page_title: Churt
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Churt / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Whitmoor Vale. Taken from SU863365 looking SW into the valley
context_page_description: Churt is a village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, about 5.5 miles south of the town of Farnham on the A287 road towards Hindhead. A clustered settlement is set in areas acting as its green buffers, which include the Devil's Jumps. The west of the village slopes down to the steep edge of Whitmore Vale, which is mostly in Headley, Hampshire; at the foot of this bank is a steeply cut brook which defines the Hampshire border. There are forests and heathland by and atop the Greensand Ridge, and the hamlet of Crosswater is in the north of the parish.
context_section_description: The parish is roughly square and gradually slopes down to the northwest and steeply by the western border, where it is drained by a straight brook (feeding into the Wey) which demarcates the border with Hampshire.  In the north are sudden hills, or knolls, three of which are described as 'curiously conical sandhills' in the Victoria County History (1911), and are recorded on maps as the Devil's Jumps.
  The town of Farnham is centred 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north. The village sits in forests and heathland by and atop acidic sands of largely uneroded sandstone (the local form, Bargate stone) north of the escarpment of the Greensand Ridge.
caption: Coniferous woods in Whitmore Vale, Churt
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