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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 ...
In 1826 the road was rebuilt around the Devil's Punch Bowl to ensure that the gradient was no more than 5%. [7] The road became part of the A3 when road numbering was introduced in the 1920s. By the start of the new millennium most of the A3 had been dualled; of the route from Southfields to Havant , only the section that passed through ...
The perpetrators were hung in chains to warn others on Gibbet Hill, a short walk away on top of the Devil's Punch Bowl. With an increase in traffic and opening of the London to Portsmouth railway line removing much of the road transport of freight, such incidents reduced during the 19th century. [9] [10]
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.
The truth about the Devil’s Punchbowl The barracks within a fort in Natchez, circa 1864. The barracks, or refugee camps, were built of reused material from former slave markets, with different ...
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.
Thursley is a village and civil parish in southwest Surrey, west of the A3 between Milford and Hindhead.An associated hamlet is Bowlhead Green.To the east is Brook.In the south of the parish rises the Greensand Ridge, in this section reaching its escarpment near Punch Bowl Farm and the Devil's Punch Bowl, Hindhead.