Ashtead Common

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Ashtead Common is a large wooded area to the north of the village of Ashtead and the town of Leatherhead.

It is a preservation area run by the Corporation of London. The Preservation Order is hundreds of years old.

Because of this in the 1930s, when the private British Rail companies of the time wanted to join Chessington South railway station with Leatherhead railway station, they were denied planning permission from the Government because of the protection order.

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