This is the first page of a remarkable, hand-written document compiled by the late Jill Fry. There are over 11,000 totrix moths or leafroller moths and Thursley common has its fair share.

Truxford Cottage is at one of the extremities of Thursley Parish. It lies up a lane leading from Truxford Corner which is on the Thursley Road leading to Elstead.

Three village calendars were produced in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and were sponsored by The Guildford Flames and The Three Horseshoes. Then there was a hiatus until 2023 when they were produced by the village hall committee and sponsored by Mathwall, The Three Horseshoes and Butterflies Nursery School.

An NNR is a protected area designated by a national government to conserve and protect specific natural habitats, ecosystems, and biodiversity.

The key questions which the authors set out to answer were: • how big is it?; • what is it made of?; • where did it come from?; • how did it get there?

Concern expressed in The Times in 1927 about the Fear of War Office Acquisition of Surrey commons.

Thanks to a conversation between our Chairman, Sally Scheffers, and her veterinary surgeon, Jeremy Mantel, we are able to reproduce the...

In 1981, as part of the pipeline Esso built from Fawley to Purfleet via Gatwick airport, a trench was dug across Thursley Common.

Thursley National Nature Reserve is part of a large area of heath, bog and woodland is south west Surrey.

This article about Jill Fry's work on Thursley Common appeared in English Nature magazine in March 1994

This article about the Thursley Nature Reserve was published in Homes and Gardens in February 1981. In the article, reference is made to...

With thanks to Sean Edwards and Jill Fry. Also includes Excavation of Two Mounds on Thursley Common in 1959 Hydon's Ball section and...

Anyone who was up late on Friday, 10th May 2024, will have seen the spectacular and very rare sight of the Northern Lights lighting up...

Jill produced four calendars of her beautiful photographs taken in and around Thursley, with some featuring her husband Ray.

These wonderful photographs by Jill Fry were for a talk she gave in 2008 and include photographs taken between 2005 and 2007.

This marvellous presentation was given to the Thursley History Society by Sean Edwards in 2013. His talk was introduced by Peter Clake...

On Saturday 5th October, 2019, the Thursley History Society led a walk on Thursley Common to look at the Hammer Ponds and talk about the history of the iron industry on the Commons.

Rediscovery of Thor's Stone - newspaper report.

Photographs and news report

From Wikipedia: In a heatwave in 2006, an out-of-control wildfire burned 60% of the common, but by 2010 the heath was regenerating, with heather and gorse spreading across the charred ground. Forty-five pairs of Dartford warblers were recorded before the event, and six pairs in 2010.