Underdown | |
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Type | Nature reserve |
Location | Farnham, Surrey |
OS grid | SU 832 444 |
Area | 1 hectare (2.5 acres) |
Managed by | Surrey Wildlife Trust |
Underdown is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) nature reserve in Farnham in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. [1]
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. [1]
There is access by a footpath from Sandrock Hill Road.
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 of land for wildlife and employs more than 100 staff. It had an income of £5.1 million and expenditure of £5.7 million.
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