Floor Sanding Surrey

What is the most wooded English county? Surprise, surprise. Despite the encroachment of Greater London, Surrey takes the prize with 20% of its area under sylvan cover.

This varies from the birches of the northwest heathlands around Bagshot and Camberley to the famous beech hangers on the North Downs at Box Hill.

Perhaps the rewarding area is in the southwest where the clay soils of the Weald around the Surrey/Sussex border are perfect for ancient woodlands. Almost hidden away in the deepest woods are the small villages of Alfold, Dunsfold and Chiddingfold. Remarkably remote even today, this was a premier centre for medieval iron smelting – the timber providing an abundance of charcoal.

In the heart of the county, Nower Wood near Leatherhead has been an education centre for over forty years – introducing hundreds of schoolchildren to the insect, plant, bird and animal wonders hidden within our woods. This Surrey Wildlife Trust reserve is only open to the public on open days.

Further east, south of Oxted, Staffhurst Wood has survived its use as a WW2 arms dump – and its mixed ancient woodland of oak, ash, beech and hornbeam provide a home to a rich diversity of wildlife..

Ashtead Common near Epsom – owned by the City of London Corporation – is a national nature reserve. The star attraction is its grand collection of 2300 gnarled, pollarded oaks – hundreds of years old and still going strong.

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