# Bury Hill Fisheries Archive > Independent archive. This site is not affiliated with the former operator of Bury Hill Fisheries. The fishery is permanently closed; no bookings, tickets or memberships are offered or processed here. Content is gathered from public historical sources and reader contributions. Bury Hill Fisheries was a four-lake fishery near Dorking, Surrey, England. Old Bury Hill Lake closed in February 2023 and the whole venue closed in February 2025. Every figure on this site links to a dated source. Text and data are CC BY 4.0; please cite the page URL. ## Key pages - [Bury Hill Fisheries Archive: the lakes, the fish and the closure](https://buryhillfisheries.com/): An independent, sourced archive of Bury Hill Fisheries, Dorking: its four lakes, record fish, the 2022–2025 closure, restored old pages and the 3D Carp game. - [Closure Record: how and when Bury Hill Fisheries closed](https://buryhillfisheries.com/closure/): How Bury Hill Fisheries closed: the June 2022 notice, the Old Lake’s closure in February 2023, members-only fishing and final closure in February 2025. - [About the archive and its editor](https://buryhillfisheries.com/about/): Who compiles the Bury Hill Fisheries Archive, how facts are checked, how to send corrections, and what the archive is not. ## Lakes - [The Lakes of Bury Hill: Old Bury Hill, Milton, Bonds and Temple](https://buryhillfisheries.com/lakes/): The four lakes of Bury Hill Fisheries compared: size, depth, platforms, stock and when each closed, with sources for every figure. - [Old Bury Hill Lake: the 12.5-acre estate lake (closed February 2023)](https://buryhillfisheries.com/lakes/old-bury-hill): Old Bury Hill Lake, Dorking: spring-fed, 12.5 acres, 75 platforms, carp to 30lb-plus, zander to 16lb. Its history, records and closure in February 2023. - [Milton Lake, Bury Hill: crucians, tench and big bags](https://buryhillfisheries.com/lakes/milton): Milton Lake at Bury Hill Fisheries: 3 acres, 30 platforms, dug in 1991, famous for crucian carp approaching 4lb. Records, methods and closure. - [Bonds Lake, Bury Hill: the island carp lake](https://buryhillfisheries.com/lakes/bonds): Bonds Lake at Bury Hill Fisheries: 2 acres around a large central island, carp averaging 8–12lb in later years, catches over 300lb. History and closure. - [Temple Lake, Bury Hill: the specimen carp water (2002–2025)](https://buryhillfisheries.com/lakes/temple): Temple Lake at Bury Hill: a 4-acre specimen carp lake built for £350,000 in 2002, with more than a dozen thirties and fish over 40lb. Named fish and closure. ## Fish - [Fish of Bury Hill: species, sizes and records](https://buryhillfisheries.com/fish/): Every species recorded at Bury Hill Fisheries, from 30lb carp and 16lb zander to 4lb crucians, with the dated source for each size. - [Carp at Bury Hill: commons, mirrors, ghosts and the 33lb record](https://buryhillfisheries.com/fish/carp): Carp at Bury Hill Fisheries: the 33lb 1970s record, the 30lb 8oz mirror of 2001, Temple Lake’s named fish and how the carp were caught. - [Pike and Zander at Bury Hill: the predator fishery](https://buryhillfisheries.com/fish/pike-zander): Bury Hill’s pike and zander: a 1 October to 31 March season, pike to almost 30lb, zander over 16lb, and the newsletters that reported them. - [Tench, Bream and Crucian Carp at Bury Hill](https://buryhillfisheries.com/fish/tench-bream-crucian): Tench and bream over 10lb, crucians to 5lb on the Old Lake and nearly 4lb on Milton: the Bury Hill specimens and how they were caught. - [Roach, Rudd and Perch at Bury Hill: the silver fish](https://buryhillfisheries.com/fish/silver-fish): Roach and rudd to 3lb, perch to 4lb and 200lb mixed bags: the silver fish and match fishing of Bury Hill Fisheries. ## Methods - [How Bury Hill was fished: methods and the swim map](https://buryhillfisheries.com/methods/): How anglers fished Bury Hill Fisheries: waggler and feeder, boat fishing, predator tactics and an illustrated swim map, all from period sources. - [Waggler and feeder: how Bury Hill was fished for bags](https://buryhillfisheries.com/methods/waggler-and-feeder): Old Bury Hill was “traditionally a waggler and feeder water”: the match records, the 500lb boat haul and the baits that worked. - [Boat fishing at Bury Hill: punts, the jungle and the island](https://buryhillfisheries.com/methods/boat-fishing): Flat-bottomed punts for one to three anglers, free-loan life jackets and the remote swims of “the jungle”: boat fishing at Bury Hill. - [Predator season at Bury Hill: pike and zander tactics](https://buryhillfisheries.com/methods/predator-season): How Bury Hill’s 1 October to 31 March predator season worked and how its pike and zander were caught. ## Archive and data - [The Bury Hill 3D Carp Game: the 2007 original and a free rebuild](https://buryhillfisheries.com/game/): The 3D Carp Game Bury Hill Fisheries gave away in 2007 (18,973 downloads), where the original survives, and a free offline browser rebuild to download. - [The Archive: restored pages, newsletters and records](https://buryhillfisheries.com/archive/): Everything preserved from buryhillfisheries.com: restored 2001–2007 pages, the BHF Predator and BHF Carp mailing lists, history, data and corrections. - [Index of restored Bury Hill pages (2001–2011)](https://buryhillfisheries.com/archive/legacy-pages/): Every old buryhillfisheries.com address restored at its original location, with its capture date, status and the new page that covers it. - [BHF Predator newsletter archive (2009–2011)](https://buryhillfisheries.com/archive/bhfpredator/): The surviving BHF Predator newsletters from Bury Hill Fisheries: a 13lb 12oz zander for an 11-year-old, the Big One show and the Halloween 2011 zander. - [BHF Carp mailing list archive (October 2009)](https://buryhillfisheries.com/archive/bhfcarp/): What survives of the BHF Carp mailing list: two October 2009 phishing emails that reached the list, kept as a record with their links removed. - [Bury Hill Fisheries history timeline: 19th century to 2025](https://buryhillfisheries.com/archive/history/): A dated timeline of Bury Hill Fisheries, from the 19th-century estate lake to the 1997 aeration system, Temple Lake in 2002 and closure in 2025. - [Bury Hill lake and record data (CSV download)](https://buryhillfisheries.com/archive/data/): Download the archive’s lake and record-fish data for Bury Hill Fisheries as CSV, free to reuse with credit. ## Contribute and reuse - [Memories of Bury Hill: share yours](https://buryhillfisheries.com/memories/): Fished Bury Hill? Send the archive your memory or photo. Each published memory gets its own page, credited as you choose. - [Corrections log](https://buryhillfisheries.com/corrections/): Every correction made to the Bury Hill Fisheries Archive, dated, with what changed and why. - [Share & media: blurbs, fact sheet and images](https://buryhillfisheries.com/press/): Ready-to-use descriptions, a fact sheet, share images and reuse terms for writing about Bury Hill Fisheries and its archive. ## Data - [/data/lakes.csv](https://buryhillfisheries.com/data/lakes.csv) - [/data/records.csv](https://buryhillfisheries.com/data/records.csv)