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Dist:0.1km<br/>One of a small group of cottages hidden in the depths of Holmwood Common.
©Andy Potter
Dist:0.2km<br/>Frosty hillside on Holmwood Common
©Martyn Davies
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of many small patches of bluebells on wooded Holmwood Common.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>Mix of deciduous trees and open grassland. Here broom and bluebells are in bloom.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking West towards Redlands Wood
©Martyn Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>Good walking country with a dense network of paths on the wooded common.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>Bench in a clearing on top of wooded Holmwood Common. From here there are views to the north - to the high rise flats in southern Dorking and the North Downs.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is one of a number of car parks around the common managed by the National Trust. A footpath passes through the trees at the right of shot and leads down to [[650139]].
©Andy Potter
Dist:0.4km<br/>The "dead hedge" has been planted in an area of cleared birch trees in an effort to provide a good habitat for small woodland animals. Thorn has been planted to replace the birch trees in this patch of Holmwood Common.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>Patch of blooming bluebells on the grassy clearing at the Holmwood Common viewpoint.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.4km<br/>The National Trust has provided several small bridges over the several streams and drains crossed by the network of paths on the common.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of the ancient Manor of Dorking, Holmwood Common was owned by King Harold before the Norman Conquest. Until the 19th-century the common was woodland. This changed when commoners began to use it for turf, timber and grazing, slowly transforming it into wood pasture. Some ancient oaks still survive today - almost 200 years on. In the 1920s commoning began to dwindle and the grassland returned to woodland.
©Pip Rolls
Dist:0.5km<br/>Birch has been thinned and thorn planted in its place.
©Colin Smith
Dist:0.5km<br/>Built in 1903 on the site of two ancient cottages to a design by Arnold Dunbar Smith for Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pethick_Lawrence as a country home for Emmeline Pethick Lawrence’s Esperance club for working class London girls. It was subsequently owned/occupied by author and journalist John Langdon-Davies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langdon-Davies, founder of PLAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_(aid_organisation). A sundial reading the motto, ‘Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours’ is on the south-east facing wall.
©Andy Potter
Dist:0.5km<br/>Something of a feature of the A24 at Holmwood the sign over the door says "The Holly & Laurel Emporium". Suppliers of "new and reclaimed Stoves, Fireplaces, Gas Fires, Accessories and Flue Pipes" "together with a wide range of landscape furniture and other items of Architectural Salvage". See their website http://www.dorkingstoves.com for more information. Previously the Laurel and Holly Hotel it also looks a likely candidate for the Sawyers Arms, marked on the 1873 map.
©Andy Potter

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