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This is an archive of walks done by the Saturday Walker's Club. You should only need to use this page if the SWC website is down.

Sunday 29 September 2024

Sunday walk - East Grinstead circular (Stargazer is away)

This walk takes you around pleasant hilly countryside to the south of East Grinstead, with fine views and relatively gentle gradients, and the familiar Wealden mix of pasture, woods and ancient houses. 

Length: 17.6km (10.9 miles). Longer and shorter options available.

Toughness: 5 out of 10.

Trains: From London Victoria take the 10.21 train to East Grinstead (Clapham Junction 10.28, East Croydon 10.39) arriving East Grinstead 11.18.
Return trains from East Grinstead xx.12 and xx.42.

Lunch: the Chequers Inn Hotel (01342 823333) is in Forest Row 8.7km (5.4 miles) into the main walk.
Next door to it on the left is the Java and Jazz Cafe and Pizzeria (01342 862699).
Across the road is the Brambletye Hotel (a pub, essentially).

Tea: The walk directions mention Cafe Nero, Costa and other options in East Grinstead. Click on the link for more details L=swc.40

1 comment:

branchline said...

There were #4 on this walk. Morning started #cloudy-changing-to-sunny-warm-weather. This was a lovely walk with pretty woods with dappled sunshine, and fields with varying amounts of mud. All going well until we were crossing a field and heard increasingly loud and continuous bellowing of bull(s) and cows. As we rounded the corner of the next field we were confronted by a melee of cows, bullocks and one massive bull carrying on. We skirted the field giving them a wide berth, and then walked through a hedgerow to try and cross through to the next field. We started to go through a slightly dilapidated barbed wire fence, when suddenly the huge bull came crashing through same fence and bushes just a few feet away from us, and into the field we were trying to get into, followed by most of the cows and bullocks. A logjam occurred so remainder of bullocks and cows started to spread out towards us. We beat a hasty retreat, and diverted down to the reservoir and picked up the route into Forest Row later on. The diversion around the reservoir was actually very attractive. We refreshed ourselves in the Java and Jazz and two took the bus from there back to Forest Row and the other two had a very relaxed walk back to East Grinstead and caught the 17.42 train (I think). An exciting walk.