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Two sites are scheduled monuments and fourteen are managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. Surrey is a county in South East England. It has an area of 642 square miles (1,660 square kilometres) [4] and an estimated population of 1.1 million as of 2017. [5] It is bordered by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire.
Winkworth Arboretum is a National Trust-owned arboretum in the civil parish of Busbridge between Godalming and Hascombe, south-west Surrey, England. The 95 acres (38 ha) arboretum was founded by Dr Wilfrid Fox , starting in 1938 and continuing through World War II .
Pages in category "National Trust properties in Surrey" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Gatton Park is a country estate set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown and gardens by Henry Ernest Milner and Edward White at Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England. Gatton Park is now partly owned by The Royal Alexandra and Albert School and partly by the National Trust .
Polesden Lacey was left to the National Trust by Mrs Greville in 1942 in memory of her father, the brewer William McEwan. [8] She was his illegitimate daughter and sole heir. [ 9 ] ) The bequest included approximately 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land along with paintings and items of furniture, which she hoped would form the basis of a future art ...
Thursley Common is an area of some 350 hectares of heathland in the southwest of Surrey, England. It is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and as a National nature reserve. [2] Lying between the villages of Thursley and Elstead, the common is generally 2–300 feet above sea-level. The site consists of extensive areas of open ...
Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons is a 1,878.5-hectare (4,642-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Godalming in Surrey. [1] [2] Thursley and Hankley Commons are Nature Conservation Review sites, Grade I. [3] An area of 115.1 hectares (284 acres) is a local nature reserve called The Flashes [4] [5] and an area of 180 hectares (440 acres) is the Elstead Group of ...
In 1984, Surrey County Council produced the first management plan for Chobham Common which acknowledged invading scrub, fire and erosion as the main threats to the site. The Surrey Trust for Nature Conservation (now renamed the Surrey Wildlife Trust) had carried out small-scale scrub clearance work from 1974 onwards and Surrey County Council ...