Lord Beaverbrook's Cherkley Court
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Walk directions
Two bridleways diverge from the car park in Mill Way. Take the right-hand fork, with the fence and Tyrell’s Wood Golf Course on your right, and drop gently down through a tunnel of trees. Leaving views of the golf course behind, you pass a field on your left and then cross Stane Street at a four-way signpost. Keep straight on, signed to Givons Grove, and cross the drive to Cherkley Court at Upper Lodge.
The track narrows at the lodge and continues downhill for a further 800yds (730m). Just as the path sinks into a shallow cutting, a footpath crosses your route. There’s a waymarker post here; turn left and climb gently past the houses and gardens backing onto the hedge on your right.
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Terrain
- Fenced, easy-to-follow tracks around estate boundary
Landscape
- Wooded, with some views across surrounding valleys
Dog friendliness
- Watch out for rabbits and deer
Parking
- Small parking area on Mill Way, almost opposite Nower Wood Educational Nature Reserve
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
Cherkley Court began life as a kind of ‘granny annexe’, when the wealthy Midlands industrialist Abraham Dixon built the great house in the late 1860s as his retirement home. The Surrey countryside clearly suited him, for he lived at Cherkley until his death nearly 40 years later. Meanwhile,...
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About the area
Surrey is one of England’s most wooded counties, with over a quarter of the landscape designated as an official AONB and plenty of history evident in the countryside. You’ll find sandy tracks, cottage gardens and welcoming village inns, and on the fringe of Greater London you can picnic in Chaldon’s hay meadows, explore the downs at Epsom, or drift idly beside the River Thames.
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