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Netley Heath is an area of woods and heathland in the parish of Shere close to the colloquial 'village' of Gomshall in Surrey, England. It has part of a larger a geological stratum across parts of the South East, the "Netley Heath Beds".
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Land use
The woodland contains deciduous and coniferous trees — charcoal burning was carried out in the area from timbers with evidence of kilns for the charcoal product to be incinerated at high temperature.
Geology and fossils
It has part of a larger a geological stratum across parts of the South East, the "Netley Heath Beds". Fossils from the Red Crag (Lower Pleistocene) age have been found in deposits at Netley Heath. This is taken as evidence that marine deposits of the Plio-Pleistocene age were once deposited over the chalk.
From 1795 to 1815 Netley Heath was the site of an Admiralty shutter telegraph station on the line from London to Portsmouth.