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Woking & District Group of the Ramblers web: http://www.wokingramblers.org walk list: www.ramblers.co.uk/programmes/online.php?group=SR08 Programme Number: 88 Months: March - June Year(s): 2015 GR: Grid reference. Recommended maps: Ordnance Survey 1:25000 Explorer series. Car Share: Car share is entirely voluntary and pick-up cannot be guaranteed. Share Code: H = Horsell Rise (TQ002595) P = Pyrford Common CP (TQ028591) PH, Cafe: Public House or cafe close to lunch stop, but food may not always be available. Refreshments: Allow up to half an hour for each mile and bring adequate food and drink for the duration of the walk. Updates: Details could change. Please check on both the above web sites for the latest information or check with the leader close to the date, especially if severe weather is expected. Car Meeting Place, GR & Dist Share Leader, phone Date Time Walk Area & General Comments Explorer Map (miles) time & number code Hurtwood Control CP No. A clockwise circuit in the countryside around Sutton Brian 14 (just after Holmbury St Abinger via Hoe, Rad Lane, Raikes Farm, Abinger 01483 480651 Mary YHA at top of Common, Felday Houses Radnor Lane, off B2126 Wednesday 10:00 between Sutton Abinger 5.25 - 25/2/2015 and Holmbury St Mary) GR TQ103449 Exp 146 Thursley Village playing Walking along Kettlebury Hill, and over Elstead and Erica Sunday field Ockley Commons. Bring picnic. - PH - assistance 09:15 01483 770484 10:00 9 1/3/2015 GR SU899398 dogs only P Exp 133 Pond CP on Old Lane. We start the walk on Ockham Common and make Sheila Reached off the A3/M25 the gentle rise to the Semaphore Tower. We then go 07890 473206 slip road. It is the second over the M25, along the banks of the River Mole Thursday CP on this road and is almost into Cobham. We return through Downside 10:00 6 - 5/3/2015 past the one with toilets back over the M25 and through fields to Ockham and a café Common and the CP. Expect mud! - assistance GR TQ079583 dogs only Exp 145 N.E. end of Spiceall Compton, Hog's Back, The Mount, Loseley Park. Anne (houses # 54-74), off The Undulating with a climb up to the Hog's Back - but 01483 234757 Saturday Street, Compton, GU3 with pub at end. Joint walk with Mole Valley Group. 10:00 7 - 7/3/2015 1JF GR SU961469 Exp 145 Park on the verge at the A walk mainly across farming country with plenty to Graham lane junction of Polstead see en route. Walking through Compton, Littleton 07773 369149 Thursday Lane with Withies Lane, and Binscombe. There will be mud in places. - 10:00 5 - 12/3/2015 Compton assistance dogs only GR SU963470 Exp 145 Car park adjoining N.E. Stroll near the Wey to Waverley Abbey and Moor Des Saturday side of Tilford Green Park, returning to Tilford via wood and heathland. 09:10 01483 772692 10:00 6 14/3/2015 GR SU873434 Pub at end. H Exp 145 Shere Village Hall CP Countryside around Shere - short climb - PH and Jane B Wednesday 10:00 GR TQ073480 5 café at end - assistance dogs only - 01932 343849 18/3/2015 Exp 145 Broadmoor Hill CP, Through woodlands and farmland of the Surrey Hills, Brian Sheephouse Lane. via the Jacob's Walk path to the top of Leith Hill, then 01483 480651 (Sheephouse Lane is a Leith Hill Place Wood, Buckinghill Farm, Betchetts turn off the A25 at the Green, Redlands Wood, Abinger Forest, Tilling Wotton House PH; CP is Springs. Several ups and downs. Please bring a Sunday 09:15 10:00 1.75 miles on left.) - 11 picnic lunch. 22/3/2015 H Please note some road atlases show the CP as being in Leyland’s Road. GR TQ132454 Exp 146 Fishpool Car Park, From Gracious Pond, a wander around Chobham Jane W Gracious Pond Road, Common and back. Meet at car park - assistance 01932 351589 Thursday 10:00 Chobham 5 dogs only - 26/3/2015 GR SU993635 Exp 160 Page 1 of 4 Car Meeting Place, GR & Dist Share Leader, phone Date Time Walk Area & General Comments Explorer Map (miles) time & number code Start from Lakeside Car An exploration of transport routes in the Blackwater Anne, SE Berks Park, Ash. From B3411 Valley - Joint walk with South East Berkshire 0118 978 5520 turn west under railway Ramblers. Sunday bridge on Lakeside Road. 10:00 5.5 - 29/3/2015 Car park is shortly on the left. GR SU891518 Exp 145 Monument CP, Chobham We start walking across Chobham Common, north of Sheila Road, B383 (second CP the M3 (where, if we are lucky we may see some 07890 473206 on road past the Dartford Warblers). Past the 'Tank Factory' and roundabout just north of Oystershell Hill. Then we continue walking south of the M3) the M3, over Chobham Common, along Tank Hill, Wednesday 10:00 GR SU964654 5 through the Bee Garden (ancient earthworks), on to - 1/4/2015 Exp 160 Brick Hill and via Fox Hill back to the CP. Despite the several hills, this walk is gently undulating with only short steep climbs/descents. We may be lucky and get mud! - assistance dogs only Pirbright Green CP on A gentle walk from Pirbright village passing through Malcolm Ave De Cagny (bounds fields, woodland and heathland. Passes 'St Michael 07437 200021 North side of green), at and All Angels Church' - one of few examples of a Saturday junction with the A324 on Georgian church in Surrey. Sir Henry Stanley of "Dr 10:00 5 - 4/4/2015 western end Livingstone I presume?" is buried in the churchyard. GR SU946559 Also of note is the, now private, Manor House dating Exp 145 from 16th century. - PH In byway near Stratfield Walking through West End to the Roman ruins at Erica Monday Mortimer Church Silchester, returning through Mortimer Village and 09:00 01483 770484 10:00 11.5 6/4/2015 GR SU669642 Wokefield Common. - assistance dogs only - PH H Exp 159 Roadside parking opp. The Hoe Valley Path (not marked on OS maps) Brian Mayford Arms PH on passes through "a mosaic of woodland, wet and dry 01483 480651 B380 Guildford Road meadows and Woking Park" in the south of Woking - Sunday (turn off A320 towards we walk the entire length - then across Hoebridge 10:00 10.25 - 12/4/2015 Old Woking at Mayford Golf Course, along the Wey Navigation towpath from roundabout) Walsham Lock to Cartbridge (Send), and across GR SU996560 fields to Lower Westfield Farm. Picnic lunch. Exp 145 King William IV, The Farmland, common and woods with one short steady Jane B Street, West Horsley (use climb - Lunch at King William IV - Walkers and non- 01932 343849 Tuesday 10:00 pub's car park) 5 walkers are welcome at lunch from 12.30pm – see - 14/4/2015 GR TQ078528 Newsletter for more details or email Exp 145 [email protected] Woking Station This is a linear walk from Petersfield to Rowlands Clare (TQ006586) to catch Castle. Buy a return ticket to Rowlands Castle. The 01483 721878 09:55 train to Petersfield, walk traces the route once used to transport timber 07729 498387 arriving at 10:31. from the forest at Alice Holt to the docks at Saturday GR SU743235 Portsmouth. It winds through some of the most idyllic 10:35 12 - 18/4/2015 Exp 133/120 countryside in Hampshire and a succession of rural villages. Please bring a picnic lunch. If any walkers would like to meet at Petersfield Station, please ring the leader to let her know. - assistance dogs only Shackleford CP at the Through fields and woods with gentle rises with a Graham junction of The Street and little road walking to link. We will detour to cross the 07773 369149 Grenville Road, or on A3 safely. The walk by-passes Hurtmore and goes Wednesday road near by, if small CP through Lower Eashing, Peper Harow and 10:00 5 - 22/4/2015 is full. CP is close to the Shackleford - assistance dogs only please Aldro School GR SU935453 Exp 145 Farnham Station Walk the North Downs Way from the start in Clare GR SU844465 Farnham to Guildford. Catch the 09:30 train from 01483 721878 Exp 145 Woking and return to Woking from Guildford on the 07729 498387 bus. Alternatively, go by car and park at Farnham Saturday Station. The cost for the day is £2. Return to 10:05 12 - 25/4/2015 Farnham from Guildford on the number 65 bus. The walk will pass through Seale and Puttenham and pass the Watts Gallery. There is plenty of open countryside for lovely views. - assistance dogs only - café Page 2 of 4 Car Meeting Place, GR & Dist Share Leader, phone Date Time Walk Area & General Comments Explorer Map (miles) time & number code Chinthurst Hill CP (on Wey South Path, St John's Seminary, the Tangleys Jane B B2128 near junction with with good views 01932 343849 Wednesday 10:00 A248) 5 - 29/4/2015 GR TQ014463 Exp 145 Cowleaze Wood CP, Walking through bluebell woods to Wormsley Park, Erica Sunday Stokenchurch North End and Christmas Common. Some steep 08:50 01483 770484 10:00 11 3/5/2015 GR SU726958 inclines. Bring picnic. - PH - assistance dogs only H Exp 171 Sandy Track CP, Shores Local walk starting in Horsell Common, walking Sheila Road at the west end of through woods and fields to Chobham. Then back 07890 473206 Horsell Common near to along the banks of the Mill Bourne via Emmetts Mill Thursday the junction with returning through Horsell Common to the CP.