Horsell Common

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox SSSI Horsell Common is a Script error: No such module "convert". open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society.[1] An area of Script error: No such module "convert". is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest[2][3] and part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.[4]

In the south-east corner of the common is the former Muslim Burial Ground, now an Islamic Peace Garden. There are Bronze Age barrows, protected heathland and thousands of trees. There are parts of the common all over Horsell, isolated from the rest of the common by roads. There is a large amount of wildlife on the common.

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The Muslim Burial Ground

The Sandpit area was the location of the first Martian landing in the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds (1897) .[5]

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  5. The Sandpit, Horsell Common Preservation Society

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