Length: 17.6km (10.9 miles), 5 hours walking, 5 out of 10
The Journey Planner is apparently correct for these trains during the strike, but note that the last train back is 1720.
"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 0935 Thameslink Brighton train from London Bridge (East Croydon 0949) arriving 1018. Return trains are 1550, 1620, 1650 and 1720 being the last until Sunday.
Lunch: is normally early in Handcross after 3.5 miles, 5.6km, but based on getting a 1000 train. After 7.6km there is the Heritage in Slaugham, an altogether more upmarket place.
The point of an earlier train is that after 7.5 miles, 12km (3 hours) you get to Staplefield and The Victory Inn (tel 01444 400 463) all day at weekends. 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: Check your train departures! The Balcombe Tea Rooms (tel 01444 811 777), which offers a good selection of home-made cakes. It is open until 4pm or the nearby Half Moon a community pub.
T=1.16
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N=6 on this rather damp walk. Mostly light drizzle also the odd heavy shower. Some mud. 5 stopped at the Red Lion & 1 went on to the Victory, where we regrouped. The Victory was a very welcoming pub to a wet walker, and surprisingly busy with locals at 1.30pm. Caught the 1550,missing out going into Balcombe. Plenty of room on the trains.
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