T=swc.274 Out along the North Downs escarpment and back through the Greensand Hills
Length: Main Walk, via Wotton & Friday Street: 18.5 km (11.5 miles).
Short Walk, omitting Friday Street : 16km (9.9 miles).
Difficulty: 6 out of 10 for the main walk, 4 out of 10 for the short walk.
Trains: Catch the 10.11 train from London Victoria (10:18 Clapham Junction, 10.23 Balham) to arrive at Dorking 11.07.
Or, 10.00 from London Bridge to Redhill (10.35) where you change for the 10.40 train to Dorking Deepdene, arriving 10.52, then a 3 minute walk to Dorking Main to connect with arrivals from the Victoria train.
Trains back from Dorking are at xx:17, xx:32, xx:43, xx:56.
Buy an all routes return to Dorking stations.
Lunch: The suggested lunch pub on the Main & Short Walks is The Wotton Hatch (01306-887694) on the A25 at Wotton, after 7½ km.
Tea: Various options in Dorking.
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I think nine emerged from the posted train, one more joined us at Dorking West, two later arrivals caught up by lunch, and late in the walk we met two more who had started earlier, so #14 all told on a glorious-spring-day. The majority ate or drank something in the Wotton Hatch where two of our number got the bus as one was feeling under the weather. Three did the afternooon short cut and the rest of us the full walk. The paths were very dry in the morning so we were disappointed to find quite a lot of mud between Logmore Lane and the fishery; if we had been craftier (or read the directions) I think we could have avoided it, but some of us attempted a detour into a field and had to retreat back into the gloop when we couldn't find a way out.
At the Nower we met the two early starters and proceeded down into Dorking, with some stopping for tea and some rushing for the train while I waited for a bus home. There were a few butterflies, early spring flowers and an unexpectedly beautiful day out after recent weather.
W=a-glorious-spring-day
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