• Riverside Garden Park in Horley – sandwiched between residential streets and Gatwick Airport, it’s home to wonderful scenery, a tranquil pond and mature trees
• Stagbury Downs – part of the North Downs and grazed by cattle and sheep to help conserve the area’s rare and special habitat
• Banstead Wildlife Field – developed as an environmental education site, fully accessible for wheelchair and buggy users, it’s a great place if you enjoy birdsong, and butterflies
• Nork Park – a compelling combination of fascinating history, diverse habitats and outstanding views across London  
• Earlswood Common – a nature reserve, where fishing is allowed on the lower lake and the upper lake is maintained as an undisturbed, tranquil wildlife haven.

Walk this way …

You may prefer to explore the great outdoors with the help of knowledgeable local guides. If so, download our Guided Walks programme. Our Countryside Rangers and some of the voluntary organisations we work with host guided walks. Here are a handful of this summers’:

• Bat walk at Earlswood Lakes – 8.15pm, Thursday 28 August
• Nature reserves walk (run by Surrey Wildlife Trust) – 11am, Sunday 31 August
• Reigate Heath, a tour of the purple heather on the heath at is best – 2.30pm, Tuesday 2 September
• Bat walk in Reigate’s Priory Park – 7.45pm Tuesday, 9 September.

See our Guide for meeting point details and detailed information on each event.