THE expansive hills of England’s most wooded county have long attracted those who want to live in the countryside, yet be within a taxi ride of the capital, which is possible to do from these four Surrey houses currently on the market.
Anyone heading south from Guildford will notice that the hills quickly start to rise and, once you’re beyond the market town of Haslemere, set in a fold of high woodland, you enter the South Downs National Park. One route goes up to Marley Common, an area of mixed broadleaf woodland and open heath that is owned by the National Trust; it was one of their first countryside acquisitions (in 1911). Together with neighbouring Black Down, where Alfred, Lord Tennyson built a home in
