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The Devil’s Punch Bowl, along with Hindhead Common, was acquired by the National Trust in 1906, making it one of the first open spaces acquired by the Trust. The beauty of the area and the diversity of nature it attracts resulted in the Devil's Punch Bowl being designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest on 30 April 1986. [1] [19]
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."
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 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 ...
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.
Gibbet Hill, at Hindhead, Surrey, is the apex of the scarp surrounding the Devil's Punch Bowl, not far from the A3 London to Portsmouth road in England.The road used to pass close to Gibbet Hill, but has now been superseded by the Hindhead Tunnel and the road returned to nature.
Hindhead Commons and the Devil's Punch Bowl: Surrey Woodland, heathland, springs 647.5 1600 Holmwood Common: Surrey Woodland, common, ponds Hydon's Ball and Heath Surrey Woodland, heathland 51 126 Leith Hill: Surrey Woodland, parkland, farmland, heath, tower Limpsfield Common and Harewoods: Surrey