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Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Wednesday Walk Dorking Circular - Out along the North Downs Escarpment and back through the Greensand Hills

SWC 274 - Dorking Circular

Length: 16 km (9.9 miles)    Short walk version, which omits Friday Street
Toughness: 4 out of 10

Either
London Victoria: 10-25 hrs    Southern service to Horsham    CJ: 10-32,  Sutton: 10-54 hrs
Arrive Dorking:  11-21 hrs

Or
London Waterloo: 10-24 hrs   SouthWest trains to Dorking   CJ: 10-33, Wimbledon: 10-40 hrs
Arrive Dorking:    11-15 hrs

Would Waterlooers please wait for the arrival of Victorians outside Dorking station 

Return

Dorking to Victoria:  07 and 37 mins past the hour
Dorking to Waterloo:  30 mins past the hour  (plus the Victoria train and change at CJ) 



I suggest we do the short walk version of this walk today, mainly because it looks as though the Stephan Langton pub is still closed, so there is little point in including the leg to Friday Street.

Leaving Dorking we soon take the Old Carriage Road - a chalky track - along the North Downs Escarpment from which there are fine views to the south. After White Down Lease we turn left and head down and inland across fields and through farmland before heading uphill to Wotton, passing on the way St John the Evangelist Church. In Wotton we stop at the Wotton Hatch pub for lunch - usually good.

After lunch the walk continues through woodland to Bury Hill Fisheries then The Nower on the Greensand Way  (a hill above Dorking). Then it's down through the town of Dorking where we can stop for tea before walking to the railway station.
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

How was Battle? Train cancellations?

Anonymous said...

I'll be arriving at Dorking Deepdene a few minutes ahead of Dorking Mains, but am quite slow, so will set off as I'm sure you will all catch me up v quickly. AT

Mr M Tiger said...

15 at the station with a n=16 th joining at lunch time. A pleasant day for walking w=starting-sunny-clouding-later Most did the short option but a few struck out for Friday Street. Of course, I was soon left behind but I soldiered on, with a cheerful countenance and a kind word for everyone I met. Never mind, though. As we neared the lunch pub, the rest caught me up again. (I don’t know either, readers - space, time, and maybe a few cows).
Those what ate at the Wotton Hatch liked what they got.
Then we were off again. I was looking forward to racing up the Nower but as I was keeping the walk's author company and he wanted to check out a lower path, I forwent the experience. Various tea-shops were visited on return. I may have had a piece of cake. A sizable proportion caught the 17:07

Marcus said...

3 of us stopped for tea at Cake Rider (cafe) in South Street. Highly recommended - delicious cakes and proper leaf tea in china pots.

Sandy said...

You are partly right Mr Tiger. The ones you mysteriously overtook had absent-mindedly wandered into a field of cows, but no doubt we lost time because in trying to get back to the route we ended up scrambling up a very steep, crumbly bank in the woods. Tree branches and roots were clung to, among other things.
In the afternoon three of us had a most enjoyable stroll to Friday Street. There was quite a lot of interesting produce on offer at the cottages there, including quails' eggs, but none of us had the right change to purchase any. (The jam seller invited payment by paypal but I didn't know how to do that on my phone.) We wondered about the lower path round the Nower but decided to stick to what we knew.
Anyway, a fine walk, thanks for posting.
Sandy