New maps released as part of plans to expand the Surrey Hills boundary by a quarter have revealed which areas of the county could soon be included in the enlarged Area of Natural Beauty (AONB).

Natural England wants to designate another 100 sq km (62 sq miles) into Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). A public consultation exercise will run for 14 weeks, until 13 June.

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A society is being set up to protect the downland countryside A society is being set up to safeguard downland that was one of the first landscapes to be protected as an Area of Outstanding Natural ...

Rob Fairbanks, Surrey Hills AONB officer, highlighted the work with the region's ... the new access rights to open country come into effect, following the work to map all heath, down and registered ...

As everybody knows, the excursion infamously deteriorated into ‘a want of spirits’ — but the picnickers’ instinctive reaction to the spectacular view from this point in the Surrey Hills AONB is ...