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Horsell Common

Site of Special Scientific Interest
Location	Surrey
Grid reference	TQ 002 606
Interest	Biological
Area	152.0 hectares (376 acres)
Notification	1986
Location map	Magic Map

Horsell Common is a 355-hectare (880-acre) open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society. An area of 152 hectares (380 acres) is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.

In the south-east corner of the common is the former Muslim Burial Ground, now an Islamic Peace Garden. There are Bronze Age barrows, protected heathland and thousands of trees. There are parts of the common all over Horsell, isolated from the rest of the common by roads. There is a large amount of wildlife on the common.

The Sandpit area was the location of the first Martian landing in the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds (1897) .

References

1. ^ "Designated Sites View: Horsell Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
2. "200 Years of Horsell Common". Horsell Common Preservation Society. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
3. "Map of Horsell Common". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
4. "Designated Sites View: Thames Basin Heaths". Special Protection Areas. Natural England. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
5. The Sandpit, Horsell Common Preservation Society

External links

• Horsell Common, Horsell Common Preservation Society
• Surrey County Council map of SSSIs

51°20′9″N 0°32′54″W / 51.33583°N 0.54833°W / 51.33583; -0.54833

v t e Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey
Biological	Ash to Brookwood Heaths Banstead Downs Basingstoke Canal Blackheath Blindley Heath Bookham Commons Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths Charleshill Charterhouse to Eashing Chiddingfold Forest Chipstead Downs Chobham Common Colony Bog and Bagshot Heath Colyers Hanger Combe Bottom Devil's Punch Bowl Dumsey Meadow Epsom and Ashtead Commons Esher Commons Glover's Wood Godstone Ponds Gong Hill Hackhurst and White Downs Hankley Farm Hedgecourt Horsell Common Kempton Park Reservoirs Knight and Bessborough Reservoirs Langham Pond Leith Hill Lingfield Cernes Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment Moor Park Ockham and Wisley Commons Papercourt Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons Quarry Hangers Ranmore Common Reigate Heath Sheepleas Smart's and Prey Heaths Staffhurst Wood Staines Moor Stones Road Pond Thorpe Hay Meadow Thorpe Park No 1 Gravel Pit Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons Titsey Woods Vann Lake and Ockley Woods Wey Valley Meadows Whitmoor Common Windsor Forest and Great Park Woldingham and Oxted Downs Wraysbury Reservoir
Geological	Auclaye Brook Brick Pit Clock House Brickworks Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment Netherside Stream Outcrops Seale Chalk Pit Sheepleas Smokejack Clay Pit Stockstone Quarry Upper Common Pits

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Towns, villages and hamlets	Brookwood Byfleet Castle Green Goldsworth Park Horsell Knaphill Mayford Mimbridge Old Woking Pyrford Sheerwater Sutton Green Westfield West Byfleet
Parks	Horsell Common Westfield Common Woking Park
Places of worship	All Souls' Church, Sutton Green Christ Church, Woking Church of St Andrew, Goldsworth Park Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood Church of St Mary the Virgin, Horsell St Dunstan's Church, Woking St John's Church, Woking St Mark's Church, Woking St Peter's Church, Old Woking Shah Jahan Mosque
Education	Bishop David Brown School Hoe Valley School St John the Baptist School, Woking Tante Marie The Winston Churchill School, Woking Woking College Woking High School
Transport	Brookwood railway station Byfleet & New Haw railway station West Byfleet railway station Woking railway station
Buildings and structures	Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Hospital Civic Offices Export House Kingfield Stadium McLaren Technology Centre Newark Priory New Victoria Theatre Rhoda McGaw Theatre Sutton Place Victoria Place Victoria Square Woking Crematorium
Sport	Football Knaphill F.C. Sheerwater F.C. Westfield F.C. Woking F.C. Hockey Woking Hockey Club
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