Length 10.4 miles (16.75 km) with options to extend or shorten
Toughness: 2 out of 10
Trains: Take the 9.51 East Grinstead train from Victoria (9.58 Clapham Junction, 10.08 East Croydon) arriving Dormans 10.46.
Return trains from Lingfield to London: xx:19 and xx:49
Buy a return to Dormans
If you extend the walk by looping back to Dormans, trains from Dormans to London leave at XX.16 and xx.46
This walk in the south-eastern corner of Surrey essentially consists of two near-circular walks linked together. The first loop is around the fringes of a historically interesting housing development to the south of Dormans station, with the outward path showing the cuttings, embankments and viaducts needed to build a railway through this undulating countryside. The second loop goes through a Local Nature Reserve and farmland in the low-lying countryside to the north of Lingfield.
Lunch: The suggested lunch pub in Lingfield is The Star (01342-832364), after 8 km. It is just outside the picturesque Old Town, has a large garden and serves good food all day. For an alternative you would have to make a short detour: there are cafés, restaurants and another pub clustered around the village pond (see Tea below).
Tea: Places near the village pond are the Red Rum Caffé (01342-459752; open to 5pm Mon–Sat, 3pm Sun), a Costa Coffee (01342-837843; open to 6pm Mon–Sat, 5pm Sun) and the Greyhound pub (01342-832147). You could also make another visit to The Star, the closest place to the station.
The post-walk extension goes past The Old House at Home (01342-836828) in the village of Dormansland, 1 km before Dormans station. A short detour would take you to an alternative pub on Dormans High Street, the Royal Oak (01342-836611).
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n=5 off the train at Lingfield set off in w=mild-blustery-overcast conditions along a tree lined path parallel to the railway line encountering fallen trees with just enough space to crawl under and keeping our balance on ground which was mainly firm under foot with just the occasional muddy stretch we passed Wilderness lake which looked like a resevoir full to the brim threatening the slight bridge we crossed between it and an overflow outlet and another gully with a walking post lying smashed in it and on we went over good sporadically muddy paths to the slippery greens of the golf course and the firm wide path alongside the racecourse taking us into Lingfield where the Star pub could not accommodate anyone due to a very large booking but the church offered sanctuary and a bench where three had a picnic while two went in search of sustenance elsewhere ending up in a very hospitable Indian restaurant called Tarana which allowed them to have starters and which they would recommend to others passing through Lingfield in future after which they caught the 15.19/16.19? train along with two of the picnic people who had carried on with the walk until notified by the third picnic person who had skived off on the 13.49 that trains would be slowing down after 3pm due to strong winds meaning no one did the full walk though all enjoyed what they did with group cohesion being fluid and the company very pleasant
Hi Wanderer,
Just to say that two of us did manage to do the full, "main" walk and we got back to Lingfield station in time for the 15.19.
It was a lovely walk. Thank you for posting it.
Thanks Daisy Roots - I underestimated your pace. It's good to know that the afternoon section was enjoyable too.
I've just belatedly read Wanderer's walk report - and I'm trying to catch my breath. A whole 9 lines of report in one elongated sentence without a full stop ! I'm obviously getting too old for this modern walk malarkey.........
I’ve heard about this phenomenon but never seen it quite so graphically illustrated!! Is this what predictive text allows?
Proust's longest sentence was 958 words apparently, but did include commas and semicolons.
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