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Would it be on? Would be off?  As the “Beast from East”, Siberian weather battered the UK in the week running up to The Surrey Hills Society Free monthly walk for March, this was the topic of debate among organisers. Read on! →

12 people attended our very useful map reading day with our experienced leaders. The course is always a success and comes back every year by popular demand. This time we were delighted to have so many non-members in the assistance. Read on! →

“Very please with today’s event – a lovely town walk around the more unknown parts of Dorking avoidin the High Street. Interesting stories with just the right amount of detail. Thank you!” – Susie and David, SHS members  

Chris Howard, Chairman of the Surrey Hills Society, was the guest speaker at the opening of the new contemporary art show at Watts Gallery on Saturday 13th January 2018. Surrey Hills based artist, Diana Croft is inspired by her immediate Read on! →

We were delighted to welcome 50 members to our this year’s Annual General Meeting at Stepping Stones school at Undershaw, Hindhead. Our President, Neil Maltby and Chairman, Chris Howard hosted the event and summarised the activities from last year. You Read on! →

Our vice-Chairman’s talk at the Reigate Society about the AONB and our Society received a warm welcome and delightful feed back: ” Your talk on the Surrey Hills Society at our Members Evening last Monday 9th October was excellent. We were Read on! →

  The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre’s involvement in The Tillingbourne Tales Heritage Lottery Funded project stands out as one of our most memorable education programmes of 2016. John Lambert, Job Durbridge, Charles Ball and Peggy were brought to life by our Read on! →

We all love Surrey for its many open spaces, woodland and overall green environment, but do we ever consider what it takes to keep it that way for residents and visitors? This piece focuses in particular on public paths, of Read on! →

Even though the event and our group suffered from extremely wet weather conditions, very positive comments were heard from our members: “This was a fascinating walk all about things which were no longer there.  Amazing to think how an area Read on! →

” Thank you for an extremely interesting, fun President’s Day. We really learned a great deal and it was lovely to see both training yards and meet new people. Shame Jim wouldn’t let me take a horse home with me, Read on! →