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Length: 10.8 miles/17.3 km
Difficulty: 5 out of 10
This is a map/GPS led walk which follows the Greensand Way from Witley to Haslemere.There are no written instructions so if you're not confident followng a map or GPS route, best to keep in sight others who are.
Trains: Catch the 10.00 Portsmouth Harbour train from London Waterloo, (10.09 Clapham Junction, 10.33 Woking) arriving Witley 10.59.
Trains back from Haslemere are at xx.17 and xx.43
Buy a return to Haslemere
Lunch: Picnic in the churchyard or, for a pub lunch, divert to the The Three Horseshoes, a pleasant community owned and but professionally run pub in Thursley (01252 703268)
Tea: In Hindhead [12.3 km] an early tea option is the National Trust’s Devil’s Punch Bowl Café (tel. 01428 606565. Otherwise continue to Haslemere where Hemingways is a popular stop. Other options are available.
For walk description, map and GPS click here. (If you don't have a GPS app on your phone there are suggestions when you click on the GPS tab).
1 comment:
Just #6 of us on this delightful walk today despite the #non-stop-sunshine. The morning section through lanes and rolling fields passed quickly and most of us settled down for lunch at the Thursley churchyard before keeping the pub luncher company with a drink at the friendly and not-too-busy Three Horsehoes. Most found the afternoon's steady climb up a byway to Gibbet Hill hard work. some toyed with the idea of a detour into the Punchbowl but thought better of it - maybe something to do on another walk when it's earlier in the day. A welcome break for tea and ice cream at the visitor centre, then a beautiful section through Polecat Valley. There were a few stops to pick garlic and examine various interesting flowers before three of us caught the 1717 train, the rest dallying in Haslemere. Thanks Wanderer, a great choice of walk for today with a good amount of afternoon shade.
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