Finding your way

FRIDAY STREET around the P Broadmoor Car Park Henman Bunkhouse Stephan Langton - BROADMOOR Leith Hill Estate Public House

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a Reigate’ and ‘OS Landranger Map: 187 – Dorking, y H Reigate & Crawley’ will show all the available Duke’s Warren I The Plough - routes in the area. Public House

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se La COLDHARBOUR If you prefer, here are 4 waymarked nature trails g r e Play e Area that pass through or near several car parks: n Sheephou s a n d w B J r o a o T he Woodland Trail (orange) y F m e The woodland trail offers a lovely walk at all times of year with autumn being h

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hours. It is our longest trail and will take you through parts of the original e a i estate and woodland. t d h P Landslip Car Park H i l Leith Hill Tower l L  a The Etherley Farm Loop (purple) n e The loop will add an additional 1.5 miles to the woodland trail, taking you across a landscape of farmland and parkland. This hour long walk is graded as Starveall Corner Car Park P ‘easy’ but can become very muddy underfoot, if wet. Frank’s Wood Arboretum ay L T he Heathland Trail (green) and w eens The heathland trail takes you on a journey through the high, sandy, open P gr M heath of Duke’s Warren. Graded as ‘easy’ the 1.75 mile long route does have some steep parts and will take apporximately an hour to complete. The trail greensand will take you through a landscape of heather, bracken, bilberry, gorse, pine way P and birch. P What to look out for a d WindyWindy Gap Gap Car Car Park Park R o Frank’s Walk (pink) g e r A b i n A L ime Avenue The Warren now supports communities of This walk guides you to the historic arboretum, through the conifer avenue & Walled Garden Nightjars, Woodlarks and other heathland and into Frank’s Wood with it’s spectacular spring display of bluebells. Graded Rhododendron Wood Car Park P An extensive formal garden was once a specialists. as ‘easy’ the walk is our shortest at 1 mile long and should take around half an notable feature of the estate. A decorative e H Boundary banks hour to complete. There are some steep slopes, steps and muddy patches. n Rhododendron Leith Hill Place Wood Lime Avenue and a walled garden which a L Wood provided a plentiful supply of fruit and Layered beech hedges line many of the

Ta n h u r s t vegetables for Leith Hill Place. holloways in the surrounding landscape. Originally planted to protect plantations Greensand Way B Hazel coppice from deer and grazing livestock, they were The Greensand Way is a long distance walking route that starts in As well as providing pea and bean sticks, the abandoned for many decades and have Haslemere, Surrey and ends at Hamstreet, Kent. It follows the Greensand cut shoots of the hazel are split then woven since grown to an enormous size. Ridge along the Surrey Hills and crosses Leith Hill. If you would like to A into fencing panels known as hurdles. The know more and download maps, please visit Surrey County Council’s hazel regrowth is cut on a six to seven year I Coldharbour Cricket Pitch cycle, providing a diverse range of habitats Located below the summit of Leith Hill, website. E L e Coldharbour Cricket Pitch is thought to i for a variety of wildlife. Leith Hill Place t

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H C Etherley Farm England. The turves that form the wicket

i l Sympathetic management of the farmland were transplanted from the original pitch in l provides a pastoral landscape that is rich in the heart of Coldharbour during the 1940s. L a wildlife. Animals graze the fields, hedgerows n

e have been replanted and hay meadows have J Stone pits been reinstated to encourage farmland Sandstone was used in the area to build Church Wood birds such as Skylarks and Barn Owls. boundary walls and surface tracks. Quarrying sandstone until the early part D Parkland of the last century has left the woodland B Mature parkland trees provide a home for around Leith Hill pitted with hollows and Holmbury La D a rich variety of native wildlife, including gullies. Little Owls, bats, rare lichens and many dead wood insects such as Stag Beetles. K Dakota crash In winter 1944, four US airforce Douglas E Darwin’s wormstone Dakota aircraft crashed into the hillside C Here lies one of Charles Darwin’s worm above Mosses Wood, with no survivors. ne stones. The famous naturalist made The first crash saw two aircraft hit the numerous trips to Leith Hill conducting ridge whilst a third belly-flopped onto P research around the estate with his Duke’s Warren. A few weeks later, tragedy neices. Darwin studied how worm casts struck again when another Dakota crashed Etherley Copse Car Park Etherley Farm will eventually bury stones that lie on the in almost exactly the same place. surface of the ground. a d L Piggot-Brown gate l e y R o O c k F Tillingbourne source Mosses Wood was given to the National Natural springs rise to form the Trust by Lady Piggot-Brown in memory Tillingbourne Stream that flows west of her son who was killed in action on towards Abinger, on through Gomshall to Christmas Day, 1942. A plaque attached Albury and joins the River Wey at Guildford. to the gate commemorates his life. FOREST GREEN It’s flow was harnessed in past centuries to power local industry such as Shalford Mill. M Frank’s Wood Named after National Trust woodsman, Frank Longhurst, the oak trees were The Parrot - G Heathland planted in 1949. He planted three acorns Public House Duke’s Warren was once part of the for each hole. One for the mice. One to extensive woodland that surrounds the fail. And, one to grow into a beautiful oak. heath, but deforestation after the first In spring the woodland floor is covered world war changed the area to an open with bluebells. landscape of heather, bracken, bilberry and gorse with stands of pine and birch.