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Scenic Walking Area Attractions In Surrey

  • 1. Penton Hook Island Staines
    Penton Hook Lock is the sixth lowest lock of forty four on the non-tidal reaches of the River Thames in England. It faces an island which was until its construction a pronounced meander and is on the site of its seasonal cutoff. It is against the left bank marking the church parish medieval border of Laleham and Staines upon Thames in Surrey for many centuries. Until 1965 their county was Middlesex. At 266 ft it is the third longest lock on the river. A bend 900 m upstream of the lock, Silver Sands, hosts Staines Regatta in the sport of rowing annually. On the opposite bank in Thorpe is Penton Hook Marina which occupies lakes once land used for gravel extraction.
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  • 4. Pyrford Lock Woking
    Pyrford is a village in the borough of Woking in Surrey, England. It is on the left bank of the River Wey, around 2 miles east of the town of Woking and just south of West Byfleet; the M25 motorway is north-east of the edge of the former parish. The village sits on raised mixed heath soil, and has historical links with the abbey at Westminster, in whose possession it remained between the Norman conquest in 1066 and the Dissolution of the Monasteries nearly five hundred years later.
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  • 5. Headley Heath Headley
    Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court , formerly RAF Headley Court, is an 85-acre United Kingdom Ministry of Defence facility in Headley, near Epsom, Surrey, England. It is used as a rehabilitation centre for injured members of the British Armed Forces.
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  • 7. New Haw Lock Addlestone
    New Haw is a residential and part-nature reserve village in Surrey, England situated 20 miles southwest by west of London which has a minor railway station on the South Western Main Line shared with Byfleet. The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, an executive agency of DEFRA, has its central laboratories in a semi-rural part of New Haw. The laboratory is notable as being one of the principal test centres for the H5N1 virus.
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  • 9. Ripley Green Ripley Surrey England
    Ripley is a village in Surrey, England. The village has existed since Norman times – the chancel of the church of St. Mary Magdalen shows construction of circa 1160 there and supporting feet of fines and ecclesiastical records mention the village at the time. Ripley's sister village of Send to the south-west was the governing parish over the village for over 700 years until 1878 when they became two separate ecclesiastical parishes; they became separate civil parishes in 1933. Lying on the main road from London to Portsmouth , Ripley was the post town for the whole area from 1813 to 1865. With the coming of the railway to what was then Woking Common in 1838, Ripley's importance diminished, and Woking became its post town in 1865. As motor traffic increased during the 1960s and the 1970s,...
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