Saturday Walk - Haslemere to Midhurst (via Lurgashall or Lickfold)

Length: 21.8 km (13.4 mi) or 20.9 km (13.0 mi)

Ascent/Descent: 604/718m; Net Walking Time: 5 ½ hours

Toughness:  7/10                        

                                 

Take the 09.30 Portsmouth Harbour train from Waterloo (09.55 Woking), arrives Haslemere 10.20.

From Clapham take the 09.22 stopping service (arrives H’mere 10.16).

Return to Haslemere from Midhurst either by bus number 70 (roughly hourly, £5.00 fare, last dep. 19.05) or by taxi. 
Return trains from Haslemere are on xx.02, xx.15, xx.32 and 17.37 and 19.39, journey time from 49 to 66 mins.

The route leads from Haslemere station through the town’s centre and along the waymarked Serpent Trail through a small Nature Reserve to rise steeply out of town and back down through Camelsdale to then rise with the Sussex Border Path through pastures and pine and heather covered slopes up to the Black Down. Following the crest through open heathland, with far views across West Sussex and out to Hampshire, you reach the Temple Of The Winds viewpoint, with further panoramic views over the Rother Valley to the South Downs escarpment and easterly across to the West Weald.

A long descent through the sloping open grounds of Blackdown House and through bluebell-carpeted woods leads to either the classic Sussex village of Lurgashall, with its pub and church at the corner of a picturesque village green and cricket pitch, or to the hamlet of Lickfold with its super-duper Inn.

The afternoon takes you through a mix of flat farmland and wooded hills to the Cowdray Estate, with its golf course-with-views as well as several polo fields, to the romantic ruins of Cowdray House, as captured by JMW Turner. Climbing from the River Rother’s banks, Midhurst's Norman castle ruins are passed en-route to the old market town's attractive centre with its many tea options.

Lunch: The Noah's Ark in Lurgashall (10.3 km/6.4 mi, food to 14.30, booking recommended), The Lickfold Inn in Lickfold  (11.0 km/6.8 mi, a la carte food to 14.30, bar food all day, booking essential!).

Tea: lots of choice en-route to and in Midhurst  (see the pdf for details), recommended are The Halfway Hut (3 km from the end), Cowdray Farm Shop & Cafe (2 km from the end), Garton’s Coffee House, The Wheatsheaf, The Angel Inn and The Olive & Vine.

For summary, map, height profile, some photos, walk directions and gpx/kml files click here.

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Saturday walk - Canterbury Circular - wood anemones, bluebells, maybe apple blossom

Canterbury Circular or to Sturry
Length 22.5km (14 miles) or 18.3km (11.4 miles)

Catch the 9.09 Southeastern High Speed train from St Pancras International (9.16 Stratford International) to Canterbury, arriving 10.08.

Buy a day return to Canterbury if intending to do the full walk, or to Sturry if you want to finish there (or keep your options open)

OR

Bekesbourne to Sturry or Canterbury
Length: 12.1km (7.5 miles) or 16.3km (10.1 miles)

Catch the 10.07 From Victoria (10.23 Bromley South) to Bekesbourne, arriving 11.43.

Buy a day return to Bekesbourne, which should be accepted from Sturry.

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Toughness: 2 out of 10 (largely flat) for both walks

For walk directions click here. For GPX click here.

This is the old Bekesbourne Circular walk which last year had a bit of a makeover, following an outing with the midweek walkers and an idea from Stargazer. This is its first Saturday outing in its new format.

The route from Bekesbourne to Sturry is as it ever was - a very gentle trundle across Kentish apple orchards (which may just be showing some blossom, but no promises: apple blossom is very variable in its timing) and through some achingly pretty villages with lovely pubs. On the section before Fordwich (Sturry) there are some bluebell and wood anemone woods.

The new bit is a start and finish in Canterbury, walking through the historic heart of the city in the morning and ending by approaching it along the River Stour. This open up new options:

- for those starting in Canterbury you can either do the full 14 mile circuit or end in Sturry (Fordwich) after 11.4 miles and take the train back from there.

- for those starting in Bekesbourne you can either just do the short but very pretty 7.5 mile walk to Sturry, or have a longer 10.1 mile walk into Canterbury.

There is a reasonable chance that those starting from Canterbury might arrive at Bekesbourne just as those starting there are arriving (the longer walkers have 1hr 35 minutes to cover 4.1 miles: a brisk pace, but this is flat ground and easy walking on hard tracks for the most part). Otherwise both groups should arrive at lunch at more or less the same time. To give us all a chance to meet up, I suggest we aim for the Duke William pub in Ickham (reached by a small diversion) which is the largest of the possible lunch pubs on this walk, and (according to a 2016 report) ideal for groups.

For tea the Fordwich Arms has a lovely garden beside the Stour and does tea in pots but has no food apart from salty snacks. The George & Dragon just down the road also has a garden and does puddings all afternoon. In Canterbury, if you can hold out that long, you are spoilt for choice. The walk directions have a few suggestions.

Trains back from Sturry are at 37 past* to Charing Cross (1hr 47) - or you can change at Ashford  for St Pancras (1hr 17 minutes). * until 19.37: after that at 34 past till 22.34

Trains back from Canterbury as follows:

- 25 past from Canterbury West to St Pancras for high speed ticket holders (56 minutes journey time). You can also get the 42 past Charing Cross train and change at Ashford for the high speed (1hr 12 mins journey time)

- 09 and 48 from Canterbury East: the 48 takes 1hr 33 and the 09 1hr 44

- 42 past from Canterbury West to Charing Cross (1hr 42 minutes)

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Alton Circular

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Length: 20km (13m)
Toughness: 4 / 10
Transport: Take either the 8:53 from London Waterloo or the 9:00 and change in Woking (6mins). Both trains arrive in Alton at 10:10. Return from Alton at xx:15 and xx:44

From the description:

The quiet corner of Hampshire through which this walk passes seems like the kind of countryside in which nothing much ever happened. Yet in the late 18th and early 19th century it inspired two famous writers - Gilbert White and Jane Austen. After a section over wide upland fields to East Worldham, the walk first plunges into the delightful arcadia of woods, hangers and hidden pastures that surround Selborne, about which White wrote his famous Natural History. From there, it crosses wooded Selborne Common and gentle ridges of downland to Chawton, the home of Jane Austen for the last eight, and most productive years, of her life.

The Chilterns and the Thames Valley: Goring Circular (via Hill Bottom) or to Pangbourne

Length: 18.0 km (11.1 mi) or 25.0 km to Pangbourne

Ascent/Descent:   350m

Net Walking Time: ca. 4 hours or 5 ½ hours to Pangbourne

Toughness:  4 out of 10 

Take the 10.15 Cardiff Central service from Paddington (change Reading 10.40/10.51), arriving Goring & Streatley 11.05.  
With Railcards other than Network RC: take the 09.57 Didcot Parkway service (this may show as a ‘Cholsey’ train at Paddington), stops Ealing B’way 10.05.

Return trains: xx.12, xx.40, xx.44 (4 mins later from Pangbourne).

Buy a Goring & Streatley return in any case.

First Wednesday outing for this walk…

It is a mix of beautiful, rolling Chilterns countryside, forest trails and quiet country lanes. Passes through some bluebell woods, but will the wee blighters be out yet?

Walk Option: from Goring station find the Thames Path and continue along it (with the water on your right hand side) to Whitchurch and thence across the Thames to Pangbourne station.

For summary, walk directions, map, height profile, photos and gpx/kml files click here.

Lunch: The Sun Inn in Hill Bottom (8.2 km/5.1 mi, food to 15.00); the chef is ex-Gordon Ramsay and Tom Aiken, so expect gastro-food. There is some talk on previous postings that walk-in custom will not be fed, but I can’t see anything to that tune on their website. But if that is true, then there are other options…

The Red Lion (trad village pub fare) and The Plaice (fish & chips), in Woodcote (11.9 km/7.4 mi, food to 14.00 at both establishments). As long as you beat a 4 km/h average pace…

Tea:  Plenty of options in Goring (a little beyond the station) and in Whitchurch/Pangbourne. For details see the pdf. T=swc.243

Chiltern hills and canals

Tring to Wendover
Length: 21km (13 miles) Toughness: 6/10

10:01Northampton train from Euston arriving Tring at 10:36.

Return trains from Wendover to Marylebone are at xx:26 and xx:56 (journey time 54 mins).

Tring and Wendover are on different lines operated by different train operators, so the best ticket option is an All Zones Travelcard plus a single from Boundary Zone 6 to Tring and another single from Wendover to Boundary Zone 6.

After a flat start along the Grand Union Canal and through nature reserves, the route goes through fields and finally climbs high into the wooded hills of the Chilterns. The hills can be avoided by following a canal into Wendover.

The recommended lunch pub is The Oak in Aston Clinton (01296 630466), which is usually fully booked on a Sunday. A table for 6 has been reserved for 1:15pm in the name of the SWC. IMPORTANT - Please phone the pub as you leave Tring to let them know the exact number who want to eat there.

You will need to download the walk directions.

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Hampshire - Jane Austen's countryside

Overton Circular
Length: 18.7km (11.6 miles) Toughness: 4/10

09:42 Exeter St Davids train from Waterloo arriving Overton at 11:09.

Return trains are at 16:00, 18:00 and 20:00 (journey time 1 hour 26 mins).

This walk passes through gently undulating scenery in the north of Hampshire with several Jane Austen associations. The recommended lunch pub is The Fox in North Waltham (01256 397288), which is usually fully booked for Sunday lunch. A table for 6 has been reserved for 1:00pm in the name of the SWC. IMPORTANT - Please phone the pub as you leave Overton to tell them the exact number who want to eat there.

For those not requiring a pub lunch, there is a shortcut that reduces the walk length to 8.6 miles.

You will need to download the walk directions.

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Saturday Walk – The Hucking Estate and Leeds Castle

Extra Walk 253 – Hollingbourne Circular, via Hucking
Length: 17 km (10.6 miles), with shorter options. Toughness: 5/10

10:22 Canterbury West train from Victoria (Bromley South 10:39), arriving Hollingbourne at 11:28.

Trains back are hourly at xx:59. You could also take an outbound train at 28 minutes past and change at Ashford for a High Speed train to St Pancras, but you'd have to pay a hefty supplement for this.

This walk features a climb onto the North Downs ridge and a meander through the Woodland Trust's Hucking Estate, followed by a circuit on public footpaths of the scenic grounds of Leeds Castle. The views of the castle are spectacular but you have to endure some noisy main roads and railways to get there, so if you're prepared to give it a miss a short stretch through Hollingbourne Meadows is offered as a more peaceful alternative.

I've started the walk later than usual because its early lunch pub (the Hook & Hatchet Inn: a disappointment in the past) has been revived and is well worth a try. However, it's less than a third of the way through the full walk and you might prefer to carry on to the up-market Dirty Habit down in the village, perhaps after taking one of the suggested morning short cuts. T=swc.253

Saturday walk - Wivelsfield to Haywards Heath - Flower-filled woods of the Weald

Length: 18km (11.2 miles) T=3.225
Toughness: 5 out of 10

9.42 train from St Pancras International Thameslink platforms (9.52 Blackfriars, 10.19 East Croydon) to Wivelsfield, arriving 10.53

OR

9.50 Brighton-bound train from Victoria (9.56 Clapham Junction, 10.06 East Croydon) to Burgess Hill, changing there (arriving 10.35, departing 10.49) to Wivelsfield, arriving 10.53. The sharp-eyed will have spotted that you can change to the Thameslink train at either East Croydon or Burgess Hill, but the Burgess Hill change is probably slightly easier.

OR

9.50 (Tattenham Corner train) from London Bridge to East Croydon, arriving 10.06, changing there for the 10.19 Thameslink train to Wivelsfield as above

Buy a day return to Wivelsfield. For those travelling from St Pancras or Blackfriars there may still be bargain cheap Thameslink-only fares available, so long as you stick to Thameslink trains on your return. Make the most of these as they will likely not survive the introduction of the exciting new Thameslink timetable in May **

For walk directions click here, for GPX click here.

I have chosen this walk because in the past I have recorded it as good for wood anemones and also bluebells: the latter will only just be starting, if at all: the former should be at their height. The best effect is if the weather is warm when the "wooden ms" open up fully.

Otherwise this is a pleasant Wealden walk. Lunch is in Cuckfield, one of those towns that was bypassed by the railway and hence now has olde world charm. Last time I did this walk I found the "unprepossessing" White Harte a positive 1970s timewarp (note to younger walkers: not a compliment!): I would not be surprised to learn that it has since been moved in its entirety to a museum. But to be fair it did feed us. There is also a posher pub, the Talbot, and several tea rooms as an alternative.

In the afternoon you are on the High Weald Landscape Trail, with some nice views at times, and you pass Borde Hill Garden, which you can visit for a fee: perhaps more to the point, there is a very nice tea place, Elvira's, by its entrance. Otherwise the walk ending is in suburban Haywards Heath, about which one would formerly have had to say that it had no nice tea options. But now there is a whopping big Waitrose by the station with a really very attractive cafe at the front. I am not sure of cafe opening hours, but the store is open till 9pm.

Trains back from Haywards Heath are very frequent: 14 and 44 past to Victoria, 26 and 56 past to Blackfriars and St Pancras, and 17 and 48 past to London Bridge. The Blackfriars (and London Bridge?) trains are the Thameslink ones.

** If you take the Thameslink train back and ride on it from East Croydon to Blackfriars, look out the window and enjoy the experience as it dawdles along, seemingly outside spacetime altogether in some parallel universe of its own, because from May ALL OF THIS WILL BE JUST A MEMORY and there will be lots and lots and lots of fast trains from East Croydon to London Bridge and St Pancras and even Finsbury Park as the new "Thameslink 2000" service comes in, only a couple of decades behind schedule. London Bridge travellers, awake: the long night is (nearly) over!!!

Saturday Walk Bluebell bliss from Sevenoaks to Oxted (or Westerham)

SWC Walk 20 and 68 Combo – Sevenoaks to Oxted (or Westerham) T=SWC.20

Distance: 17.3 Miles or 27.8 km for those more metrically minded for route to Oxted

                11.7 Miles or 18.8 km for the route to Westerham

Difficulty:  6 out of 10

Train:  Take the 9:10 AM Ramsgate train from London Charing Cross (stopping at Waterloo East at 9:13 and London Bridge at 9:20), arriving at Sevenoaks at 9:43.  For those who struggle in the morning, if you miss this train, there are loads more to Sevenoaks, including one at 9:30 AM….so hop aboard and catch us at lunch or before…..

Return trains from Oxted are at 19, 24 and 54 past the hour until 22:19 (for anyone traveling to north London – interestingly you can change onto a Thameslink train at East Croydon). For those finishing in Westerham, catch bus 246 at the stop in the Village Green to Bromley South (buses are at 22 and 52 past the hour until 17:52; then, at 22 past the hour until 20:22) for frequent train service back to London. Buy a day return to Sevenoaks.

An old bluebell favorite along the Greensand ridge with a new twist to continue into Oxted. The walk leaves Sevenoaks via Knole Park and climbs up onto the Greensand Ridge which should hopefully be awash with bluebells almost all the way to Westerham.  You can finish the walk in Westerham by taking a bus to Bromley South. However, as a new twist, I though it would be fun to continue on to Oxted by reversing the morning instructions of SWC 63 which will bring you through some more nice woodland with the potential for further botanical delights.  Whether you opt to finish in Westerham or Oxted, you can find more information about the walk and download the walk instructions for SWC 20 and for SWC 63. If carrying on to Oxted, in addition to the instructions, you should also bring a copy of the map printed from the OS tab on the SWC 63 introduction page to aid in route finding.

The recommended lunch spot is the Cock Inn at Ide Hill (01732 750310), 8 miles into the walk. The Tudor Tea Rooms and the Grasshopper on the Green offer afternoon refreshments before the final leg into Oxted where the Oxted Inn near the station awaits for a final tipple.

Enjoy the Walk!

Wednesday Walk Wakes Colne to Bures to Sudbury - a double header along the Colne Valley and into Gainsborough country

Book 1 Walk 46 - Wakes Colne to Bures 
17.7 km (11 miles), Toughness 5 out of 10

Book 1 Walk 8 - Bures to Sudbury [taking short cut omitting Bulmer Tye] 
13.7 km (8.5 miles), Toughness 4 out of 10

You have a choice of 3 walks today:

1. Standard walk: of 11 miles, a lovely walk through the Colne Valley, with an excellent lunch pub stop.
2. Long walk: of 19.5 miles, a grand double header which combines both Book 1 walks. Toughness 7 out of 10
3. Late Afternoon walk (for workers sneaking off early) of 8.5 miles:.join the long walkers on a lovely walk through Gainsborough country

Travel

Standard and Long Walkers

London Liverpool Street: 10-02 hrs    Ipswich service
Arrive Marks Tey: 10-57 hrs    Change trains
Leave Marks Tey: 11-01 hrs     Sudbury service
Arrive Chappel and Wakes Colne: 11-07 hrs

Afternoon Walkers

London Liverpool Street: 15-02 hrs   Ipswich service
Arrive Marks Tey: 15-57 hrs   Change trains
Leave Marks Tey:  16-01 hrs   Sudbury service
Arrive Bures:   16-13 hrs

Please wait on the platform at Bures for the Long Walkers to meet up with you. (Their e.t.a is 16-15 hrs).  If they do not arrive by 16-20 hrs, please head off on your afternoon walk: they will try to catch up with you.

Return

Bures to Liverpool Street via Marks Tey: 16-39, 17-39, 18-44 hrs
Sudbury to Liverpool Street via Marks Tey: 18-37, 19-38, 20-32 and 21-26 hrs

Rail ticket

Either [for standard walkers] a day return to Bures (pronounced "Bewers") or [for long walkers and afternoon walkers]  a day return to Sudbury, Suffolk

As that is a long pre-amble I will leave it to you to read the notes on the two walks. Both are favourites of mine, and combined make for a rewarding long walk, with plenty of variety.

Your lunch stop (Standard and Long Walkers) is the usually excellent Five Bells in Colne Engaine. 'Phoning ahead recommended  01787-224166. Standard Walkers can take tea in Bures at the Eight Bells.
Afternoon and Long Walkers should try to stop for tea at the delightful Mill Hotel whose cream teas are recommended.
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Directions here for the Bures-Sudbury walk
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Sunday Walk: Kelvedon Circular

SWC Walk 216
Toughness 3/10
Length: 10, 12, or 14.4 miles (16.3, 19.3 or 23.2 km.)
It's spring and, in East Anglia, the winter bus replacements have gone back into storage. The station master has got the train out of the shed and is dusting it down. The good people of Essex can once more thrill to the sound of our boots tramping along their ancient byways.

This is a historic area. Walk highlights include an old mill, medieval abbey buildings, and Grange Barn (said to be the oldest timber-framed building in Europe). The town of Coggeshall, visited at lunchtime, has over 300 listed buildings, many of them medieval, including an ornate 15th C merchants house (Paycockes).
Trains
Take the 10:02 Ipswich train from Liverpool Street, arriving Kelvedon at 11:00.
Return trains at xx:41.
Lunch
There are many options in Coggeshall, see the walk notes. Some of the pubs (e.g. the Chapel Inn and Woolpack) are very old. There's also the Clock House Tea Rooms and, on the full walk, an ancient barn in Marks Hall Gardens serves as a tea room.
Tea
The Bell Inn in Feering (01376 570 375) is passed first. The Sun Inn, Feering Hill (01376 570 442), only 10 minutes from the station, is the recommended stop. Later still, you got the Railway Tavern in Kelvedon. (01376 570293).
Visiting
You can see the outside of  both Grange Barn and Paycockes for free. If you want to look inside, joint admission is £7.50 for non-NT members.  Admission to Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum is £5.75
Walk Directions here.
The shorter options involve cutting out all or part of the Marks Hall loop.

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Sunday walk: Ham Street to Appledore /Appledore Circular

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A choice of not one, not  two, but three walks, exploring Romney Marsh. With a bit of luck you might hear the not-so-dulcet tones of the area's "laughing" frogs - an established colony of European invaders.

• The shortest version, suitable for softies, is the Appledore Circular. Length  13¾ km (8.5 miles), difficulty 2/10. Get off and on the train at Appledore. This takes a more direct route to the lunch pub in Warehorne.
• Walk-hardened regulars can do the main walk, with its rating of 3/10, length 18¼ km (11.3 miles), taking them through Ham St Woods and along the (inland) Saxon Shore Way. They get off the train at Ham St, and get back on again at Appledore.
• Superhumans and god-like beings could extend the main walk even further, starting and finishing at Ham Street. Length 23½ km (14.6 miles), difficulty 4/10. 

Trains You can take either:

• the 10:08 Hi-Speed Margate train from St Pancras (Stratford International  10:15), changing at Ashford International  for the Hastings train (arr. 10:46 dep. 11:21) arriving Ham Street at 11:27 and Appledore at 11:33, (Overall, this route is quicker, particularly returning, but, outbound, there's a long wait at Ashford,)
• or, the slower, cheaper, 9:42 Ashford International train from Victoria, changing at Ashford onto the same Hastings train (arr. 11.02, dep. 11:21).  

Trains return from Appledore at xx:52 (Ham St xx:57), changing again at Ashford International.
Get a return to Appledore.
Lunch The lunchtime stop is the Woolpack Inn (01233-732900) in Warehorne. This attractive pub is open all day and serves excellent home cooked food made from local ingredients. (Hopefully not mud pies!) It can get busy at weekends so good idea to phone. The World's Wonder, mentioned as an alternative appears to have closed.
Tea As well as the Black Lion (01233-758206), Appledore offers “the quintessential English tea time experience” at the delightfully-named Miss Mollett's High Class Tea Room (01233-758555), open to 5pm. You'll need to allow at least half an hour to reach Appledore Station, 2¼ km away.
If you finish in Ham Street, you've got the Duke's Head pub (01233-732210).
Directions here. Click option (M) for the main walk, (a) for the short walk, (b) for the long (or keep all options open by not clicking nothing).

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Saturday Walk: Saunderton Circular via Bledlow

Saunderton Circular via Bledlow  Book 2 Walk 2
11.7 miles, 18.3 km.
Toughness: 6 /10

A fine walk in the Chilterns.
Trains: Take the 10:13 Aylesbury train from Marylebone arriving at Saunderton at 10:55.  Return trains from Saunderton at xx:50
Lunch: The Lions of Bledlow: 01844 343345
Tea:  The Golden Cross near Saunderton station is a great place to wait for the train. For an earlier stop, there is the Boot at Bledlow Ridge.
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Saturday walk - Holmwood to Reigate - a gentle walk with the North Downs as a backdrop

Length: 16.3km (10.1 miles) according to the home page, 15.3km (9.5 miles) according to the pdf
Toughness: 2 out of 10 - very gently undulating

9.31 train from Victoria (9.37 Clapham Junction, 9.59 Sutton) to Holmwood, arriving 10.32.

A day return to Holmwood ought to be accepted on the return journey: the stop before Holmwood is Dorking and return from Dorking via Redhill is perfectly legitimate.

For walk directions click here. For GPX click here.

There are places like the North Downs, the Weald, the Greensand Ridge, and there are bits in between. This walk takes you across one of the bits in between. The North Downs are a pleasant feature on the northern skyline but you never actually walk on them. The only real hill is a ridge to the south of Reigate at the end of the walk.

Hard though it is to believe after the endless grey and cold of March, this is the time when spring really starts to spring. I have no specific information on floral delights on this walk, but this is the kind of territory where flowers ought to be popping up on verges and butterflies flitting between them, if we ever get some suitable weather.

There is one pub for lunch. It has accommodated two parties of midweek walkers without griping in the past year and a quarter, but has not been tried on a Saturday for quite a while. It has a garden if the weather is nice. If it proves booked up, all I can suggest is a (map-led) migration 2-3km to the north to the villages of Brockham and Betchworth, both of which have pubs. You could then switch to the Dorking to Reigate walk (a very pretty walk in spring, but alas too short for most SWC-ers these days): actually, this makes an interesting way to extend the walk, if 10.1/9.5 miles is too short for you.

Once in Reigate there are lots of tea options. To those listed in the walk document, I might add the very nice cafe in the park that you cross as you come into town.

Allow 15 minutes at least to walk to the station from the town centre. Trains back are at 14 past the hour direct to Victoria (38 minutes) or 19 and 34 past to London Bridge, changing at Redhill (48 mins): these London Bridge trains stop at Coulsdon South. T=3.32

Hurst Green to Chiddingstone Causeway

CW2 11 Hurst Green to Chiddingstone Causeway
Length: 21 km (13 miles). Toughness: 6/10

Catch the 9:23 from London Victoria arrives Hurst Green 10:04.

Direct return trains from Penshurst xx:27 until 18:27; following trains change at Tonbridge / Redhill

Travel advice: Linear walk, out on one line and return on another, both lines are operated by Southern. A return ticket to Hever should certainly suffice for the return journey from Penshurst.


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