Guildford Circular via Chantries Hill t=swc.57
Length: 12.6 miles (20.6km) (there are various shorter options)
Difficulty: 4 out of 10
On arrival, leave the platform and past through the ticket barriers and out onto the station forecourt to do the meet and greet. (Just inside the doors if it is wet.). Also have the current directions giving a diversion at the start & near the end to avoid a collapsed bridge & path closure.
"The walk explores pleasantly hilly scenery in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It starts on the tranquil River Wey Navigation, briefly follows the North Downs Way, and then veers off up to climb the wooded Chantries Hill for fine escarpment views at the top. You then rejoin the North Downs Way to climb to the hilltop church of St Martha’s, and descend from the escarpment to lunch in the pretty village of Albury.
In the afternoon, you are in somewhat different terrain – sandy heathlands and woods around the village of Blackheath. Finally you descend by an easy track through Tangley Manor for a further stretch along the River Wey into Guildford."
Trains: Get the 0935 Weymouth train from Waterloo (Clapham 0943) arriving Guildford at 1018.
Return trains from Guildford are frequent, but beware of the slow trains.
Lunch: The efficient Drummond at Albury (01483 202 039) 9.1km (5.6 miles) into the walk. For a picnic, carry on past the pub, taking in a building with dramatic chimneys, to a small recreation area on the left side of the road.
Tea: Guildford has pub & tea options whilst you wait for a train.
5 comments:
Link to Drummond Arms needs adjusting.
Done. Thanks.
The bridleway taken in paragraphs 95-95 is closed for the next couple of weeks due to a fallen tree. Instead you can take the bridleway that forks off to the right that's mentioned in paragraph 95. Follow this down the hill for several hundred meters to join a track at the bottom of the hill outside a house. At that point you can turn left to follow the track for another few hundred meters to bring you to a T-junction where you turn right. The T-junction is at about the start of paragraph 97; if you look to your left you can see the red tape closing off the bottom of the original bridleway.
Hi. Am in Shalford so will try to rendezvous with you in Shalford Park. Thx, Rolf
11 off the train. One of the group persuaded us to try a different start via the castle & it's gardens & two parks, reaching the turnoff to Chantry Wood via an enclosed footpath. As a result we missed 2 who had come by car waiting for us to pass on the route. However we were all together before lunch after some phone calls & short cuts, making n=13. W=warm-spring-day.
An enjoyable lunch saw the group fragment with some lingering over coffee etc, but come together later after a few of us explored the fallen tree, which turned out to not be an obstacle, though possibly a risk of falling as you walk underneath.
The good walking in the morning was replaced by a few serious mud stretches in the afternoon, but not too bad. Four went to the Kings Head getting the 1819 back.
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