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eight days. On 12 May 1980, 600 of the 695 acres (2.81 km) were burnt by a fire fanned by high winds. Residents of roads in
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While much of the common is heather and gorse scrub on a fine sandy soil, there was an elevated stand of mature Scots pine trees with little or no undergrowth known locally as "the cathedral" or "cathedral pines". Many had been removed by the end of 2020, owing to their roots having been damaged by
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Periodically, fires would break out on the common. In 1962, 200 acres (0.81 km) were burnt and, in 1965, 400 acres (1.6 km). Further serious fires occurred in 1969 and 1976, the latter being the worst ever known in
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During the Second World War in the 1940s, Ludshott Common was used as a tank manoeuvres training ground, and the heather was largely turned to mud. The heather recovered, and was managed from the 1970s onwards. A camp (named
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The original name of the series of ponds was
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