Surrey Wildlife Trust

Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) was founded in 1959 as Surrey Naturalists' Trust and it is one of forty-six wildlife trusts covering Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Alderney. SWT carries out conservation activities on a considerable area of Surrey County Council's large countryside estate and also manages land on behalf of the Ministry of Defence estate. As of 2022 the SWT manages more than 6,000 ha of land for wildlife and employs more than 100 staff. It had an income of £5.1 million and expenditure of £5.7 million.

As of April 2022 the SWT manages sixty-eight nature reserves. Thirty-one are Sites of Special Scientific Interest, nine are Special Protection Areas, eight are Special Areas of Conservation, one is a national nature reserve, twelve are local nature reserves, four are Nature Conservation Review sites, two are Geological Conservation Reviews, five include scheduled monuments and two are listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Surrey is a county in South East England. It has an area of 642 mi2 and an estimated population of 1.19 million as of 2017. It is bordered by Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. Its top level of government is provided by Surrey County Council and the lower level by eleven boroughs and districts, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley and Woking.

Public access

 * FP = public access to footpaths through the site
 * No = No public access
 * PL = public access at limited times
 * PP = public access to part of the site
 * Yes = public access to the whole or most of the site

Classifications

 * GCR = Geological Conservation Review
 * LNR = Local nature reserve
 * NCR = Nature Conservation Review
 * NNR = National nature reserve
 * RHPG = Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest
 * SAC = Special Area of Conservation
 * SM = Scheduled monument
 * SPA = Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds
 * SSSI = Site of Special Scientific Interest