tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post6858884773325054005..comments2024-03-28T11:16:38.801+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Tuesday walk - Up and Over the Greensand RidgeAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-86015024019844304242015-12-30T20:15:02.961+00:002015-12-30T20:15:02.961+00:00Just to add that those who went to Hurst Green arr...Just to add that those who went to Hurst Green arrived there at 17:00. It was a pleasant route. Although there isn't a tea stop at Hurst Green, I suppose an option would be to take the train 1 train stop to Oxted and have tea there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-62633432590207837762015-12-29T22:02:42.660+00:002015-12-29T22:02:42.660+00:00Slight correction: grand-pere, mere et filsSlight correction: grand-pere, mere et filsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-11626438316983491302015-12-29T19:24:02.582+00:002015-12-29T19:24:02.582+00:00n=14 on this walk on another w=fairly-sunny day (n...n=14 on this walk on another w=fairly-sunny day (not a phrase we have been able to use very much recently). That is to say, there was generous amounts of sun, though also some cloud: also the very occasional spot of rain, but only spots.<br /><br />The sunshine was so nice that even the crossing of the (deserted) golf course at the start was a delight. The fields once we got onto the Edenbridge start proper were rather squelchy - mildly tedious rather than terminally boggy, but this was enough to persuade a French family (<i>pere, mere et fils</i>) to give up at Crookham Hill. <i>Domage</i>, because the next section offered a particularly pretty <i>gout d'Angleterre</i>, <i>(OK, that's enough of the schoolboy French - Ed</i>)with sunlit views of the Weald.<br /><br />Six of us tried to lunch at the Royal Oak in Crookham Hill. But alas, while they had a free table, it seemed we would have had to wait our turn to order behind other parties who had yet to arrive, so we moved on to Chartwell. Its self-service restaurant was not exactly covering itself in glory, with a limited selection of sandwiches and only sausage and mash or cheeseburger as hot items. A last minute appearance on the blackboard of Moroccan vegetable stew (tasty, if low on calories) saved the day for this particular punter.<br /><br />After lunch we did the the optional loop around the Chartwell Estate, which was enjoyed by all. But alas we came to a locked gate at the end of it, and enquiries of passing National Trust staff revealed this locking is permanent. So this permissive route is now non-permissive and will be dumped from the walk directions <i>(you all complain about too many options anyway).</i>.<br /><br />In the afternoon (shorter ending, alternative route a) nice views from Mariner's Hill and sightings of very early bluebell shoots, were not enough to deter some of the group from taking a direct route to Hurst Green. Six of us continued on a rather squelchy walk into Westerham, which we reached at 4.10pm. The consensus was that getting the 4.33 bus was a must so we had a lightning fast tea at the Tudor Tea Rooms and then provided the bus with its only passengers. At Oxted five of us dashed onto platform 1 and only just got the 4.54pm train. Our apologies to the sixth member of the party who did not.Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09314024151810191831noreply@blogger.com