CROCKHAM HILL IS SITUATED IN GREEN BELT LAND and designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A part of the area belongs to the National Trust, as a result of original purchases by its co-founder Octavia
Hill together with later bequests. Chartwell ranks as one of its most visited properties.
On the high ground of the Greensand Ridge are some hundreds of acres of common land, through which winds a section
of the Greensand Way. Lower down is farmland, whose use has changed over the years - from yesterday's hops, orchards and soft fruit to the sheep, cereals and oilseed rape of today.
The local farmers do excellent work in preserving the rich diversity of plants and animals indigenous to the area; and since their farmland edges
