Sandhills is a small hamlet located between the villages of
Wormley and
Brook
Brook may refer to:
Computing
*Brook, a programming language for GPU programming based on C
*Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler
*BrookGPU, a framework for GPGPU programming
People
* Brook (surname)
*People with the given name Brook, ...
, in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of Witley and Milford, in the
Waverley district, in the county of
Surrey
Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...
, England.
[Wilcox, Scott. Newall, Christopher; eds. Victorian Landscape Watercolours. 1992. Yale Center for British Art. p. 177] It is part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Beauty and situated on the
Greensand Way
The Greensand Way is a long-distance path of in southeast England, from Haslemere in Surrey to Hamstreet in Kent. It follows the Greensand Ridge along the Surrey Hills AONB, Surrey Hills and Chart Hills. The route is mostly rural, passing thr ...
.
There is a common owned by the
National Trust
The National Trust () is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the ...
, and a
Donkey
The donkey or ass is a domesticated equine. It derives from the African wild ass, ''Equus africanus'', and may be classified either as a subspecies thereof, ''Equus africanus asinus'', or as a separate species, ''Equus asinus''. It was domes ...
sanctuary, founded by John and Kay Lockwood in the 1950s and now operated by the RSPCA.
[http://www.rspca.org.uk/local/lockwood-centre-for-horses-and-donkeys/ ccessed 19 August 2014/ref>
]
References
Hamlets in Surrey
Borough of Waverley
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