Length: 12.5 km (7.8 miles)
Toughness: 3 out of 10
Either
London Waterloo: 10-24 hrs Southwestern service to Dorking CJ 10-33 hrs Wimbledon 10-40 hrs
Arrive Dorking: 11-14 hrs
or
London Victoria: 10-15 hrs Southern service to Littlehampton
Arrive Clapham Junction: 10-21 hrs Change trains
Leave Clapham Junction: 10-33 hrs Southwestern service to Dorking (as above)
Arrive Dorking: 11-14 hrs
Return
Reigate to Victoria: Southern services at 00 & 30 mins past the hour. Change at CJ for Waterloo
Rail ticket: Buy a day return to Dorking
This walk gets a fair number of postings and my notes tell me mid-week walkers last gave it a go in July last year - so perhaps you wont mind a repeat just within the year. It makes for a delightful shorter-than-usual walk for a change, and the only steep(ish) climb towards the end of the walk up Reigate Park Hill can be avoided by walking along the hill's contours to the Park below.
From Dorking we head for the village of Brockham via the River Mole then along a track alongside Betchworth Golf Club. From Brockham the walk continues to the pretty village of Betchworth, where I suggest we stop for lunch at the usually excellent Dolphin Inn.
After lunch we cross fields and make for Rice Bridge to cross the River Mole once again - hopefully passable today (in winter this bridge is often under water). On then to Skimmington, where an early tea can be taken at the Skimmington Castle pub. From here it is up a farm road to Reigate Park Hill, then down through the park and on into Reigate town centre, with its post walk refreshments options.
T=swc.16
Walk Directions are here: L=swc.16
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N=20 on this delightful short walk, 4 joining at the lunch stop. Some ate in the pub, some had a drink and/or a picnic. As usual the group divided after lunch. A few had tea in the park, a few had a second drink at the Castle and I guess some stopped in Reigate. W=sunny_and_hot.
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