The Greensand Ridge at Farley Heath
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Walk directions
Stand in the car park facing the road and walk to the entrance on your righthand side. Cross the road and follow the signposted public bridleway across Farley Heath. Keep to the right at the first fork. When you reach a cross-track beneath telephone lines, take a couple of paces to your left, then continue straight across on the bridleway. Keep straight on again at the five-way junction, and take the fork to the right a few paces further on. As the main track swings round hard to the left, continue down the woodland bridleway straight ahead. You’ll wind gently down to a waymarked post beside a stile; turn right here, and follow the public bridleway for a further 70yds (64m) to a T-junction with Pithouse Lane.
Turn right and follow this deeply rutted sunken lane, with a conifer wood to your right. Pass beneath a wooden footbridge and finally around a metal barrier across the track to meet a narrow tarmac road at Smarkham, a pretty tile-hung property.
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Terrain
- Forest tracks and rutted lanes, running in water after rain
Landscape
- Remote wooded hillsides, occasional farms and cottages
Dog friendliness
- Can mainly run free, lead required for roadside section
Parking
- The Hurtwood Car Park 8 (Roman Temple), on Farley Heath Road
Toilets en route
- None on route
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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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