Chapter II
The Surrey Hills.
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Four hundred and twenty square kilometres of chalk, greensand, oak wood and hedgerow — and the landscape that shapes every stitch we cut.
A love letter
Ridge, wood, water.
From the workshop in Chiddingfold, one can walk in fifteen minutes to the top of Sandhill and look south across the Weald toward the South Downs. To the east lies Hambledon; to the west, Shillinglee — a wooded park and lake known to every buzzard for miles, and to most locals for a slow tide of morning mist.
This is a landscape of hedgerows and hollow lanes, of yew and beech, of chalk streams that run clear enough to count the trout in. It is also, quietly, one of the most walked corners of England — and rightly so.
A short catalogue of places we love
- Sandhill
— dawn view over the Weald - Brook
— blackthorn lanes - Chiddingfold
— the workshop & the green - Chidd Common
— oak and bluebell - Hambledon
— hollow lane country - Shillinglee
— park, lake & buzzards