Westwood Common

Westwood Common is a locality in Leigh, Mole Valley, England. Westwood Common is situated nearby to the locality Bunce Common, as well as near the hamlet Brockham Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Inholms Clay Pit and Holmwood railway station.

Inholms Clay Pit

Nature reserve

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Inholms Clay Pit is a 8.4-hectare Local Nature Reserve south of Dorking in Surrey. It is owned by Mole Valley District Council and from 2009 - 2019 was managed by Surrey Wildlife Trust and since then by Mole Valley District Council. Inholms Clay Pit is situated 1½ miles west of Westwood Common.

Holmwood railway station

Railway station

Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holmwood railway station serves the villages of Beare Green and South Holmwood in Surrey, England, on the Sutton and Mole Valley Lines between Dorking and Horsham, 27 miles 5 chains from London Waterloo. Holmwood railway station is situated 2 miles southwest of Westwood Common.

Newdigate Brickworks

Nature reserve

Photo: Dan Gregory, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Newdigate Brickworks is a 24-hectare nature reserve in Newdigate in Surrey, England. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. The clay pits of this former brickworks are now lakes and ponds which provide habitats for great crested newts and dragonflies such as the broad-bodied chaser and emperor. Newdigate Brickworks is situated 2½ miles south of Westwood Common.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Holmwood and Goodwyns.

North Holmwood

Village

Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.

North Holmwood is a residential area on the outskirts of Dorking, in Surrey, England. The village is accessible from the A24, the village's historic heart is the road Spook Hill. North Holmwood is situated 2 miles west of Westwood Common.

Goodwyns

Neighborhood

Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, CC0.

Goodwyns is a housing estate in Dorking, a market town in Surrey, England. It is on the return slope of one of two hillsides of the town and adjoins North Holmwood, a green-buffered village. The town centre is about 1.7 miles away. Goodwyns is situated 2 miles northwest of Westwood Common.

Dorking

Photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dorking is a small market town in central Surrey, surrounded by the Surrey Hills. The town is surrounded on three sides by the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is close to Box Hill and Leith Hill.

Westwood Common

Type: Locality
Location: Leigh, Mole Valley, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.20326° or 51° 12′ 12″ north

Longitude

-0.28356° or 0° 17′ 1″ west

Open location code

9C3X6P38+8H

OpenStreetMap ID

node 297949705

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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