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Saturday, 13 November 2021

Saturday Walk - North Downs Way in Oyster Zone 6: Caterham to Knockholt

DAC is away...
 
Length: 26.2 km (16.3 mi)
Ascent/Descent: 580/587m
Net Walking Time: 6 hours
Toughness: 7/10
[shorter versions possible (see the webpage), but mostly depending on buses]
 
Take the 09.17 Caterham and Tattenham Corner train from London Bridge (East Croydon 09.32), arrives Caterham 09.58. 
From Victoria take the 09.09 Reigate train (Clapham J 09.16) and change at East Croydon (09.26/09.32). 
Return to Charing X (via Orpington, LBG and W’loo East) on xx.13 or xx.43, journey time 44 mins. 
Caterham and Knockholt are within the Oyster Zones 1-6
 
Tired of reading pages of detailed walk directions? Here is your solution: just follow the well waymarked North Downs Way along one of its better stretches (but do expect some road noise in the early stages), with just minimal directions to hand, found here
 
Lunch: Botley Hill Farmhouse in Botley Hill (10.2 km/6.3 mi, food to 15.00). A small table has been booked for 12.45 (12.30 wasn’t available anymore). 
Tea: a couple of pubs in Knockholt Pound about 4 km from the end and another one, a little closer and a little off-route, in Halstead.
 
For summary, map, height profile, some photos, walk directions and gpx/kml files click here. T=swc.111

3 comments:

Marc Ricketts said...

Now I might do the Walk on Saturday. But I can't Gurantee I will. But the only problem is this Saturday. You might get stuck in a bit of Traffic from London Liverpool Street to London Bridge because of the Lord Mayor's Show.

Unknown said...

Aiming to catch you at the pub... Simon

Thomas G said...

I needed an early finish today so chose a walk close to London, and this one appealed as it has lots of wild garlic and bluebells in spring, so in my simple logic that was good reason to assume there'd be plenty of leaf colour in evidence. And so it was. We also had fine far views despite the grey clouds, to the South Downs and to any number of colourful woods nearer by.
There was some mud in places, but not much for the time of year, I'd say.
6 had set off from Caterham, and we encountered 1 other already at the pub, having started a bit earlier. It was the single walker that we overtook last Saturday on the H'mere - Midhurst walk. This time he chose deliberately this walk to join the group and did so for the afternoon, until Halstead where he forked right to the pub. One other joined us at the pub a bit later, having started from Oxted due to getting out of bed late, so n=8 in w=grey-but-dry weather.
On the descent to Knockholt Station we heard an owl and then narrowly missed the 16.43. Currently on the 17.13 train...