursley, Hankley Common, Crooksbury Hill, and the Hog's Back towards Godalming and ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:16, 30 July 2011: 2,816 × 2,112 (1.46 MB): Simon Burchell {{Information |Description ={{en|1=The old A3 at the Devil's Punch Bowl in Surrey, after the Hindhead Tunnel had been opened to traffic and the old road closed.
The section of the old A3 north of Hindhead and alongside the Devil's Punch Bowl has been returned to tree-interspersed heathland. The nearest railway station is at Haslemere, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) away, on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour stations.
It was built to bypass the village of Hindhead in Surrey. At 1.14 miles (1.83 km) in length, [3] the tunnel is the longest non-estuarial road tunnel in the United Kingdom, and takes the road beneath the Devil's Punch Bowl, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Haslemere police find an unidentified sailor, bludgeoned to death on the Portsmouth Road, at the edge of the Devil's Punchbowl. He is buried in a nameless grave in Hindhead churchyard. "Ten years ago," he said, speaking with more than his ordinary deliberation, "the Haslemere police picked up a dying sailor on the Portsmouth Road."
High Jump has an elevation of 126 metres (413 ft) above sea level and 34 metres (112 ft) above the col (nearest notch/gap). This places the Devil's Jumps 32nd among Surrey Hills and narrowly among the 34 Surrey Hills above 100 metres (330 ft) above sea level with only 36 hills in the county listed by the national hill-climbing database.
Sign for Miss James' Walk. On the land she gave to the National Trust is a path, Miss James' Walk, through Nutcombe Valley. [7] The Hindhead Tunnel and approaches enable the A3 road to undershoot its old route along the upper lip of the Devil's Punch Bowl, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The south approach cuts the Walk.