Site Description
The site sits on London Clay. Habitat types present include woodland, scrub, grassland and open water.
Woodland covers approximately two-thirds of the site. The majority of this woodland is mature and dominated by Pedunculate Oak Quercus robur. These woodlands are dissected by a network of rides.
Little Bookham Common is a mosaic of rough grassland and scrub; much of this common is poorly drained and there are several old gunpits and bomb craters. The areas of open grassland are dominated by Tufted Hair-grass Deschampsia cespitosa.
There are several woodland ponds on the site and a tributary of the River Mole runs across it.
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