The park is a wooded recreation and amenities area occupying the east of a narrow upland watershed between two tributaries. As such, the summit being the parish divide, it is in traditional terms, within Epsom parish and occupies land due west of the town, and due east of the semi-rural, semi-urban London district of Chessington.[3]
Part of the area is occupied by Hobbledown Children's Farm, which contains various folkloric themed adventure playgrounds and a small zoo hosting domestic farm animals, and exotics such as meerkat, nilgai, emu and Bactrian camel. The farm is not open to adults without children. The Horton Light Railway used to run through this land from Ewell West railway station to the five psychiatric hospitals owned by the London County Council, known as the Epsom Cluster. Parts of the landscaped grounds of these hospitals have now been incorporated into the country park.
horton, country, park, hectare, acre, local, nature, reserve, north, west, epsom, surrey, owned, managed, epsom, ewell, borough, council, typelocal, nature, reservelocationepsom, surreyos, gridtq, 627area152, hectares, acres, managed, byepsom, ewell, borough, . Horton Country Park is a 152 3 hectare 376 acre Local Nature Reserve north west of Epsom in Surrey It is owned and managed by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council 1 2 Horton Country ParkTypeLocal Nature ReserveLocationEpsom SurreyOS gridTQ 192 627Area152 3 hectares 376 acres Managed byEpsom and Ewell Borough CouncilThe park is a wooded recreation and amenities area occupying the east of a narrow upland watershed between two tributaries As such the summit being the parish divide it is in traditional terms within Epsom parish and occupies land due west of the town and due east of the semi rural semi urban London district of Chessington 3 Part of the area is occupied by Hobbledown Children s Farm which contains various folkloric themed adventure playgrounds and a small zoo hosting domestic farm animals and exotics such as meerkat nilgai emu and Bactrian camel The farm is not open to adults without children The Horton Light Railway used to run through this land from Ewell West railway station to the five psychiatric hospitals owned by the London County Council known as the Epsom Cluster Parts of the landscaped grounds of these hospitals have now been incorporated into the country park The Thames Down Link long distance footpath from Kingston upon Thames to Box Hill amp Westhumble station passes through the park 4 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horton Country Park References Edit Horton Country Park Local Nature Reserves Natural England Archived from the original on 18 October 2018 Retrieved 26 November 2018 Map of Horton Country Park Local Nature Reserves Natural England Archived from the original on 10 June 2021 Retrieved 26 November 2018 Epsom parish Archived 1 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine The Church of England Retrieved 2014 01 30 Thames Down Link PDF Surrey County Council Archived from the original PDF on 22 June 2011 Retrieved 6 January 2011 51 21 04 N 0 17 24 W 51 351 N 0 290 W 51 351 0 290 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Horton Country Park amp oldid 1091221701, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
