Start/Finish: North M25 This is a circular route and can be started at any stage of the trail. Sandpits Common Distance: Duration: Sands at Bleak House 3.5 miles 2 hours Old Sandpits 5 P Alternative route – – – – – 4 Follow the towpath.

WOTW = War of the Worlds (A3406) HILL KETTLEWELL

SHORES ROAD (A245) 6 3 Six Crossroads CARLTON ROAD P CHERTSEY ROAD (A320) WOODHAM ROAD (A245) The Wheatsheaf PINEWOOD Subway CLOSE

WOODHAM ROAD7 (A245) Peace Garden

WOODHAM RISE

Horsell ROAD MONUMENT Village 8

CHOBHAM ROAD Wheatsheaf Bridge 9 (Horsell Bridge H.G. Wells in WOTW) Wells’ House Wheatsheaf P Common CHERTSEY ROAD (A320) Monument Bridge (Ottershaw Bridge 2 in WOTW) 10 BREWERY ROADP 11

Towpath HILL MAYBURY Town Gate 12 P MAYBURY ROAD Chertsey Road Town 13 Basingstoke Canal Centre BROADWAY 1 Shah Jahan Mosque Bus Station Narratorʼs Railway Station House The Wells in Woking Heritage Trail @wellsinwoking

1 Woodham Lane (A245) (by a large 7 Woodham Road Way has a local heritage collection, H.G. Wells to Wells’ house road sign). Take care crossing the Exiting the car park take care café, toilets and is free to enter, On 21 September 2016, H.G.Wells’ Exit the station via Platform 1 (the road and continue on the woodland crossing Shores Road (A245) and (closed Mondays). 150th birthday, a bronze sculpture town side). Turn right onto path that leads round the back of All pick up the footpath, which cuts of the author was unveiled. Called Broadway, walk past the bus station, Saints Church. across to Woodham Road. In 1895 Subway the Novelist and Thinker, the and continue straight ahead. As the this area would have been nurseries, The mural in the subway depicts sculpture was designed by local road starts to curve left (on to 4 Sands at Bleak House farmland and orchards. Cross the the landing on Horsell artist Wesley Harland. Stanley Road), continue straight You will arrive in the car park of road and follow the footpath to Common and the destruction of ahead on to Maybury Road. The Sands at Bleak House. In The League Carlton Road. Turn left along Carlton Woking by the tripods. The mural Town Gate railway line will be on your right. of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a widely Road and continue straight until you also features local landmarks Located between Christchurch Continue to the end of the road, praised graphic novel by Alan Moore reach Chertsey Road (A320). including the Shah Jahan Mosque and Barclays Bank, the Town which will take you past Wells’ and Kevin O’Neill, Dr Henry Jekyll and Maybury Arch. Gate, designed by Alan Dawson, former home, 141 Maybury Road. and Edward Hyde stayed overnight 8 Pinewood Close outlines key elements in Woking’s at Bleak House Inn when Turn right onto Chertsey Road 11 Cross Victoria Way history: the Basingstoke Canal, Cross the Victoria Way dual Wells’ House investigating the Martian invasion. and walk along the A320 until you the railway, Scots pine trees and Called ‘Lynton’, this is the house reach Pinewood Close. At the carriageway, either by subway or brickmaking. The Wellsian link is Wells, aged 28, rented with his 5 Sandy Track entrance of Pinewood Close, next using the road crossing, to make represented through a silhouette partner Jane, who he would make Take care crossing Chertsey to the telegraph pole, pick up the your way into the Town Centre. of a Martian fighting machine. his second wife during his stay. Road (A320) and join the path next footpath that leads you onto Upon reaching Christchurch Way to the telephone box. Continue Woodham Rise. you arrive at the site of the 13 Celebrating Woking’s 2 Monument Bridge ahead until you arrive at a wide commemorative sculpture of Wellsian heritage At the end of Maybury Road, sandy track. Turn left and make your 9 Wheatsheaf Common H.G. Wells. Run away from the Martian tripod in turn left onto Monument Road. Walk way to the Sandpits, located on your Cross the road and continue the direction of O’Neills and over the Basingstoke Canal via left side. along the footpath through 12 The Martian continue straight, which will bring Monument Bridge (Ottershaw Wheatsheaf Common, keeping to Follow the road ahead and an you to Chertsey Road, where you Bridge in WOTW). Cross over the Sandpits the right, until you reach imposing Martian tripod should come will find a concentration of bars and road, walk a short distance through The large sandpit, referred to Wheatsheaf Recreational Ground. into view. Walk towards “the walking restaurants. Woking’s Wellsian the woods to Woking’s Muslim Burial locally as ‘The Beach’, is often At the far end of the recreation engine of glittering metal”, located heritage has inspired a number of Ground Peace Garden, which was depicted as the Martians’ landing ground, across the road, you will centrally in Crown Square, less than a local businesses to use references to restored in 2015. site because it is easy to imagine see The Wheatsheaf public house. mile from where Wells lived. his work in building their brands. that the pond occupies the Peace Garden crater-like dent made by the first The Wheatsheaf Martian Chertsey Road Wells wrote extensively about cylinder from Mars. Further along Formerly called The Wheatsheaf The tripod is seven metres Wetherspoons’ pub, The war. The burial ground was the track, partially hidden by trees, Inn this is the public house near tall. Nearby a cylindrical pod, Herbert George Wells, houses established by the War Office to is an older sandpit, closer to the Horsell Bridge where Ogilvy resembling those in which the an Invisible Man sculpture and a ensure Muslim soldiers defending site where Ogilvy discovered the encountered a postman when Martians arrived, can be seen time machine on the ceiling. An Britain in the First and Second Martian cylinder. rushing to Woking with news of ploughing into the ground. Patterns interesting collection of historical World Wars could be buried the Martians. in the paving represent the shock photographs of Woking is according to their religious rights. 6 To Six Crossroads car park waves resulting from the pod’s displayed around the venue. With the large sandy beach in 10 Horsell Bridge landing. Also set in the pavement 3 All Saints Church front of you, either walk round the With The Wheatsheaf in front is the bacteria responsible for A couple of doors along, the Ogilvy Leaving the Peace Garden, left of it following the wide footpath, of you, turn left onto Road eventually destroying the invaders. celebrates the astronomer who stick to the main footpath and or cut diagonally across the sandpit, (A3046) and cross over the One stone, under the tripod’s discovered the Martian cylinder. continue through the common in to make your way to the Six Basingstoke Canal using Horsell leg shows the bacteria creeping the direction of the Six Crossroads Crossroads car park. Bridge. The Lightbox Museum and upwards to destroy the seemingly From here you can make your way roundabout. You will emerge on Gallery on the junction of Victoria invincible invader. back to Woking Railway Station.