Length: 17.6km (10.9 miles), 5 hours walking, 5 out of 10
"This walk is full of small delights: a nature reserve and lake with Japanese pavilion down by the stream below the impressive gardens and park of Nymans (National Trust) with its part-ruined manor house; a churchyard in Slaugham (pronounced 'Slaffam') with a 600-year-old yew tree some 10 metres in circumference; the ruins of Slaugham Manor; then a walk down to the River Ouse."
You should use the online directions in order to get the route to a tunnel under the A23 (motorway)
Trains: Get the 1005 Thameslink Brighton train from London Bridge (St Pancras 0950, East Croydon 1019) arriving 1046. Return trains are xx25 xx55.
Lunch: is normally early in Handcross at the Red Lion, after 3.5 miles, 5.6km. After 7.6km there is the Heritage in Slaugham, an altogether more upmarket place.
After 7.5 miles, 12km (3 hours) you get to Staplefield and The Victory Inn (tel 01444 400 463) all day at weekends. Late lunch or early tea. On the other side of Staplefield Green, some 300 metres north of the Victory Inn, The Jolly Tanners (tel 01444 400 335), a family run village pub with a pleasant beer garden. This gives you only 3 miles left to get to the station.
Tea: The Half Moon, an excellent community pub.
T=1.16
4 comments:
N - 8
W - largely dry and often refreshingly windy
Lovely walk.Three at the front took off, never to be seen by the vanguard four (which later became five post-pub) who early on inadvertently added a little extra mileage for extra aerobic excitement. The four spent a pleasant forty minutes at the thinly populated Red Lion, with two dining and happy with the fare. We were also happy that the only rain we saw poured outside the window. Most of my group pubbed in Balcombe at the end, reached at around 4.40. I hope the front three enjoyed their walk. Thank you to the scheduler and my companions.
Correction to Balcombe report - 'vanguard' should be 'rearguard', of course.
N=8
W=largely-dry-and-often-refreshingly-windy
Worth bearing in mind, the Half Moon in Balcombe had a really good rock group playing. Didn't find out whether this is a regular occurance. I thought they were a bit like The White Stripes, with a good Meghan White interpretation on the drums, although a guy playing.
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