Blindley Heath SSSI

Blindley Heath SSSI is a 26.3-hectare (65-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the hamlet Blindley Heath, on the southern outskirts of Godstone in Surrey.[1][2] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.[3][4] It is owned by Godstone Parish Council and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust[5]

Blindley Heath
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Surrey
Grid reference	TQ 367 448[1]
Interest	Biological
Area	26.3 hectares (65 acres)[1]
Notification	1984[1]
Location map	Magic Map

This damp grassland site on Weald Clay has a rich flora. There are also a number of ponds and a stretch of the Ray Brook runs through the heath. The grassland is dominated by tussock grass and there are scattered oaks, hawthorns, willows and blackthorns.[6]

There is access from Ray Lane.

References

"Designated Sites View: Blindley Heath". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
"Map of Blindley Heath". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
"Designated Sites View: Blindley Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
"Map of Blindley Heath". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
"Blindley Heath". Surrey Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
"Blindley Heath citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 3 November 2018.

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Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey

Biological

Geological

Local Nature Reserves in Surrey
Elmbridge	Claygate Common Esher Common Molesey Heath Stokes Field West End Common
Epsom and Ewell	Epsom Common Hogsmill Horton Country Park
Guildford	Chinthurst Hill Fox Corner Wildlife Area Hackhurst Downs Lakeside Park Ockham and Wisley Pewley Down Riverside Park Rowhill Copse Sheepleas Shere Woodlands Snaky Lane Community Wildlife Area Whitmoor and Rickford Commons
Mole Valley	Ashtead Park Edolph's Copse Inholms Clay Pit River Mole
Reigate and Banstead	Earlswood Common Reigate Heath
Runnymede	Chertsey Meads Riverside Walk, Virginia Water
Surrey Heath	Bisley and West End Commons Brentmoor Heath
Tandridge	Blanchman's Farm Blindley Heath Centenary Fields Hill Park, Tatsfield Lingfield Wildlife Area Nore Hill Pinnacle Staffhurst Wood, Lingfield
Waverley	Farnham Park The Flashes Rodborough Common Sayer's Croft Weybourne
Woking	Mayford Meadows White Rose Lane

Surrey Wildlife Trust
Croydon	Dollypers Hill
Epsom and Ewell	Howell Hill Priest Hill
Guildford	Ash Ranges Broadstreet, Backside and Rydes Commons Burner's Heath and Swallows Pond Chinthurst Hill Chitty's Common Colekitchen Down The Forest and the Highlands Hackhurst Downs Littlefield Common Middlebriars Wood Newlands Corner Papercourt Marshes Pucks Oak Barn and McAlmont Reserves Puttenham Common Sheepleas Shere Woodlands St Martha's Hill and Colyer's Hanger Stringer's Common Whitmoor and Rickford Commons Wisley and Ockham Commons and Chatley Heath
Mole Valley	Ashtead Park Betchworth Quarry and Lime Kilns Brockham Limeworks Deepdene Terrace Fraser Down Glory Wood and Devil's Den Milton Heath and The Nower Newdigate Brickworks Norbury Park Nower Wood Vann Lake and Candy's Copse Wallis Wood White Downs Wotton and Abinger Commons
Reigate and Banstead	Dawcombe Fames Rough Nutfield Marshes Shabden Park
Runnymede	Thorpe Hay Meadow
Spelthorne	Sheepwalk Lake
Surrey Heath	Barossa Bisley and West End Commons and Reidon Hill Brentmoor Heath and Folly Bog Chobham Common Gracious Pond Milford Green and Coxhill Green Poors Allotment
Tandridge	Bay Pond Blindley Heath Graeme Hendrey Wood Hedgecourt Hill Park Kitchen Copse Ledgers Wood Quarry Hangers Staffhurst Wood Tilburstow Hill
Waverley	Crooksbury Hill Cucknell's Wood Elstead Group of Commons Rodborough Common Runfold Wood Seale Chalk Pit and Meadow Thundry Meadows Underdown
Woking	Brookwood Lye Manor Farm

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