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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."
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.
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 ...
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not far from the A3 London to Portsmouth road in England.The road used to pass close to Gibbet Hill, but has now been superseded by the Hindhead Tunnel and the road returned to nature.
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.
English: 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. Hindhead, Surrey, England. Hindhead, Surrey, England. Date
The Devil's Jumps are linked to a variety of local landmarks by folklore, including Mother Ludlam's Cave near the ruins of Waverley Abbey, the Devil's Punch Bowl at Hindhead, the village of Thursley and the parish church at Frensham. [2]