Length: Length: 13.3 km (8.2 miles). Toughness: ~4/10
10:38 Dorking train from Victoria (Clapham Jct 10:45, Balham 10:50 etc ...), arriving Box Hill and Westhumble at 11:34
Buy a return to Box Hill and Westhumble, or Dorking Stations (same price) if you want the option to finish there.
Return trains from Boxhill are xx:16, xx:46 to Victoria (leaving Dorking Main 4 minutes earlier) and xx.10 to Waterloo (leaves Dorking Main 3 minutes earlier)
A walk in the Surrey Hills, featuring the Polesden Lacey estate. Today it's option b, starting and finishing at "Box Hill & Westhumble" station.
For lunch, The National Trust Granary Cafe in Polesden Lacey has plenty of inside and outside space and should be able to accommodate a group of walkers.
End of walk refreshments are available at Denbies, which has both a cafe and The Surrey Hills Brewery, or there's the The Stepping Stones pub, near Boxhill and Westhumble train station.
Please remember that these walks don't have a leader so you'll need to download your copy of the route from the L=2.14.b page.
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What about we plan a Walk from somewhere in like Islington to Archway. By walking along the Canal in Camden or something like that?
Thanks for the suggestion, Marc. I plan to post a country walk south of London a little nearer to the time, once the weather report is available.
There were about #N=25 at the start with two joining later making about #N=27 in all. It stayed #W=dry_and_quite_mild for most of the day with rain once we were back near the station. The new year celebrations were more extensive than in previous years with an outdoor party atmosphere and walkers consuming large quantities of fizz, cake and nibbles. Eventually we moved on to Polsden Lacy for lunch under the tent in the courtyard where high tech dongles help the staff bring your hot food to the right table. It was mostly firm under foot with a few muddy stretches in the woods up to Ranmore. Denbies tearoom was closed but we got a warm welcome at the Stepping Stones for further refreshment before catching the 17.14 back to London. An enjoyable start to the walking year!
Did anyone leave a lime green keep-cup lid at the fizz consumption point on this New Years Day walk ? We took it with us.
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