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Effingham Forest - Honeysuckle Bottom

Nearest town: Guildford

Site type: woodland

Access: Public

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County: Surrey

Country: England

Grid ref: TQ09325025

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 5-Aug-12

Recorded by: Peter Norton

Protection & responsibility: Landowner

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 5m-7m

Notes: This site is also known as Netley Heath. The Sheepleas and Mountain Wood combine to create a larger woodland block with Effingham Forest to the east, separated by Honeysuckle Bottom, a road following a Combe valley. The Mountain Wood area is the far eastern tip of the Netley Heath Beds, which are sand and gravel with some lower Greensand. At Effingham is also found a 'Yew Walk', planted during the early part of the 19th century. The avenue was part of the Lovelace Estate and the path that it is found on leads over a bridleway and into Box Walk.