West End and Esher Commons Short Walk
(AKA Oxshott Circular) T=Short.17
Distance: Approximately
6.2 miles or 10 km for those more metrically minded
Difficulty: 3 out of 10
Travel: 18:03 South Western Train Guildford bound train from London Waterloo, arriving at Oxshott at 18:41 (If you miss this train, take the next one 30 minutes later and catch us up at the pub). Return trains run on the hour and half hour until 23:30.
This is one of my favorite evening walks….just a
short train journey from London brings you to Oxshott from where you almost magically
step from the train platform directly into heathland…..New instructions launched
last year make the route finding much easier and remove the guess work
previously associated with this outing….The walk explores two adjoining common
lands, both with a fairly wild wooded feel….We will stop midway through at the Prince of Wales pub in the pretty village of West End Common for a quick
drink and bite…
More information about the route can be found here. For those worried that I may try to starve them again...I have booked at table at the pub en route...
Enjoy the walk!
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So, I booked a table for 6 as a guess and, as it happened, n=6 met on the station platform in Oxshott in w=warm-sunny-conditions for this enjoyable evening walk in the countryside. Route finding went well and we arrived at the pub in good time. The service at the pub was a bit chaotic, but it was a pleasant evening to sit in the garden enjoying drinks while waiting for the food to arrive...which it did... eventually...though one diner had her pudding before the main! Leaving the pub a little later than planned, we walked briskly back to Oxshott admiring the glorious nearly full moon (buck, thunder or hay moon) as we went...it was particularly magical reflecting in the Black Pond behind a heron...we managed the last bit of the walk in the dark and arrived in time for the 10:30 train back to London. Another enjoyable evening out!
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