Description:

Newdigate Brickworks is a beautiful 43 acre (18ha) nature reserve located on the site of a former claypit and brickworks.

It was eventually decided that part of the site would be used for a housing development and the remainder would become a nature reserve. Building of The Mulberries housing development was completed in 2004 and management of the new reserve was taken over by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

The reserve is surrounded by hedgerows to the west and ancient semi-natural woodland to the east and south-east. The disused clay pits now host two lakes. The mosaic of woodland, scrub, grassland, marsh, water-side and aquatic vegetation communities makes the site particularly diverse.