Winterfold Forest
Winterfold Forestis a wooded area of the broadest plateau of the westernGreensand RidgeinSurrey,England.It blends seamlessly into theHurt WoodorHurtwood.
Geography
[edit]Hurt Wood is that part of the forest in greaterShereparish and associated withPeaslakeand the other even smaller southern settlements of that parish traditionally defined as "hamlets".Otherwise the forest has many footpaths and bridleways and the springs that are the sources of streams including ofCranleigh Waters,but being mainly of Greensand soil, which is chiefly a form ofsandstonewhich is permeable and underlain by in most places a layer of gravel and flint stones followed by clay. The soil where most sandy supports pineferous trees, gorse, bracken, ferns and fungi only.[1]
It includes the fifth and sixth highest points in Surrey, in the highest and most wooded part of the parish of Ewhurst, Pitch Hill and The Warren, at 257 and 251 metres above sea level respectively.[2]
Its nearest settlements other than the most remote smallholdings and woodland cottages of Shere areFarley GreenandEwhurst.
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51°11′N0°28′W/ 51.18°N 0.47°W
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