Length: 16.5 km (10.3 miles)
Toughness: 3 out of 10
London Victoria: 09-41 hrs Southern service to Horsham CJ 09-48; Sutton 10-13; Epsom 10-24 hrs
Arrive Ockley: 10-51 hrs (a slow, stopping service today, so bring a book with you for the train journey)
Return
Warnham to Victoria: direct Southern services at 22 mins past the hour, and services via Horsham at 57 mins past the hour. Last trains today before Sunday are 18-22 hrs and 18-57 hrs respectively.
Rail ticket : Buy a day return to Warnham. This should work even if you decide to return to London via Horsham.
I like to post this lovely walk during bluebell season and in late autumn for leaf colour in the oak and beech woods en route today. You walk through unspoilt countryside and through farmland, with the only noise to disturb the tranquility coming from above on days when you are under the Gatwick Airport flight path.
Having passed a church in the middle of nowhere you come to the Scarlett Arms pub in the hamlet of Walliswood. This makes for a good lunch stop. The alternative lunch pub on the walk today is via a detour in the woods before the remote church - The Punch Bowl in Oakwood Hill.
After lunch the walk continues along a road then through a farm and over fields to head down a quiet lane which leads to more farms. Down a woodland track in a shallow cutting and then over farmland before the walk heads down tracks and over a road (the A29) before more woodland tracks take you to open fields above Warnham. Once over these fields you are in the outskirts of the town - and now in West Sussex. Your tea stop is the Sussex Oak pub which is usually open at weekends in the afternoon. Allow at least 20 minutes to walk from the pub to the railway station.
T=1.47
Walk Directions are here: L=1.47
3 comments:
sorry, im confused. Is there a start time?
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1051,or when the train arrives if it is running late.
Around #13 in #mild-and-occasionally-sunny weather. Three of us forged a map led route from Point 7 in para 36 directly to Horsham. This bypassed Warnham entirely and crossed the A24 via an underpass. We were then able to return to London Bridge on a Thameslink train.
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