Length: ~9.66 km 6.0 miles Toughness 1/10
10:30 Epsom Downs service from London Victoria, calling at various stations in south London (including Clapham Junction 10.39, Balham 10.45, West Croydon 11.04, Sutton 11.19) and arriving at Belmont 11:23
Belmont and South Coulsdon stations are in London Travelcard Zone 6
Return trains from Coulsdon South are at xx.24 and xx.54 to London Bridge and at xx.20 to Victoria. Trains are also running from Coulsdon Town at xx.31 to London Bridge but today you need to change at Purley.
I've had a couple of late requests for a Bank Holiday Monday walk so here's a short, easy map-led walk that takes you through the interesting Little Woodcote area. The walk has a surprisingly rural feel.Today's route starts from Belmont, crosses Banstead Common and follows part of the London Loop into Oaks Park. There's an optional circuit around Oaks Park. From there, make sure you pick up the northerly route into Little Woodcote
Note: Once in Little Woodcote, the second cafe there is currently closed. So, to avoid an unnecessary loop out to it,when you reach the crossroads (signposted Oaks Track/Telepgraph Track), turn right along Telepgraph Track continuing the mapped route southwards
For lunch there's the Oaks Park Cafe(hot and cold food). There are various eateries in Coulsdon at the end of the walk, including the lovely Poppy's Cafe with its terrace overlooking Coulsdon Memorial Ground (hot food and homemade cakes) and The Pembroke pub on Chipstead Valley Road.
Note there are not any written instructions for this route so you'll need to print the map or download the GPS from the L=Short.23
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Just n=3 for this late -posted walk. W=non-stop-sun all day. Birds tweeted, butterflies fluttered (Brimstone, small blues, and something that might have been a peacock but didn’t stay still long enough). Flowers flowered. (violets, dandelions, pink stuff that might have been herb robert).
We stopped at Oaks cafe for lunch. (This largely somewhere dogs come to bark at each other, but they serve humans too). A pleasant stay under flowering cherry and magnolia trees. One opted for omelette and chips, others for more modest fare. No prizes for guessing where some of the chips went. By the time we left, we could almost speak Dog.
We had been promised sheep-with-horns-on on the next bit but they weren’t there. We tried not to sulk.
At Coulsdon, one peeled off for Coulsdon Town the others, made of harder stuff, pressed on to Poppies, then Coulsdon South.
Another grand day out on a pleasant untaxing walk
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