page_title: Piney Copse
hierarchical_section_title: Piney Copse
caption_attribution_description: English: Piney Copse Byway passing small piece of woodland east of Gomshall.
context_page_description: Piney Copse is 1.7 hectares of woodland located approximately 450 metres east of Gomshall railway station and north of the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer. The copse is bisected by a public footpath. It was once owned by E. M. Forster, who used to live nearby and purchased the wood using funds from book sales - principally from A Passage to India - in order to prevent it from being developed into housing. When Forster died in 1970, he transferred ownership of the land in his will to the National Trust. In 1926 Forster wrote a short essay about Piney Copse in "Abinger Harvest", entitled "My Wood".
  The woodland is a secondary woodland comprising oaks, sweet chestnuts, and beech trees. The soil is freely draining, highly acidic, and loamy/sandy, sitting just south of a band of very chalky soils.
context_section_description: Piney Copse is 1.7 hectares (4.2 acres) of woodland located approximately 450 metres (1,480 ft) east of Gomshall railway station and north of the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer.  The copse is bisected by a public footpath.  It was once owned by E. M. Forster, who used to live nearby and purchased the wood using funds from book sales - principally from A Passage to India - in order to prevent it from being developed into housing.  When Forster died in 1970, he transferred ownership of the land in his will to the National Trust.  In 1926 Forster wrote a short essay about Piney Copse in "Abinger Harvest", entitled "My Wood".
  The woodland is a secondary woodland comprising oaks, sweet chestnuts, and beech trees.  The soil is freely draining, highly acidic, and loamy/sandy, sitting just south of a band of very chalky soils.
caption: Western edge of Piney Copse seen from Beggars Lane
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