“A” Group ride 8th August 2007
Nine of us rode out from New Haw Day Centre at 11:10. Up Row Hill to Ottershaw, Stonehills, Gracious Pond, Red Lion Road, Windlesham, Rye Grove, Hook Mill Lane, Lightwater, Ambleside to Red Road Hill. After a regroup the going got easier along the Maultway on the Bagshot Ridges, past reminders of the areas military history. At Deepcut we turned right down Lake Road, home of fat dartplayers, to Frimley Green. The cycle path behind the Green led to Farnborough North Station and “The Prince of Wales” for lunch. The leader pointed out two imposing buildings, once the domain of the last Empress of France, Eugénie, which are sometimes open to public view, but never on Wednesdays. After lunch we left Hampshire via Mytchett and its lake, up Tunnel Hill and down to Pirbright, where Ian left us to visit a friend in Christmas Pie. Because of the local foot-and-mouth episode at the time, we skirted the area and crossed Brookwood Cemetery to Heath House Lane, Saunders Lane, Smarts Heath, Guildford Road, Whitmoor Lane, Jacobs Well Burpham and then along the Old Portsmouth Road through Ripley to Ockham Bites for tea, all done by 3:30
From Vic White
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