Milton Heath And The Nower
Milton Heath and The Nower is a nature reserve west of Dorking in Surrey. It is owned by Mole Valley District Council. This site has woodland, heath and grassland. Birds include European green woodpecker, green woodpeckers, great spotted woodpeckers, tawny owls, Sitta europaea, nuthatches and Certhia familiaris, treecreepers. There is access from Westcott Road. Nature reserves in Surrey Mole Valley {{surrey-geo-stub ...
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Dorking
Dorking () is a market town in Surrey in South East England, about south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre. The High Street runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Pipp Brook and along the northern face of an outcrop of Lower Greensand. The town is surrounded on three sides by the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is close to Box Hill and Leith Hill. The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity is from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, and there are several Bronze Age bowl barrows in the local area. The town may have been the site of a staging post on Stane Street during Roman times, however the name 'Dorking' suggests an Anglo-Saxon origin for the modern settlement. A market is thought to have been held at least weekly since early medieval times and was highly regarded for the poultry traded there. The Dorking breed of domestic chicken is named after the town. The loca ...
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