Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) was founded in 1959 as Surrey Naturalists' Trust and it is one of forty-six wildlife trusts covering Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Alderney. SWT carries out conservation activities on a considerable area of Surrey County Council's large countryside estate and also manages land on behalf of the Ministry of Defence estate. As of 2022 the SWT manages more than 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) of land for wildlife and employs more than 100 staff. It had an income of £5.1 million and expenditure of £5.7 million. [1]
As of April 2022 the SWT manages sixty-eight nature reserves. [2] [lower-alpha 1] Thirty-one are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, nine are Special Protection Areas, eight are Special Areas of Conservation, one is a national nature reserve, twelve are local nature reserves, four are Nature Conservation Review sites, two are Geological Conservation Reviews, five include scheduled monuments and two are listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.
Surrey is a county in South East England. It has an area of 642 square miles (1,660 square kilometres) [7] and an estimated population of 1.19 million as of 2017. [8] It is bordered by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. Its top level of government is provided by Surrey County Council and the lower level by eleven boroughs and districts, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley and Woking. [9]
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Ash Ranges [10] | 1,392 hectares (3,440 acres) | Pirbright 51°16′05″N0°39′36″W / 51.268°N 0.660°W SU936529 | PL | SPA, [11] SSSI [12] | This large area of dry heath provides a habitat for many rare plants, inverebrates and reptiles. There are flora such as bell heather, early-purple orchid and the carnivorous round-leaved sundew, and heath tiger and green tiger beetles, while birds include nightjars, woodlarks and Dartford warblers. [10] | |
Ashtead Park [13] | 24 hectares (59 acres) | Ashtead 51°18′54″N0°17′28″W / 51.315°N 0.291°W TQ192587 | YES | LNR, [14] RHPG [15] | The nature reserve was formerly part of the park of Ashtead House. It is mainly woodland on heavy London Clay and it has two ponds. Fauna include the broad-bodied chaser and emperor dragonflies and common blue damselfly. [13] | |
Barossa [16] | 498 hectares (1,230 acres) | Camberley 51°21′04″N0°44′42″W / 51.351°N 0.745°W SU875621 | YES | SPA, [11] SSSI [17] | This site is mainly heathland with areas of pine and deciduous woodland. Birds include nightjars, woodlarks and Dartford warblers. There are snakes such as adders and grass snakes, and lizards include slow worms and common lizards. [16] | |
Bay Pond [18] | 7 hectares (17 acres) | Godstone 51°14′53″N0°03′50″W / 51.248°N 0.064°W TQ352516 | NO | SSSI [19] | This is an educational reserve run by the Trust, with facilities such as an outdoor classroom. It has four ponds and the main one is believed to have been made in 1611 to hold back water for a mill. Other habitats are wildflower meadows and a mature alder swamp. Butterflies include gatekeeper, ringlet, small skipper and orange tip. [18] | |
Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns [20] | 27 hectares (67 acres) | Betchworth 51°14′49″N0°17′06″W / 51.247°N 0.285°W TQ198511 | YES | SAC, [21] SSSI [22] | This chalk downlands site is part of the North Downs and the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has a rich variety of flowering plants, including orchids. The lime kilns house a variety of bat species, such as the whiskered, Natterer's, brown long-eared, Brandt's and Daubenton's. [20] | |
Bisley and West End Commons and Reidon Hill [23] | 46 hectares (110 acres) | Woking 51°19′30″N0°38′42″W / 51.325°N 0.645°W SU945593 | YES | LNR, [24] SAC, [25] SPA, [11] SSSI [26] | This site has heath, grassland and woodland. There are mammals such as roe deer, and invertebrates include adders, grass snakes, slow-worms and common lizards. [23] | |
Blindley Heath [27] | 26 hectares (64 acres) | Godstone 51°11′10″N0°02′42″W / 51.186°N 0.045°W TQ367448 | YES | LNR, [28] SSSI [29] | This damp grassland site on Weald Clay has a rich flora. There are also a number of ponds and the Ray Brook runs through the heath. The grassland is dominated by tussock grass and there are scattered oaks, hawthorns, willows and blackthorns. [30] | |
Brentmoor Heath and Folly Bog [31] | 59 hectares (150 acres) | Woking 51°20′24″N0°39′29″W / 51.340°N 0.658°W SU936610 | YES | LNR, [32] SAC, [25] SPA, [11] SSSI, [26] | The nature reserve has heathland, woodland, acid grassland and ponds. There are grass snakes and adders and birds such as woodlarks, Dartford warblers, peregrine falcons and hobbies. [31] | |
Broadstreet, Backside and Rydes Commons [33] | 158 hectares (390 acres) | Guildford 51°14′49″N0°37′19″W / 51.247°N 0.622°W SU963507 | YES | These commons provide access to nature for people in the local area. The site has poor acidic grassland, oak and semi-mature birch woodland and ponds. [33] | ||
Brockham Limeworks [34] | 45 hectares (110 acres) | Brockham 51°14′53″N0°16′30″W / 51.248°N 0.275°W TQ205513 | YES | SAC, [21] SM, [35] SSSI [22] | This former chalk quarry ceased operation in 1936. It had two batteries of lime kilns, which have become roosting sites for bats. Some of the floor of the quarry has become species-rich chalk grassland, with plants such as broad-leaved helleborine and pyramidal, common spotted, fragrant and bee orchids. [34] | |
Brookwood Lye [36] | 22 hectares (54 acres) | Brookwood 51°18′25″N0°37′12″W / 51.307°N 0.620°W SU963573 | NO | This is mainly wet grassland which has a rich variety of flora. Other habitats include alder carr and broadleaved woodland. There are many birds and invertebrates such as dragonflies. [36] | ||
Burner's Heath and Swallows Pond [37] | 5 hectares (12 acres) | Pirbright 51°17′17″N0°38′31″W / 51.288°N 0.642°W SU948552 | YES | This site is mainly woodland. It is a conifer plantation with areas of broadleaf trees, heath and acid grassland. [37] | ||
Chinthurst Hill [38] | 17 hectares (42 acres) | Guildford 51°12′07″N0°33′00″W / 51.202°N 0.550°W TQ014458 | YES | LNR, [39] SM [40] | The hill has woodland and dry acid grassland. There are woodland flowering plants such as wood anemone, yellow archangel, wood forget-me-not, red campion, common figwort, butcher’s broom and lady’s smock. [38] | |
Chitty's Common [41] | 5 hectares (12 acres) | Guildford 51°15′43″N0°35′53″W / 51.262°N 0.598°W SU979524 | YES | This urban common has wet and dry woodland, grassland, ponds and ditches. There are large amounts of dead wood which provide a habitat for invertebrates such as stag beetles. The grassland has many butterflies such as commas, red admirals and peacocks. [41] | ||
Chobham Common [42] | 574 hectares (1,420 acres) | Chobham 51°22′26″N0°36′07″W / 51.374°N 0.602°W SU974648 | YES | NCR, [43] NNR, [44] SAC, [25] SM, [45] [46] [47] SPA, [11] SSSI [48] | The common has a variety of habitats, such as wet and dry heathland, and its fauna and flora include many rare and scarce species, such as marsh clubmoss and marsh gentian. There are more than eighty birds species, including nationally important breeding populations of nightjars, woodlarks and Dartford warblers. The site is also very important for invertebrates, with sixty-four rare or scarce species, including the ant Formica rufibarbis , the robber fly Eutolmus rufibarbis and the silver-studded blue butterfly. [49] | |
Colekitchen Down [50] | 3 hectares (7.4 acres) | Gomshall 51°13′41″N0°26′53″W / 51.228°N 0.448°W TQ084488 | NO | This sloping area of species-rich unimproved chalk grassland is surrounded by woodland and scrub. There is a variety of butterflies including chalkhill blue, small heath, adonis blue, gatekeeper, brimstone and marbled white. [50] | ||
Crooksbury Hill [51] | 17 hectares (42 acres) [52] | Farnham 51°12′22″N0°44′42″W / 51.206°N 0.745°W SU878459 | YES | SM [53] | There are extensive views from the top of the hill over south-west Surrey and east Hampshire. The site has sandy soil with heath and woodland. It was formerly part of Crooksbury Common, and the trees were planted after the area was enclosed in 1848. [51] Soldier's Ring on the north side of the hill is a scheduled monument: it is a hillfort dating to the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age. [53] | |
Cucknell's Wood [54] | 11 hectares (27 acres) | Shamley Green 51°10′37″N0°30′43″W / 51.177°N 0.512°W TQ041430 | YES | Birds in this 400 year old semi-natural wood include great spotted woodpecker, lesser spotted woodpecker, willow tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, goldcrest, green woodpecker and tawny owl. There are mammals such as dormice. [54] | ||
Dawcombe [55] | 23 hectares (57 acres) | Reigate 51°15′32″N0°15′36″W / 51.259°N 0.260°W TQ215525 | NO | SAC, [21] SSSI [22] | This site is mainly chalk grassland with large areas of hawthorn scrub and woodland. The grassland provides a habitat for many species of orchids, including pyramidal, fly, common spotted, man, greater butterfly, fragrant and bee. [55] | |
Elstead Group of Commons [56] | 180 hectares (440 acres) | Elstead 51°10′19″N0°40′37″W / 51.172°N 0.677°W SU926423 | YES | SPA, [57] SSSI [58] | This site has heath, woodland and dry acid grassland, with scrub controlled by a herd of Belted Galloway cattle. It is important for saproxylic (dead wood eating) invertebrates, such as stag beetles. There are several ponds with a population of around a thousand toads. [56] | |
Fames Rough [59] | 23 hectares (57 acres) | Chipstead 51°18′07″N0°11′13″W / 51.302°N 0.187°W TQ265574 [60] | YES | SSSI [61] | This site is notable for its wild flowers. [59] Part of it is grassland which is periodically ploughed in order to provide a habitat for three very rare arable weeds, ground pine, cut-leaved germander and mat-grass fescue. [62] | |
Farncombe Wood [63] | 1 hectare (2.5 acres) | Godalming 51°12′04″N0°37′01″W / 51.201°N 0.617°W SU967455 | YES | This steeply sloping wood was donated to the trust in 2003. It is mainly hazel coppice with oak standards. Ground flora include bluebells, wood anemone, yellow archangel and pignut. [63] | ||
Fir Tree Copse [64] | 6 hectares (15 acres) | Dunsfold 51°06′18″N0°32′24″W / 51.105°N 0.540°W TQ023350 | YES | SSSI [65] | This is oak and ash woodland, with hazel coppice. Pipistrelle bats have been recorded, together with birds such as the tawny owl and willow warbler. There are many species of fungi on rotting logs, and invertebrates include the nationally scarce common fan-foot moth. [64] | |
The Forest and the Highlands [66] | 27 hectares (67 acres) | East Horsley 51°17′06″N0°25′52″W / 51.285°N 0.431°W TQ095552 | YES | Almost 180 plant species and more than 50 of birds have been recorded in this woodland site, including woodpeckers, Eurasian nuthatches, Eurasian treecreeper and tawny owls. There are amphibians such as common toads and great crested newts. [66] | ||
Fraser Down [67] | 10 hectares (25 acres) | Dorking 51°15′36″N0°15′58″W / 51.260°N 0.266°W TQ211526 | NO | SAC, [21] SSSI [22] | This is mainly chalk downland with some yew and beech woodland. The grassland has the rare silver-spotted skipper butterfly and wild flowers such as cowslip and wild marjoram. [67] | |
Gracious Pond [68] | 14 hectares (35 acres) | Chobham 51°21′54″N0°35′02″W / 51.365°N 0.584°W SU987638 | NO | SSSI [48] | This site has heath, wet woodland and ponds. Fauna include common toad and raft spiders, which can run on water. There are heathland plants such as round-leaved sundew and trees include beeches. [68] | |
Graeme Hendrey Wood [69] | 10 hectares (25 acres) | Bletchingley 51°14′02″N0°04′23″W / 51.234°N 0.073°W TQ346501 | YES | This former sand and gravel quarry is now a wood, with ash, oak, sycamore, sweet chestnut, hazel and silver birch. Ground flora include enchanter’s nightshade, bird's-nest orchid and dog’s mercury. [69] | ||
Hackhurst Downs [70] | 40 hectares (99 acres) | Guildford 51°13′37″N0°25′55″W / 51.227°N 0.432°W TQ096487 | YES | LNR, [71] SSSI [72] | Much of this steeply sloping site is chalk grassland which is grazed by goats, and there are also areas of mature woodland and scrub. Flowering plants include wild marjoram, hedge bedstraw, vervain, harebell and mouse-ear hawkweed. [70] | |
Hedgecourt [73] | 5 hectares (12 acres) | Felbridge 51°08′42″N0°04′12″W / 51.145°N 0.070°W TQ351402 | YES | SSSI [74] | This lakeside site has wet alder woodland, willow carr, damp oak woods and reedswamp. Twelve species of dragonfly have been recorded and breeding birds include water rails, mute swans, sedge warblers and tufted ducks. [73] | |
Hill Park [75] | 24 hectares (59 acres) | Tatsfield 51°17′02″N0°02′20″W / 51.284°N 0.039°W TQ423559 | YES | LNR [76] | This site on the slope of the North Downs has flora-rich chalk grassland with fly, bee and pyramidal orchids. [75] There is also woodland with ash, beech, yew and an avenue of horse chestnut. [76] | |
Howell Hill [77] | 5 hectares (12 acres) | Epsom 51°20′31″N0°13′26″W / 51.342°N 0.224°W TQ238618 | YES | There are chalk spoil heaps on this calcareous grassland site. Around 260 species of flowering plants have been recorded, including mouse-eared hawkweed, kidney vetch, common spotted orchid, common knapweed, fragrant orchid and white helleborine orchid. [77] | ||
Kitchen Copse [78] | 7 hectares (17 acres) | Bletchingley 51°15′22″N0°05′53″W / 51.256°N 0.098°W TQ328525 | NO | This ancient semi-natural wood has diverse species of trees and ground flora. Flowering plants include dog's mercury, lesser celandine, yellow archangel, bluebell, enchanter's nightshade, primrose and common dog-violet. [78] | ||
Ledgers Wood [79] | 7 hectares (17 acres) | Chelsham 51°18′54″N0°01′37″W / 51.315°N 0.027°W TQ376592 | YES | This semi-natural wood is mainly oak, with other trees such as silver birch, ash, holly, hawthorn and sweet chestnut. Flowering plants include bluebell, lesser celandine and primrose. [79] | ||
Littlefield Common [80] | 17 hectares (42 acres) | Worplesdon 51°15′50″N0°37′30″W / 51.264°N 0.625°W SU960526 | YES | The common has wet and dry woodland, heath, grassland and ponds, which have a variety of amphibians such as newts, toads and frogs. Flora include common yellow sedge and heath spotted-orchid. [80] | ||
Manor Farm [81] | 25 hectares (62 acres) | Byfleet 51°19′44″N0°28′05″W / 51.329°N 0.468°W TQ068600 | FP | This was part of a deer park in the seventeenth century and in the Second World War the wet meadows next to the River Wey were ploughed as part of the Dig for Victory campaign. The site was then a market garden until 2006. The Trust acquired it in 2009 and is restoring it to its natural state. [81] | ||
Middlebriars Wood [82] | 1 hectare (2.5 acres) | Shackleford 51°12′11″N0°38′13″W / 51.203°N 0.637°W SU953457 | YES | This is a small mixed wood in a residential area of Hurtmore. The trust is working to improve its ecological value. [82] | ||
Milford Green and Coxhill Green [83] | 15 hectares (37 acres) | Chobham 51°20′17″N0°35′13″W / 51.338°N 0.587°W SU985608 | YES | These greens have wet and dry woodland with several ponds. Milford Green is mainly oak with other trees such as silver birch, horse chestnut, sweet chestnut, beech and elm. Coxhill Green is broad-leaved woodland with an area of Scots pine. [83] | ||
Newdigate Brickworks [84] | 24 hectares (59 acres) | Newdigate 51°10′16″N0°16′41″W / 51.171°N 0.278°W TQ205427 | YES | The clay pits of this former brickworks are now lakes and ponds which provide habitats for great crested newts and dragonflies such as the broad-bodied chaser and emperor. Other habitats are woodland, scrub, grassland and marsh and 188 plant species have been recorded. [84] | ||
Norbury Park [85] | 531 hectares (1,310 acres) | Dorking 51°16′19″N0°20′28″W / 51.272°N 0.341°W TQ158538 | YES | RHPG, [86] SAC, [21] SSSI [22] | The park was purchased by Surrey County Council to protect the land from being developed for housing and it is still managed for nature conservation. It has three farms, woodland, calcareous grassland and a stretch of the River Mole. Yew trees in Druid’s Grove are thought by SWT to be almost 3,000 years old. [85] | |
Nower Wood [87] | 33 hectares (82 acres) | Leatherhead 51°16′41″N0°17′24″W / 51.278°N 0.290°W TQ193546 | NO | This is an educational reserve which hosts classrooms and children's events. It is mainly ancient oak woodland with areas of hazel coppice, chalk grassland, heath and artificial ponds which are used for pond dipping. There is a variety of birds such as woodcock and wood warbler. [87] | ||
Nutfield Marshes [88] | 62 hectares (150 acres) | Nutfield 51°14′46″N0°09′07″W / 51.246°N 0.152°W TQ291513 | PP | These former sand quarries along the Redhill Brook are now wetland nature reserves called The Moors, Spynes Mere, and Holmethorpe Lagoons. They provide habitats for many birds, with 144 species recorded in Holmethorpe Lagoon. Spynes Mere has three lakes. [88] | ||
Papercourt Marshes [89] | 10 hectares (25 acres) | Send 51°17′46″N0°31′05″W / 51.296°N 0.518°W TQ034562 | NO | SSSI [90] | This wetland site has standing water scrapes, reed beds, marshes, wet woodland and grassy rides. More than a hundred species of bird have been recorded and the site also has a rich variety of aquatic plants and invertebrates. [89] | |
Poors Allotment [91] | 76 hectares (190 acres) | Camberley 51°21′36″N0°43′34″W / 51.360°N 0.726°W SU888631 | YES | SPA, [11] SSSI [17] | This site got its name because it was set aside under an early 19th century Enclosure Act to allow poor people to gather turf and bracken as fuel. It has heath, acid grassland and woods. Its importance lies in its fauna, such as woodlarks, nightjars, Dartford warblers, adders and several species of butterfly. [91] | |
Priest Hill [92] | 35 hectares (86 acres) | Epsom 51°20′20″N0°14′10″W / 51.339°N 0.236°W TQ230615 | PP | More than 1,500 tons of tarmac and rubble were cleared from these former playing fields to create a grassland nature reserve. Three ponds have been created and cut grass and other plant matter from another reserve has been spread over some areas to introduce the seeds of wild flowers such as kidney vetch. [92] | ||
Pucks Oak Barn and McAlmont Reserves [93] | 4 hectares (9.9 acres) | Guildford 51°12′47″N0°37′59″W / 51.213°N 0.633°W SU956469 | YES | This site is composed of four small woodland reserves, Farncombe Wood, Glebe Wood, Hayden's Copse and Pucks Oak Barn and Orchard. Ground flora include bluebells, wood anemone, ground elder and yellow archangel. [93] | ||
Quarry Hangers [94] | 11 hectares (27 acres) | Caterham 51°15′58″N0°06′50″W / 51.266°N 0.114°W TQ317536 | YES | SSSI [95] | This chalk grassland site has very diverse flora and in some areas there are forty different species in a square metre, such as birdsfoot trefoil, salad burnet, wild strawberry, bee orchid, marjoram and wild thyme. [94] | |
Rodborough Common [96] | 62 hectares (150 acres) | Milford 51°09′54″N0°39′58″W / 51.165°N 0.666°W SU934415 | YES | LNR [97] | Sheep and cattle were grazed on the common in the 19th century, and it was used for military exercises in the Second World War. It has heath, woodland and acid grassland. Flora include greater stitchwort, enchanter's nightshade and germander speedwell, and there are reptiles such as grass snakes, slowworms and common lizards. [96] | |
Runfold Wood [98] | 12 hectares (30 acres) | Farnham 51°12′50″N0°45′25″W / 51.214°N 0.757°W SU869468 | YES | This former beech plantation was badly damaged by the major storms of 1987 and 1990. It is now regenerating naturally as a mixed woodland. It has rare invertebrates, lichens and fungi together with birds such as blackcaps and nuthatches. [98] | ||
Seale Chalk Pit and Meadow [99] | 3 hectares (7.4 acres) | Farnham 51°13′30″N0°42′50″W / 51.225°N 0.714°W SU 899 481 | NO | GCR, [100] SSSI [101] | Part of this former quarry is a geological SSSI which exposes rocks of the Hog’s Back and exhibits the separation of the folding Mesozoic rocks of the Weald from the Tertiary sediments of the London Basin. [102] The site has a variety of butterflies and more than 130 species of chalk grassland plants have been recorded. [99] | |
Shabden Park [103] | 103 hectares (250 acres) | Chipstead 51°17′31″N0°10′30″W / 51.292°N 0.175°W TQ274563 | FP | SSSI [61] | This is a working farm which has wildlfower meadows on chalk grassland together with areas of woodland. It has a nationally scarce species of mining bee and other fauna include Roesel's bush-cricket and a variety of birds and butterflies. [103] | |
Sheepleas [104] | 110 hectares (270 acres) | East Horsley 51°15′07″N0°26′24″W / 51.252°N 0.440°W TQ090515 | YES | GCR, [105] LNR, [106] SSSI [107] | This sloping site on the North Downs has woodland, scrub and botanically rich grassland. The diverse invertebrate fauna includes two nationally rare flies, Norellia spinipes and Microdon devius . A cutting in Mountain Wood exposes a unique gravel Pleistocene deposit which throws light on the Quaternary history of the Weald and the evolution of the London Basin. [108] | |
Sheepwalk Lake [109] | 9 hectares (22 acres) | Shepperton 51°23′46″N0°27′47″W / 51.396°N 0.463°W TQ070675 | YES | This former gravel pit was allowed to flood, unlike many others in the area which were used for landfill sites. It is used by more than 100 species of resident and migratory birds, including, kingfishers, herons, tufted ducks, moorhens, coots, cormorants and great crested grebes. [109] | ||
Stringer's Common [110] | 30 hectares (74 acres) | Guildford 51°16′05″N0°34′55″W / 51.268°N 0.582°W SU990530 | YES | This is one of eight commons in the parish of Worplesdon near Guildford. It was formerly used for grazing, but it is now mainly mixed woodland with some heath and grassland. [110] | ||
Thorpe Hay Meadow [111] | 6 hectares (15 acres) | Egham 51°25′12″N0°31′12″W / 51.420°N 0.520°W TQ030700 | YES | SSSI [112] | This hay meadow in the flood plain on alluvial gravels of the River Thames has plants which thrive in lime-rich soil. It is surrounded by mature hedgerows and a drainage ditch has five species of willow, including purple willow and almond willow. [113] | |
Thundry Meadows [114] | 16 hectares (40 acres) | Elstead 51°11′20″N0°43′16″W / 51.189°N 0.721°W SU895441 | YES | SSSI [115] | This site on the north bank of the River Wey grassland has alder carr, wet and dry woodland, ditches and springs. The meadows are maintained by Belted Galloway cattle, providing suitable conditions for harvest mice. An unusual habitat is quaking mire, a mat of vegetation floating on liquid peat. [114] | |
Tilburstow Hill [116] | 9 hectares (22 acres) | Godstone 51°14′02″N0°04′08″W / 51.234°N 0.069°W TQ349501 | YES | This is a semi-natural broadleaved wood on the Greensand Ridge, with sweet chestnut, sessile and pedunculate oak, beech, silver birch and hazel. Ground flora include dog's mercury and garlic mustard. [116] | ||
Underdown [117] | 1 hectare (2.5 acres) | Farnham 51°11′35″N0°48′40″W / 51.193°N 0.811°W SU832444 | YES | This reserve was donated to the Trust by Mrs Underdown in memory of her husband in 1987. It is a steeply sloping area of gorse and heather together with mixed woodland. There is a variety of invertebrates, including solitary wasps. [117] | ||
Vann Lake and Candy's Copse [118] | 11 hectares (27 acres) | Ockley 51°08′31″N0°20′49″W / 51.142°N 0.347°W TQ157394 | YES | SSSI [119] | The lake is believed to date to the middle of the 18th century, when a stream was dammed to power a mill which was never built. It is surrounded by ancient wet and dry woodland on Weald clay. Over 900 species of fungi have been recorded, including six new to Britain, and one, Myarium crystallinum , never previously recorded. The stream has a nationally rare cranefly, Molophilus lackschewitzianus . [118] | |
Wallis Wood [120] | 14 hectares (35 acres) | Dorking 51°08′17″N0°23′56″W / 51.138°N 0.399°W TQ121389 | YES | A stream runs through this woodland reserve, which has an area of meadow pasture on its bank. Woodland flora include bluebells, broad-leaved helleborine orchids, violet helleborine orchids, common spotted orchids, primroses and wood anemone. There is a rare spider, Hyptiotes paradoxus , which lives in yew trees and is only found in one other site in the county. [120] | ||
Whitmoor and Rickford Commons [121] | 183 hectares (450 acres) | Guildford 51°15′58″N0°35′38″W / 51.266°N 0.594°W SU982529 | YES | LNR, [122] SPA, [11] SSSI [123] | This site on the heath of the London Basin has a variety of heathland habitats, as well as areas of woodland, meadow and still and running water. The heath has a nationally scarce spider, Oxyopes heterophthalmus and beetle Hyperaspis pseudopustulata and there are nationally important populations of several bird species. [124] | |
Wisley and Ockham Commons and Chatley Heath [125] | 297 hectares (730 acres) | Wisley 51°19′12″N0°27′07″W / 51.320°N 0.452°W TQ080590 | YES | LNR, [126] SPA, [11] SSSI [127] | This site is mainly heathland but it also has areas of open water, bog, woodland and scrub. It has a rich flora and it is of national importance for true flies and for dragonflies and damselflies. Rare species include the white-faced darter dragonfly and the Thyridanthrax fenestratus bee fly. [128] |
The Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT) is one of 46 wildlife trusts covering Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Alderney. Founded in 1926, it is the oldest of all the trusts. It has over 35,500 members and eight local groups and it manages more than fifty nature reserves and other protected sites. It also gives conservation advice to individuals and organisations, provides educational services to young people on field trips and organises entertainment and information events at nature reserves. The NWT reserves include twenty-six Sites of Special Scientific Interests, nine national nature reserves, twelve Nature Conservation Review sites, sixteen Special Areas of Conservation, twelve Special Protection Areas, eleven Ramsar sites, two local nature reserves, four Geological Conservation Review sites and five which are in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Chobham Common is a 655.7-hectare (1,620-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chobham in Surrey. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and a national nature reserve. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham Special Area of Conservation. It contains three scheduled monuments. Most of the site is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust as the Chobham Common nature reserve, but the SSSI also includes a small private reserve managed by the Trust, Gracious Pond.
Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT) is a conservation charity in the United Kingdom that was founded in 1958, previously known as the Kent Trust for Nature Conservation. It aims to "work with people to restore, save and improve our natural spaces" and to "ensure that 30% of Kent and Medway – land and sea – is managed to create a healthy place for wildlife to flourish". In 2023, they have reported over 30,000 members and an annual income of £8 million. KWT manages over ninety nature reserves in Kent, of which thirty-seven are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, three are national nature reserves, five are Special Areas of Conservation, four are Special Protection Areas, six are local nature reserves, thirty-eight are in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and one is a scheduled monument.
Suffolk Wildlife Trust (SWT) describes itself as the county's "nature charity – the only organisation dedicated wholly to safeguarding Suffolk's wildlife and countryside." It is a registered charity, and its headquarters is at Brooke House in Ashbocking, near Ipswich. It was founded in 1961, and is one of 46 wildlife trusts covering the Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As of March 2017, it has 13,200 members, and it manages 3,120 hectares of land in 60 nature reserves, most of which are open to the public. It had an income of £3.9 million in the year to 31 March 2017.
The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT), is a wildlife trust covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in England.
Ash to Brookwood Heaths is a 1,576.3-hectare (3,895-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Guildford in Surrey. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham Special Area of Conservation. An area of 1,392 hectares is managed as a nature reserve by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths is a 1,696.3-hectare (4,192-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Berkshire and Surrey that extend from a minority of the parish of Crowthorne including around Broadmoor Hospital in the west to Bagshot south-east, Bracknell north-east, and Sandhurst, south. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area. Two nature reserves which are managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust are in the SSSI, Barossa nature reserve and Poors Allotment. Broadmoor Bottom, which is part of Wildmoor Heath, also falls within the SSSI; this reserve is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Colony Bog and Bagshot Heath is a 1,130.5-hectare (2,794-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Camberley and Woking in Surrey, England. Part of it is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham Special Area of Conservation. It includes Brentmoor Heath, a Local Nature Reserve which is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust
Blindley Heath SSSI is a 26.3-hectare (65-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the hamlet Blindley Heath, on the southern outskirts of Godstone in Surrey. It is also a Local Nature Reserve. It is owned by Godstone Parish Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust
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. Thursley and Hankley Commons are Nature Conservation Review sites, Grade I. An area of 115.1 hectares is a local nature reserve called The Flashes and an area of 180 hectares is the Elstead Group of Commons, a nature reserve managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. Thursley Common is a national nature reserve. An area of 265.7 hectares is the Thursley & Ockley Bogs Ramsar site. The site is a Special Protection Area and part of the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright & Chobham Special Area of Conservation.
Bisley and West End Commons is a 37.2-hectare (92-acre) Local Nature Reserve west of Woking in Surrey. It is part of the 46-hectare (110-acre) Bisley & West End Commons and Reidon Hill nature reserve, which is owned by Surrey County Council and managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust. The site is also part of the Colony Bog and Bagshot Heath Site of Special Scientific Interest, the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright & Chobham Special Area of Conservation and the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area,
Brentmoor Heath is a 28.6-hectare (71-acre) Local Nature Reserve east of Camberley in Surrey. It is part of Brentmoor Heath and Folly Bog nature reserve, the ownership of which is divided between the Ministry of Defence, Surrey County Council and Surrey Heath Borough Council, and is managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust. The site is also part of Colony Bog and Bagshot Heath site of Special Scientific Interest, Thursley, Ash, Pirbright & Chobham Special Area of Conservation and Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.
The Flashes is a 115.1-hectare (284-acre) Local Nature Reserve west of Godalming in Surrey. It is owned by the National Trust and managed by Waverley Borough Council. It is part of Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Thursley, Ash, Pirbright & Chobham Special Area of Conservation and Thursley, Hankley & Frensham Commons Special Protection Area,
Gracious Pond is a 14-hectare (35-acre) nature reserve in Chobham in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. It is part of Chobham Common Site of Special Scientific Interest.