Sunday Walk – Epsom to Ewell or Cheam

SWC Walk 352a – Epsom to Ewell or Cheam

Length: About 20 km (12¼ miles) for the full route to Cheam (see below for shorter options). Toughness: 2/10

10:10 Dorking train from Victoria (Clapham Jct 10:17), arriving Epsom (TfL Zone 9) at 10:53. You can use Oyster PAYG / contactless at Epsom, but note that Freedom Passes are not valid: you'd need a one-stop extension from Ewell East.

Trains back from Cheam (Zone 5) to Victoria are half-hourly at xx:18 & xx:48.

The main version of this walk starts from Chessington South, but there's a replacement bus service on this line. This extended version loops through Epsom Common and has a longer stretch through Horton Country Park where it joins the main route to Ewell. The final leg is a serpentine route through the historically interesting Nonsuch Park to Cheam.

As it's around 13 km to the usual lunch places in Ewell I suggest a pub stop at the William Bourne on the outskirts of Chessington, after 8 km. The walk document lists plenty of places in Ewell, Nonsuch Park and Cheam for further refreshment stops.

Shorter Options: You could finish the walk in Ewell, but unless you want to chance the replacement bus at Ewell West you'd have to walk along roads for 1 km to Ewell East (Zone 6; trains to Victoria at xx:15 & xx:45). A nicer way of shortening the walk would be to take the suggested afternoon short cut across Nonsuch Park, saving around 3 km.

Please bring the directions from the L=swc.352.a page.