Hankley Common Hankley Common is a common near Elstead , Surrey , England . It is an area of heathland with sandy infertile soil . The dry areas are covered in common heather ( " Calluna vulgaris " ) and bell heather ( " Erica cinerea " ) with patches of bracken ( " Pteridium aquilinum " ) Hankley Common is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) . Atlantic Wall reconstruction . D - Day training sites were created in Britain in order to practice for Operation Overlord , the invasion of Northern France by allied forces in 1944 . In 1943 , in an area of the common known as the Lion ' s Mouth , Canadian troops constructed a replica of a section of the Atlantic Wall . It is constructed from reinforced concrete and was used as a major training aid to develop and practise techniques to breach the defences of the French coast prior to the D - Day landings . The wall is about 100 m ( 328 ft ) long , 3 m ( 10 ft ) high by 3 . 5 m ( 11 . 5 ft ) wide . It is divided into two sections between which there were originally huge steel gates . Nearby are other obstacles such as dragon ' s teeth , huge reinforced concrete blocks and lengths of railway track set in concrete and wire entanglements . Much of the relics show clear signs of live weapons training and the main wall has two huge breaches caused by a variety of demolition devices including the Double Onion : a specialised demolition vehicle , one of Hobart ' s Funnies , based on the Churchill tank . The reinforced concrete was made with thick rebar s varying from 10 to 20mm ( 0 . 39 to 0 . 79 in ) thick . Over the years the wall has become colonised by alkaline - loving lichens , mosses , ferns and other plants because the concrete provides the lime - based substrate that these species require and which is found nowhere else in the locality . They present an unusual range of plants to be found in an expanse of acid heathland . The preservation of the Wall is managed by Army Training Estates with the assistance of the MOD Hankley Conservation Group . Golf course . Hankley Common is home to one of Britain ' s most popular golf courses . Hankley Common Golf Club opened in 1897 with nine holes and was expanded to eighteen holes in 1922 . Film and television . Hankley common was also used in the James Bond films " The World Is Not Enough " , Die Another Day , and " Skyfall " . The sets depicted a pier in the caspian sea where James Bond was attacked by a helicopter saw , a chase scene on hovercraft , and as the site of James Bond ' s ancestral Scottish mansion respectively . Hankley Common has been popular with fictional time travellers having featured in " Doctor Who and the Silurians " and in " Blackadder Back and Forth " . In the fourth series of " Ultimate Force " , the Drop Zone huts and surrounding area were used to shoot a Colombian forces training camp . " Tenko " was also filmed on the common . The Wigwam Murder . In 1942 , Hankley Common was the site of a murder . The victim was a woman who was living rough in a crude shelter made of tree branches in the manner of a wigwam , and so the newspapers gave her the nickname of " Wigwam Girl " . She was eventually identified as Joan Pearl Wolfe .