Mogador

 

Banstead Heath

Coal post. 150 yards south of a pond and 500 yards south of a previous post (which was the one near a hill top)

Coal post at a fork in the tracks and 200 yards south of the previous post which was south of a pond.

Mogador Road

Sportsman   - a converted Tudor hunting lodge).

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