Friday, September 07, 2007

B Group Sept 5th

Cliff led a group of 11, including Gill, Judy, Liz, (ladies first) Bernard, Norman, Nev, John G, Les and Neil and who have I forgotten! We exited Cobham via Downside Road, right at Plough lane and over Martyr's Green to the B3289, where we turned right and a left at Guileshill Lane down to Hungry Hill.
Turning right at Tithesbarnes Lane we joined the A247 to West Clandon and to the traffic lights on the A25.
Here to avoid the heavy traffic to Guildford, we crossed forward to Dorking and met our first real hill of the day climbing to just short of Newlands Corner,. not too many joyful faces at this! Turning right we took the small downhill and rough road back to Merrow and turned left back onto the A25. A left at Tangier Road took us up the aptly named Tangier heights [our second nasty hill which our leader failed to climb] and took a left.
We continued to White Lane and along the downs with lovely views through a series of impressive properties, all having extensions to already big houses, such is having money. At the T junction we turned into Albury and through to a right turn at New Road. At the top of another hill it was a left turn into Park Road and to lunch at the William IVth at Little London. We all enjoyed lunch mostly Sandwiches, but pretty good as the other options were fairly big meals and a bit pricy.
Out of the Pub we turned left up to the railway bridge south of Shere and turned into Hook Lane, Keeping left we went into Pursers Lane and then left at Hoe Lane and at the end turned right onto the B2126. And left at The Volunteer took us into Raikes hollow and then Raikes Lane up to the A25 and thence to Dorking and Denbies for tea where we the A team before splitting for home. I clocked 51miles.

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