This heritage trail takes in the sprawling wooded paths around Wotton TILLINGBOURNE TRAILS House, one of the valley’s most popular former country houses. Explore the historic milling hamlets and garden features of the area, including the ornamental cascade at Broadmoor, taking in the scenic countryside, wood- Wotton land and millponds along the way. Length 5 km Duration approx. 2 hours Moderate level of difficulty START from car park behind the Wotton For more details, download the printable pdf (www.tillingbournetales.co.uk/places/trails) Turn left at the pond corner Hatch (RH5 6QQ) and follow the road (Noons pub on the A25, by Corner), with the pond on Wotton Village Hall. your right. Just past the pond take the small path on the Take the path on the left side of the village hall as it runs START right into the woods and up diagonally across the field, and then cross over the stile the hill. onto Wotton Drive. Turn left and follow the drive Continue on the path as towards Wotton House. At it crosses the two roads. the end of the hedge on the Where it comes to a fork, left of the drive, cross the go right and downhill, stile. Take the path on the left cutting behind the side of the field, crossing over houses. Then go left, the Tillingbourne and into the downhill between woods. gardens, to meet the road at Broadmoor hamlet. Wotton was conveyed to George Evelyn in 1579, though Turn left along the road, it is the Italian gardens of the following it around the 1640s for which the estate is bend to the point where best known. Restoration and it forks to the right. further garden alterations took Take this path, which place in the 1860s, including a continues along the deer and kangaroo paddock. Greensand Way into the Wotton Estate. *note it is worth following the drive down to take a look at Wotton House (now a private hotel which you can visit or have a drink at), before returning to the path* Carry on past the waterfall. Follow the track south along the valley to the Friday Street The ornamental cascade is millpond. As you walk along this tributary, you can see a supplied by a contour leat of the number of small ponds through the trees. Tillingbourne, constructed c.1738 by the Dutchman Mr Jacobsen as As the path becomes a set piece of illustrious garden- paved, follow it until you landscaping. Originally, it was reach Friday Street by part of an intricate system, the corner of the pond complete with pavilion, statues corner. The building on and ornamental urns. your left is the site of the old corn mill. Continue following The mill pond in the hamlet of Friday the path/track *note you may wish to Street is all that remains of the former (Greensand Way), take a detour along mill site, other than the associated eventually onto a the right (western) 17th century cottages and millhouse. house drive and side of the pond, into Its corn mill is likely late 16th century Sheephouse Lane. the hamlet of Friday in origin, though its high dam and Street and the Steph- slag have also led to speculation of use as an iron mill. Regardless, the an Langton Inn* mill closed down c. 1736, likely for As you approach the steepening the water gradient as part A25, go left and follow of Evelyn’s estate landscaping. Walking route the road 400m back to the pub car park and Start Point. © License No. 100019613
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Wildlife of the Tillingbourne
Get involved Despite the tranquil beauty of the Tillingbourne, recent investigations by the Environment Agency showed its ecological status is still in need of improvement. The Surrey Wildlife Trust’s River Search project teaches volunteers to manage invasive Alder non-native species during conservation action days, in order to survey, monitor and improve the river Alder (Alnus glutinosa) is a common tree of riversides, habitat over time.
fens and wet woodlands, easily recognised by its To find out more, visit www.surreywildlifetrust.org rounded leaves and purplish buds. It has both male and female flowers: long yellow-brown catkins and small red ‘cones’ that ripen when pollinated.
The exposed roots of alders can provide fish with shelter from predators or high flows, and their leaves food for invertebrates such as caddis fly and water
beetle larvae. TILLINGBOURNE TRAILS Alder’s wood does not The Surrey Hills Society is an independent charity rot under water, and was which encourages people to explore, protect and used historically for the enhance the local landscape, including that of the shoring-up of canals and Tillingbourne. In order to do this, volunteers are riverbanks, as well as for needed to help organise and support walks, talks and making charcoal. events for members, as well as various conservation Wotton projects within the AONB.
The Surrey Wildlife Trust manages almost 8,000 For more info, see www.surreyhills.org/society hectares of land in Surrey (5% of the county) with the aim of creating a better future for the local wildlife, and for the enjoyment of local Other links Explore more than 5km of people. Wotton Parish Council - wooded paths and beautiful wottonpc.wordpress.com To get involved, whether through volunteering, Surrey Hills AONB - www.surreyhills.org countryside, including the mill donating or adopting species to protect, please Surrey Heritage (Exploring Surrey’s Past) - ponds at Friday Street find out more and visit www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/ www.surreywildlifetrust.org 1st edition 2016 Tillingbourne Tales HLF project - www.tillingbournetales.co.uk