Short walk: 11½ km (7.1 miles), difficulty 3/10 Main walk: 16¾ km (10.4 miles), difficulty 5/10
A Surrey walk, not far out of London. The main 10.4 ml walk, option M, might be a bit long for the available daylight, so the shorter walk, option a, is recommended. But the choice is yours. Both variants visit Tandridge, famous for its ancient yew.
Trains
Get the 9:51 East Grinstead train from Victoria (Clapham Junction 9:58, East Croydon 10:09) arriving Woldingham at 10:25.
Return from Oxted at xx:29 and xx:59.
Get a return to Oxted.
Lunch
The recommended pub for the short walk is The Haycutter (01883-776955) in Broadham Green. Another option is the Barley Mow (01883-713770) in Tandridge, a short detour away. There are more pubs in Old Oxted.
If you do opt for the main walk, Godstone has several pubs and two tea rooms The pubs are the White Hart (01883-742521), the Hare & Hounds (01883-742296), and the more up-market Bell Inn (01883-741877).
The Green Rooms of Godstone (01883-740407) and the Old Forge Deli Café (01883-743230) serve light lunches.
Tea
The Oxted Inn (01883-723440), a Wetherspoon's, is right next to the station.
There are several cafés in central Oxted. Robertson's in Station Road West (01883-712777) is open to 4pm. On the other side of the station, in Station Road East, you will find Caffè Nero at 139 (01883-730220) open to 5pm, and Costa Coffee at 62 (01883-723149) open to 5.30.
Walk Directions: here. Note that the short option misses out Godstone.
For the short option click on a.
For the main option, click on M,
or for the whole document, don't click on nothing. T=swc.2
4 comments:
Sounds like a nice short Sunday walk👍
6 at the station 3 for the advertised short walk 3 for the longer walk. Highly recommended for attractive scenery and views. Haycutters pub was well appointed with Sunday roasts and service the fastest since records began! Bit slippery in the hills and worth more than 3 out of 10. Rain started approaching Oxted. Tea at Wetherspoons and an early 4.29 train.
N=6
Information gathered from surveillance photographs and my extensive network of spies suggests weather was w=Mostly-cloudy-rain-near-end
3 who opted for the long walk met 1 more (who arrived on a slightly later train) in Godstone. So n=7 in total.
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