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 9.45 Portsmouth Harbour train from London Waterloo, (9.52 Clapham Junction, 10.13 Woking) arriving Witley 10.42
Trains back from Haslemere are at xx.02, xx.10 and xx.29
Buy a return to Haslemere
Lunch: Picnic in the churchyard in Thursley or, for a pub lunch, walk up to the main road and turn right to find The Three Horseshoes pub (01252 703268).
Tea: An early tea option is the National Trust’s Devil’s Punch Bowl Café (tel. 01428 606565) in Hindhead [12.3 km]. Otherwise, continue to Haslemere where Hemingways is a popular stop. Other options are available.
For more details click L=swc.145 (If you don't have a GPS app on your phone there are suggestions when you click on the GPS tab)
1 comment:
N=15 on a day of w=sun-and-showers Heavy, but mercifully short. Two in the afternoon, were hailstorms.
We had been informed that the lunch pub, the 3 Horseshoes , was temporarily closed. ‘sigh’
It wasn’t long before Mr Tiger was left behind. He caught them up again at Thursley church just as they were setting off from their picnic. “you’ll hear about this in the walk report” he shouted.
Soon , he was left behind again. But, don’t you worry readers, they caught up with him later.
A pleasant walk, well waymarked, so written directions would have been superfluous. Could do with a few hills being ironed out, but you can’t have everything.
Most went to Hindhead NT cafe for tea, cakes etc Not so Mr Tiger who reckoned that that corner of the map looked a bit untidy and needed rounding off. This started as a clever wheeze but turned out to be not-quite-so-clever as the descent got steeper and scarier with loose stone covering the path. But he made it, and was able to greet the others with a smug sneer when they eventually caught him up.
In Haslemere, a sizeable number gathered in the Swan for long-overdue drinkies. A grand day out.
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