11.5 miles, 18.5 km. Difficulty: 6/10.
The Greensand Way, an ornate church, an arboretum, a historic waterway, and finally, Godalming's ancient High Street.
Don’t leave Hascombe without admiring the lavishly decorated interior of St Peter's church. Just don’t, OK?.
Trains: Get the 10:00 Haslemere train from Waterloo (Clapham Junction 10:09)
Return from Godalming at xx:56 and xx:26 Get a return to Milford.
Lunch: The White Horse, Hascombe (01483 208258). Large groups should phone to book. The Merry Harriers in Hambledon (01483 682883) is an earlier possibility.
Tea: Hector's on the Wey, at Farncombe Boat House. There are also places in Godalming.
We go through Winkworth Arboretum on a public footpath. A proper visit costs £12.10 (free to NT members).
Directions: here.
Using a map, it is possible to cut 1 km off the end of the walk by
diverting to Farncombe Station from the Boat House. Trains leave
Farncombe at xx:59.
T=1.20
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Officially n=5 (I was tempted to include the groups of 5 and 2 walking independently and the 1 who missed the train) but you know me, honest as the day is long. The day was w=dry-warm-largely-sunny A very pretty walk with trees, views, a miraculous draught of fishes, and a large expanse of flowering heather. So well done to the walk poster for choosing it. It’s also one that feels a lot longer than its 11 miles. And it has plenty of ups and downs. Plenty of opportunities for a bit of light-hearted whingeing (readily exploited by yours truly).
The group divided into 3 sprinters and 2 dawdlers. The dawdlers stopped at both the Harriers and the White Horse - to replenish liquid levels. We know the sprinters stopped at the White Horse because we got there in time to wave them off. After liquid levels were adequate, we too were off again, but not before we dropped in the church to see the fish.
We bypassed Hector's and dawdled slightly faster along the canal, (where the boathouse seems have a new source of income- hiring out paddleboards) and caught the 17:55 by a whisker.
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