Surrey is distributed further into 11 boroughs and districts.
The all county executives were shifted to Newington in 1791 and to Kingston upon Thames in 1893. Since 1 April 1965, the county councils HQs have been placed outside the county boundaries and Kingston and some other areas were taken in with Greater London under the London Government Act 1963.
Recently plans were made to shift the offices to a new place in Woking, but were later shelved. Due to its closeness to London many commuter cities, towns and villages in Surrey have mushroomed up, making the population density high and the area is more financially strong than other areas of the UK. Surrey comes after Greater London, the metropolitan counties and Bristol as the most congested populated county. Most of the north east of the county is an urban area adjacent to Greater London.
Most English counties carry nicknames for people who belong to that county, like a Tyke from Yorkshire and a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire, for people from Surrey are called as Surrey Capon, as everybody knows that the county where chickens were fattened up to get a good price in the London meat markets.
Mature woodland is found in Surrey. Among its significant beauty spots are Leith Hill, Frensham Ponds, Box hill, Newlands Corner, Puttenham and Crooksbury Commons. Most wooded county in UK and so is one of the few counties that does not include new woodlands in their plans. Box Hill has the oldest unexplored area of natural woodland in the UK, one of the oldest in Europe.
Greenery is sprawled in much of Surrey and undulating chalk hills of the North Downs. Agriculture is not very intensive, there are more barren and wastelands. Together these form a big network of footpaths and bridleways including the North Downs Way, a scenic long distance path. As Surrey offers much of rural leisure activities and has a very large horse population. Moving towards the north, the land is mostly plain near Staines and borders the River Thames. The apex point in Surrey is at Leith Hill that is close to Dorking and stands at 965 ft or 294 m above sea level.
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