Netley Heath is an area of woods and heathland in the parish of Shere close to

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. It is part of a larger geological stratum across parts of the South East, the "Netley Heath Beds". From 1795 to 1815 Netley Heath was the site of an Admiralty shutter telegraph station on the line from London to Portsmouth. Netley Heath - geograph

Land use

The woodland contains deciduous and coniferous trees — charcoal burning was carried out in the area from timbers with evidence of kilns for the charcoal product to be incinerated at high temperature.

Geology and fossils

It is part of a larger geological stratum across parts of the South East, the "Netley Heath Beds". Fossils from the

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( Lower Pleistocene) age have been found in deposits at Netley Heath. This is taken as evidence that marine deposits of the

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age were once deposited over the chalk.The geology of the county of Surrey

References

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