Distance: Approximately
5 miles or 8.5 km for those more metrically minded
Difficulty: 3 out of 10
Meet: 19:17 at Ashtead Station
(18:39 Guildford train from London Waterloo)
First note this is a WEDNESDAY evening walk
– apologies for the conflict with the day walk…but, Tuesday is too close to the
Hope Valley trip and I can’t to Thursday….so Wednesday it is….
When some of us did the full version of this walk
in very muddy conditions back in the care-free old days pre-March 2020, it was
noted that the last few miles would make a very fine evening walk across
Ashtead and Epsom Commons which are both varied with woods, open space and a
couple of nice ponds…..The idea is to reverse walk the Ashtead ending, then cross
the common on one its marked paths and turn left to pick up the main route where
it joins Ashtead Common and follow this along to the Epsom ending….The Cricketers
Inn is a pleasant pub awaiting you at the edge of Epsom Common…open until
23:00, food served until 21:00…
More information about the route can be found here. As there are no detailed
instructions for this option, I would suggest printing out the map page from
the OS Map tab and/or downloading the gpx file.
Return travel form Epsom about every 10 minutes
to various London destinations until 23:00.
Enjoy the walk!
1 comment:
We had better luck weather-wise than the day walkers....the forecast held true and despite the torrential rain for most of the day, it managed to ease as we set off from Ashtead station under w=humid-overcast-skies. One of our group did don his waterproofs which I think helped keep the precipitation at bay (many thanks)....I think most agreed the route made a pleasant evening outing through commons and woods (which at times felt tropical given the humidity). We arrived at the Cricketers just at 9pm, so missed food -- but most did enjoy a drink (or 2) on the terrace.....Oh, yes, almost forgot, there were 8 off the train who bumped into another on the common, making for n=9.
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