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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]
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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 A3 now passes under Hindhead in the Hindhead Tunnel and its route along the Punch Bowl has been removed and landscaped, but the crossroads still exists for local traffic, as a double mini-roundabout. [5] Hindhead is 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Guildford and on the border with Hampshire.
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not far from the A3 London to Portsmouth road in England.The road used to pass close to Gibbet Hill, but has now been superseded by the Hindhead Tunnel and the road returned to nature.
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."
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Devil's Punchbowl on the north-west face of Mangerton. The Devil's Punchbowl (Irish: Poll Ifrinn), [a] at 670 metres (2,200 ft) on Mangerton's north-west face is a deep oval-shaped corrie filled by a loch in its base that drains into the Owengarriff River from which Torc Waterfall is formed, before finally flowing into the Lakes of Killarney below.