Tice’s Meadow Nature Reserve

Following the?last Ice Age?the River Blackwater was much larger and during periods of flood deposited gravel all along its wide floodplain. It was subsequently reduced to its current state when the River Wey captured its headwater flowing from Alton, some 50,000 years ago.
Surveys by the Surrey County Archaeology Unit have revealed evidence of prehistoric, Roman and medieval activities, including late Iron Age settlement, agriculture and pottery production, within the area of the site.
The land now forming Tice’s Meadow was owned and farmed for hops by Henry Tice, Walter Tice, his widow Ada Hewett, and Alan Perrett Tice from 1851 until 1958.