Length: 23km
Toughness: 7 / 10
Transport: Take the 9:00 from London Waterloo arriving in Haslemere at 9:53. Returns from Farnham at xx:28 and xx:58. Buy a day return to Haslemere. You might need to buy a single from Farnham to Woking on return.
This is a varied and interesting walk across the hills north of Haslemere including the devil's punchbowl, heathland, MoD land with replica of the atlantic defense wall and finally a ruined abbey.
You can register for this walk for track+trace purposes at https://www.lwug.co.uk/
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Despite the weather forecast or due to a desination with the less rain forecast, n=4 turned up at Haslemere station (three regulars, reunited after some weeks apart, and one new walker who missed us at the station, but whom we bumped into later). The woodland provided some cover from the rain, along with the scent of pines and the sound of raindrops. Muddy paths not too bad. Strange to imagine the A3 once cut through the valley. Not many views to be had in the morning due to the mist and trees in full leaf, except from Gibbet's Hill, but weather cleared up later. Three picnicked in Thor's Thursley, the fourth sped off for a pub lunch booking. Quite a long stretch after lunch, including through the eerie MOD land and the lovely, quiet Thursley Common NNR (with flowering heather and white bog cotton or cotton grass seen near the ponds part of which had been closed off). Heard/saw a couple of stonechats there, but not much other wildlife, such as the damsel or dragonflies. Later, took a break at The Barley Mow where there was a cricket match underway no less (is it always there?) and the sun got quite hot (talk about extremes) before the final stretch. A long walk (15m?) but needed and in good company.
w=rain (medium) and w=humid / muggy with some w=sun later.
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