Viewpoints · South East England
D
D is a viewpoint in the United Kingdom.
Alan Hunt — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 20 min–45 min
- Best time of year
- Clear days year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Ash Vale · 2.1 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
D is a named viewpoint in Surrey, South-East England, marked on Ordnance Survey maps for its outlook. The site is within the Surrey Hills National Landscape (AONB), and is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. It sits within the Godalming and Ash parliamentary constituency. The nearest railway station is Ash Vale, about 2.1 km away. Postcode area GU12.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Ash to Brookwood Heaths SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Basingstoke Canal SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Surrey Hills
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
D (minuscule: d) is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is dee (pronounced ), plural dees.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
{| class="wikitable skin-invert-image" |- style="text-align:center;" ! Egyptian hieroglyph <br>door, fish ! Phoenician <br/>daleth ! Western Greek<br/>Delta ! Etruscan <br/>D ! Latin <br/>D |- style="text-align:center;" |<hiero>O31</hiero><hiero>K1</hiero><hiero>K2</hiero> | | | | |} The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this. In Semitic, Ancient Greek and Latin, the letter represented ; in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was archaic but still retained. The equivalent Greek letter is delta, Δ.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.2769, -0.6917
- County
- Surrey
- District
- Guildford
- Parish
- Ash
- Postcode
- GU12 5RQ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Godalming and Ash
- Nearest railway station
- Ash Vale — 2.1 km
Sources
- osm: n4357313899 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: D (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is D?
- D is in Surrey, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode GU12 5RQ), in the parish of Ash.
- Is D a protected site?
- Yes — D is part of the Ash to Brookwood Heaths SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Basingstoke Canal SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is D free to visit?
- Yes, D is free to enter.
- How do I get to D?
- The nearest railway station is Ash Vale, about 2.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode GU12 5RQ.