Greensand the Town Remained Small and Isolated the Walls and Gate Piers of This 18Th Haslemere (SU 905328) Until the 19Th Century
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The m ap 1 Interesting features 1 Haslemere 5 Church Hill house Greensand The town remained small and isolated The walls and gate piers of this 18th Haslemere (SU 905328) until the 19th century. Old maps show century house are listed monuments clusters of houses only around the High as well as the Queen Anne-style house to Gibbet Hill (SU 899360) Way Street and St Bartholomew’s Church. itself. Church Hill Gate was once the 3¼ miles, allow 1½ hours stables. 2 Town Hall A then turn right, up Stoatley Hollow. Bear Originally built in the 17th century, the 6 St Bartholomew’s Church From the old Town Hall in Haslemere left beside farm buildings and continue Town Hall was rebuilt in a similar style in The church tower dates from the 13th walk along the left side of the High Street uphill. Bear right, beside Puckfold, onto a 1814. It used to have arcades, with the century. The rest of the church (A286 to Guildford). Twenty five yards rough semi-metalled track. Turn right at ground floor open. was rebuilt in the late 19th century. past The Georgian Hotel turn left between the T-junction, and continue for 380 yards. A window by Burne-Jones buildings and follow the footpath to 3 High Street commemorates the poet Tennyson who Church Lane. GSW sign on brickwork. D In the High Street the Town House, lived on Blackdown one mile away. Bear left opposite Little Scotstoun. with Doric doorcase, dates from 1725. B Follow the path through woodland and Sir Edward Whymper, first to climb the 7 Gibbet Hill Cross the road and turn left over the over heath, then go steeply downhill for Matterhorn, once lived here. The Celtic Cross, made of Cornish railway bridge. Bear right at the triangle 650 yards ignoring all side tracks. Cross granite, marks the place where below St Bartholomew’s Church, then a broad track in the valley bottom. Go 4 Haslemere Educational Museum three robbers were hanged on 24 continue up High Lane for 250 yards. ahead uphill. At the top continue ahead, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, a distinguished September 1776, for the murder of At Ventnor, cross to the left side of the skirting gardens. At a junction of tracks surgeon at the London Hospital, an unknown sailor on the London road, then bear right, up a narrow path, take the central track ahead. Continue founded this museum in 1888. to Portsmouth road. between fences. Cross the road and almost to the road (A3). take the field path downhill. E Common for 710 yards. At a seat beneath ways meet. Walk ahead over Gibbet Hill, C Turn back through 45 degrees. Follow trees, leave the main track to bear left leaving the triangulation point on your Turn left along Bunch Lane for 100 yards, a broad, sandy track across Hindhead uphill. Cross an open space where five right and the Celtic Cross to your left. www.surreycc.gov.uk Making Surrey a better place .