Smart's and Prey Heaths

Smart's and Prey Heaths
	Site of Special Scientific Interest
Area of Search	Surrey
Grid reference	SU 987 557 [1]
Interest	Biological
Area	39.0 hectares (96 acres) [1]
Notification	1993 [1]
Location map	Magic Map

Last updated February 22, 2019

Smart's and Prey Heaths is a 39-hectare (96-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-west of Woking in Surrey.^[1]^[2]

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. SSSI/ASSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in the United Kingdom are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation. The acronym "SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I".

Woking is a large town in northwest Surrey, England. It is at the southwestern edge of the Greater London Urban Area and is a part of the London commuter belt, with frequent trains and a journey time of approximately 24 minutes to Waterloo station. Woking is 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Charing Cross in central London. Woking town itself, excluding its narrowly contiguous Built-up Area which extends from West End to West Byfleet, has a population of 62,796, and the UK Government has recorded its Built Up Area as 5% more populous than its Borough with 105,367 residents in 2011, the highest in the county.

Surrey is a subdivision of the English region of South East England in the United Kingdom. A historic and ceremonial county, Surrey is also one of the home counties. The county borders Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the northwest, and Greater London to the northeast.

These mainly damp heaths are dominated by ling, cross-leaved heath and purple moor-grass. Other plants include creeping willow, dwarf gorse, oblong-leaved sundew, deergrass and round-leaved sundew.^[3]

<i>Trichophorum cespitosum</i> species of plant

Trichophorum cespitosum, commonly known as deergrass or tufted bulrush, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Scirpus cespitosus, but was changed to Trichophorum cespitosum by Carl Johan Hartman in 1849.

The heaths are crossed by footpaths.

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References

1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Smart's and Prey Heaths". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
↑ "Map of Smart's and Prey Heaths". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
↑ "Smart's and Prey Heaths citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 November 2018.

Coordinates: 51°17′31″N0°35′10″W / 51.292°N 0.586°W / 51.292; -0.586

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[dsv-1] 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Smart's and Prey Heaths". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 November 2018.

[map-2] "Map of Smart's and Prey Heaths". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 November 2018.

[3] "Smart's and Prey Heaths citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 17 November 2018.