Normandy Pond
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Normandy Pond by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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Normandy Pond
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 17 Feb 2008
The pond is on Normandy Common and is a SNCI (Site of Nature Conservation Importance). It is probably not natural and was possibly dug for sand extraction in the eighteenth century. It was apparently in a very overgrown state by the mid-1980s when local residents, under the umbrella of Normandy Parish Council, volunteered to restore it. Read here http://www.normandyhistorians.guildford-surrey.co.uk/pond.html for the full story of the restoration. The photograph was taken late in the afternoon of a day during a period of weather with continual clear skies resulting in cold nights and comparatively warm days for February. Despite the ambient temperature of around 8º Centigrade at the time, the pond had not unfrozen at all during the day.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.256906
Longitude
-0.670096