Surrey Hills National Landscape

Red lights in the shape of hay bales sit in a field in the dark. There are maybe 15 in random places going off into the distance.

Surrey Hills National Landscape

The Surrey Hills was one of the first landscapes to be designated in 1958 and stretches across rural Surrey, covering about a quarter of the county. The landscape features a mosaic of habitat such as chalk grassland, heathland, and woodland.

It is the most wooded county in England and provides outstanding natural beauty on London’s doorstep. Popular locations include Box Hill, the Devil's Punch Bowl and Leith Hill, southeast England’s highest point. The area includes towns such as Farnham, a World Craft Town, Guildford, Dorking, Reigate and Oxted alongside showpiece villages such as Shere and Abinger. As well as these thriving locations for crafts and local food and drink experiences, we have many vineyards.

In the foreground a walking person is surrounded by green grass and trees, in the background the sun is beginning to set.

Betchworth Mole in Surrey Hills National Landscape

We recognise the arts as an effective way of truly engaging a diverse range of people with the Surrey Hills landscape. The Nature Calling programme will allow us to work with communities in the nearby London Borough of Croydon. London’s largest borough, Croydon has a larger proportion than average from the global majorities, 54% of the population is non white British ethnicity. We are focusing our engagement on the New Addington community connecting with green spaces on their doorstep as well as the Surrey Hills.

Surrey Hills Arts - Wonderdusk

Surrey Hills National Landscape

Art project

Activate Performing Arts - National Executive Creative Producers

Our national Executive Creative Producers Activate, have decades of experience of working with artists to create high quality outdoor art experiences.

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Poetry School - Associate Partner

Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education.

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A group of people walk up a hill with more rolling, tree covered hills in the background

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Commissioned Writer

Still Shadey

Commissioned Artists

Daniel Locke & David Blandy
Two men smile. The image is decorated with illustrations in pink, turquoise and purple and labelled Daniel and David.

Producer

Activate Performing Arts - National Executive Creative Producers

Our national Executive Creative Producers Activate, have decades of experience of working with artists to create high quality outdoor art experiences.

Find out more

Poetry School - Associate Partner

Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education.

Find out more
A group of people walk up a hill with more rolling, tree covered hills in the background

Chilterns National Landscape

The beautiful hills, wooded valleys and steep chalk slopes of the Chilterns National Landscape have been shaped by nature and humans over centuries

Find out more
A group of three hikers cheer - they made it to the top of a hill. Behind them we see a view out to sea. They have one black labrador and a dalmatian.

Dorset National Landscape

Dorset National Landscape is a collection of landscapes, each with its own characteristics , including different landforms soils and wildlife habitats

Find out more
A family of three walk through a field with brown vegetation, a small hill with a field boundary - a wall, rises in the background.

Forest of Bowland National Landscape

The Forest of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire

Find out more
A group of about 20 walkers of all ages stop to admire the view. They are looking down across green hills and the sky is bright blue.

Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape

Lincolnshire Wolds has some of the most beautiful, unspoilt scenery in the East Midlands; with rolling hills and streams, hidden valleys and villages.

Find out more