GO50 WALK PROGRAMME
Guided outdoor activities for the 50 plus age group
WALKING IN AND AROUND SURREY
PROGRAMME July – September 2019
The GO50 programme aims to introduce people in the 50+ age group to a healthier lifestyle and the benefits of regular exercise. Walking with others - socialising as you exercise - adds significantly to the beneficial effects. Regular exercise can: improve balance and flexibility; lower blood pressure; defend against heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes; help maintain cognitive function; reduce depression and anxiety.
We suggest a donation of £2 per person. If you are a taxpayer, we can reclaim the tax on your donations at no extra cost to you, as long as we have your signature and permission to claim Gift Aid. Ask the leader for details. No advanced booking required - just turn up at the start and join in.
GO50 activities are led by experienced volunteers who will meet you at the start and lead the way. Please wear walking boots or other suitable footwear. All walks cross stiles unless otherwise noted. Bring water & a snack. No children or dogs, please. Use pub car parks only if you intend to use the pub afterwards. Please be aware of your own fitness levels and, if in doubt, consult your doctor before starting a new exercise programme. Postcodes given are nearest available to the start and may not correspond to the exact starting point. (T) indicates accessible by public transport. Travel information is available from Traveline on 0871 200 2233 or www.traveline.info
GO50 Health Walks are shorter walks more accessible to beginners run by Age UK Surrey and supported by the national Walking for Health programme. All other walks are run by Age UK Surrey only and are suitable for more experienced walkers
In the event of extreme weather, phone the GO50 office or check the GO50 website before setting off (https://www.ageuk.org.uk/surrey/activities-and-events/go50/). Leaders reserve the right to cancel or amend an activity if they feel that it is unsafe to proceed.
Please take into consideration the distance and description of the walk and if you require assistance with walking, please contact GO50 prior to attending.
All walkers walk at their own risk. We recommend that all participants carry personal identification and emergency contact details with them in case of emergency.
For further information about the GO50 programme or if you are interested in becoming a volunteer activity leader, phone 01483 446662; email [email protected]; write to GO50, Age UK Surrey, Rex House, William Road, Guildford GU1 4QZ or visit our website at https://www.ageuk.org.uk/surrey/activities-and-events/go50/
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HEALTH WALKS Our health walks are ideal for people who would like to improve their health by increasing their physical activity levels. Participants are encouraged to walk at a pace that suits them. The walks are free and no booking is required.
EVERY THURSDAY: St John’s Centre, 222 Epsom Road, Merrow, Guildford GU4 7AA 10am – 11am Walk lasts for 1-1½ hours
TUESDAY JULY 2 LC12 OTTERSHAW WOODLANDS Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Ottershaw Memorial Fields car park: TQ 017 641 / KT16 0NQ From Ottershaw Roundabout where A319 & A320 converge, take A319 and turn immediately right into Foxhills Road and drive for 300m. Park in 2nd carpark on left by swings. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: LYNETTE Lunch: Fairoaks Airport Lovely walk through woods with views of Surrey countryside, golf course, with some quiet lanes joining the woodlands.
WEDNESDAY JULY 3 RH20 HEADLEY - EVENING WALK Distance: 3 miles Meeting Place: The Cock Inn, Headley. TQ 205 548 / KT18 6LE Follow signs from the A24 at Leatherhead. When you get to Headley Common Road, turn left and the pub is on the right just before the church. Start Time: 6:15pm for 6:30pm Leader: ROSEMARY Supper: At the pub after the walk. Heather and dragonflies, and hopefully a sunset. Undulating.
THURSDAY JULY 4 CS19 NORNEY, SHACKLEFORD Distance: 7½ miles Meeting Place: St Mary’s church at junction of Elstead Road and Shackleford Road (on-street parking below church). SU 940 448 / GU8 6AE Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Figure of eight walk: Eashing, River Wey, Godalming, Peper Harow.
TUESDAY JULY 9 ES13 AROUND WEST END Distance: 5 miles Meeting place: Tringham Hall, West End GU24 9JP. Park in layby on Benner Lane SU 946 615 Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ERYL Lunch: optional afterwards A lovely walk acround Brentmoor Heath and upper reaches of the Mill Bourne.
WEDNESDAY JULY 10 RH29 RANMORE COMMON Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: The free Ranmore car park at the west end of Ranmore Common Road, 1 mile west of the paid car park on the left-hand side. TQ 127 502 / RH5 6SY (approx) Start Time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ROSEMARY Lunch: no facilities, but it's a good place for a picnic. Hope to see butterflies and the flowers that this special area is famous for.
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FRIDAY JULY 12 CB01 FARNHAM Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Rear of Upper Hart Car Park, north of West Street, Farnham (charge 60p per hour). SU 837 470 / GU9 7HA Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: CLIVE B Lunch: Numerous pubs in Farnham Town Centre A walk through Farnham Park, part of the town centre and the water meadow.
TUESDAY JULY 16 LC01 BISHOPSGATE WINDSOR GREAT PARK Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Bishopsgate entrance. SU 978 721 / TW20 0XY From A30 Egham Hill take A328 through Englefield Green. Left at 3rd mini-roundabout down Bishopsgate Rd to park gates. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: LYNETTE Lunch: Pub lunch afterwards Superb views - Windsor Castle, across Thames Valley. Beautiful lilies on Cow Pond. Undulating walk through Deer Park and The Village with coffee stop at Olde World Post Office.
THURSDAY JULY 18 CS08 GRAYSWOOD Distance: 6½ miles Meeting Place: Grayswood Village Hall car park opposite the church on A286. SU 917 347 / GU27 2DB Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Hilly circuit, ascending to top of Gibbet Hill and above The Devil’s Punch Bowl.
WEDNESDAY JULY 24 CS13 MICKLEHAM Distance: 7½ miles Meeting Place: Outside “The Running Horses”, Old London Rd (B 2209), off A24; on-street parking uphill from pub. TQ 170 533 / RH5 6DU Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Mole Gap Trail; Westhumble; Views to Boxhill; Fetcham Downs; Norbury Park.
MONDAY JULY 29 CF05 BLACKHEATH Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Main Blackheath car park at end of Blackheath Lane (just past closed Villagers pub). TQ 036 461 / GU4 8RB Start Time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: COLIN Lunch: Percy Arms, Chilworth (optional) Mainly level walk (with one gentle incline) through fields with good North Downs views, starting and ending on the heath. The heather should be at its most colourful.
TUESDAY JULY 30 LC06 VIRGINIA WATER, WINDSOR GREAT PARK Distance: 5 miles Meeting Place: Savill Garden car park or park outside first. SU 977 705 / TW20 0UJ From the A30 take Wick Road/Lane, signposted Savill Garden. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: LYNETTE Lunch: Savill Garden restaurant or coffee shop. An easy walk around the lake, through 18th Century Landscaped Valley Gardens, past Roman Ruins and Polo Fields.
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THURSDAY AUGUST 1 CS29 WITLEY Distance: 7½ miles Meeting Place: Free parking area in Church Lane, 125 yds beyond All Saints church, Witley. SU 945 395 / GU8 5PW Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring picnic Varied walk via Sandhills & Hambledon. Rolling grassland, woods, fields & ponds.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7 CS01 ABINGER COMMON Distance: 7½ miles Meeting Place: Opposite the Abinger Hatch pub. On-street parking. TQ 115 459 / RH5 6HZ Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Holmbury St Mary; Holmbury Hill; Peaslake; Sutton Abinger.
MONDAY AUGUST 12 CB02 FARNHAM Distance: 5 miles Meeting place: Near entrance to the University for the Creative Arts, next to the Upper Hart Car Park, north of West Street, Farnham (charge 60p per hour). SU 837 470 / GU9 7HA Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: CLIVE B Lunch: Cafe in Farnham Park A walk through the Old Farnham Park area of Farnham and also the "New Park" with an opportunity to visit Farnham castle.
TUESDAY AUGUST 13 LC01 BISHOPSGATE WINDSOR GREAT PARK Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Bishopsgate entrance. SU 978 721 / TW20 0XY From A30 Egham Hill take A328 through Englefield Green. Left at 3rd mini-roundabout down Bishopsgate Rd to park gates. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: LYNETTE Lunch: Pub lunch afterwards Superb views - Windsor Castle, across Thames Valley. Beautiful lilies on Cow Pond. Undulating walk through Deer Park and The Village with coffee stop at Olde World Post Office.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14 RH17 DORKING MILTON HEATH Distance: 3 miles Meeting Place: Milton Heath car park. TQ 155 488/ RH4 3JT Follow A25 west out of Dorking, turn L after ½ mile, following brown sign ‘Bury Hill Fisheries’ to the car park. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ROSEMARY Lunch: pub in Westcott optional. Shady short walk exploring the Nower and environs.
THURSDAY AUGUST 15 CS35 WEST HORSLEY Distance: 7¼ miles Meeting Place: Free car park on left of Shere Road, 1km SE from A246 Epsom Road. TQ 084 514 / KT24 6EW Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic We see three of the remaining Lovelace bridges, and then descend to Colekitchen Farm and Netley Park, before returning northwards with good views.
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TUESDAY AUGUST 20 ES24 EAST AND WEST CLANDON AND THE NETHERLANDS Distance: 5 miles Meeting place: Junction of The Street and the disused Old Epsom Road, East Clandon. TQ 059 515 / nearby postcode GU4 7RL Turn off the A246 into The Street, East Clandon (signposted HMP Send Ripley, and The Queen's Head) and proceed for 50 yards before turning right or left to park on Old Epsom Road. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ERYL Lunch: optional afterwards A lovely walk through deciduous woods and fields with fantastic views. Some long but gradual slopes up and down.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21 CS23 SOUTH HOLMWOOD Distance: 7¾ miles Meeting Place: Free car park in Mill Road, 125 yds from the junction with A24 at South Holmwood, signed Leigh, Brockham. TQ 173 451 / RH5 4NR Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Ascend on field and woodland paths to Coldharbour church, then up to Leith Hill tower for a picnic at the highest point in Surrey.
FRIDAY AUGUST 23 CF07 SHALFORD AND THE RIVER WEY Distance: 3½ miles Meeting Place: Far end of Clifford Manor Road. TQ 003 481 / GU48AQ Turn east off A281 ½ mile south of Guildford along Pilgrims Way; take 2nd right, Clifford Manor Road,and proceed to far end. On-street parking, 4 hour limit. (T) Bus 24, 32, 53, 63 Start Time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: COLIN Lunch: Queen Victoria, Shalford, GU4 8BY (optional) Mainly flat walk with some short inclines and steps, via Shalford Mill, Park, and Water Meadows and along the river.
TUESDAY AUGUST 27 LC11 ENGLEFIELD GREEN to RUNNYMEDE Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Englefield Green near Barley Mow Pub. SU 991 713 / TW20 0NX From the A30 Egham Hill take A328 through Englefield Green. After 2nd mini roundabout, turn left and park alongside The Green. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: LYNETTE Lunch: Barley Mow Pub Enjoy walk to RAF Memorial with views across 5 counties, down to Runnymede, coffee stop; Chair Sculptures, Magna Carta and Kennedy Memorials and back up steps through woods.
THURSDAY AUGUST 29 CS25 TILFORD Distance: 8 miles Meeting Place: Free riverside parking area near The Barley Mow at Tilford Green. SU 872 434 / GU10 2BU Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic A walk beside both the north and south branches of the River Wey (which meet at Tilford), and Frensham Little Pond.
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4 CS02 BLACKHEATH Distance: 7½ miles Meeting Place: Free car park at the end of Blackheath Lane. TQ 036 461 / GU4 8RB Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Chinthurst Hill with the folly at the summit; Great Tangley; Tillingbourne stream and ruined gunpowder mill.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12 CS17 EWHURST Distance: 7¼ miles Meeting Place: Free sports field car park at the end of Broomers Lane off The Street in Ewhurst. TQ 090 401 / GU6 7RD Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Ascend steeply Pitch Hill, and cross to Holmbury Hill via the Duke of Kent School, returning across fields.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17 ES20 RIVERSIDE NATURE RESERVE AND WEY NAVIGATIONS Distance: 5 miles Meeting place: Riverside Nature Reserve car park, Bowers Lane off Clay Lane, Burpham TQ 012 527 / GU4 7ND Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ERYL Lunch: Optional afterwards An interesting walk to Stoke Park and back along the oldest part of the Wey Navigations by Stoke Lock and Bower's Lock.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 CS15 OCKLEY Distance: 7½ miles Meeting Place: Outside the cricket pavilion in School Lane off A29, at the south end of the playing fields. Free parking. TQ 145 398 / RH5 5TS Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Pleasant and undemanding clockwise circuit, passing through Vann Lake nature reserve, and discovering the secluded church of St John the Baptist, Okewood.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 RH19 DORKING WATERMILL Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Watermill Restaurant, 1 mile E of Dorking on A25. TQ 179 501/RH4 1NN Start time 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ROSEMARY Lunch: optional at the Watermill New route following the River Mole to the Stepping Stones. Undulating.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19 LC01 BISHOPSGATE WINDSOR GREAT PARK Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Bishopsgate entrance. SU 978 721 / TW20 0XY From A30 Egham Hill take A328 through Englefield Green. Left at 3rd mini-roundabout down Bishopsgate Rd to park gates. Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: LYNETTE Lunch: Pub lunch afterwards Superb views - Windsor Castle, across Thames Valley. Beautiful lilies on Cow Pond. Undulating walk through Deer Park and The Village with coffee stop at Olde World Post Office.
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CANCELLED - FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 CB03 CRONDALL Distance: 5 miles Meeting place: Crondall Church, Croft Lane. SU 794 485 / GU10 5QF (park beside churchyard wall) Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: CLIVE B Lunch: Plume of Feathers, Crondall GU10 5NT Walk over undulating farmland with good views.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 RH32 MICKLEHAM Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Rykas car park, opposite Burford Bridge Hotel off the A24. TQ 171 521 / RH5 6BY Start time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: ROSEMARY Lunch: Optional at Stepping Stones pub across the A24. One climb up the back of Box Hill; wonderful views and gentle descent.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 CS30 WOTTON HATCH Distance: 7¾ miles Meeting Place: Free car park behind Wotton Hatch Hotel on A25. TQ 126 476 / RH5 6QQ Start Time: 10.30 Leader: CLIVE Lunch: Bring a picnic Through the Wotton Estate to Friday Street, returning via Broadmoor, and Surrey’s highest waterfall.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 CF24 HASCOMBE HILL Distance: 4 miles Meeting Place: Opposite The White Horse, The Street, Hascombe (B2130). TQ 001 394 / GU8 4JA Start Time: 10.15 for 10.30 Leader: COLIN Lunch: The White Horse, Hascombe (optional) A hilly walk up Hascombe Hill with wonderful views. Park in pub car park if lunching.