B Group Sept 1st

From Cobham in ideal cycling weather twenty of us took the direct route to Ripley and on to Pyrford Village, where the aptly named and scenic Sandy Lane took us downhill for half a mile into Pyrford proper. North of Maybury, we joined the Basingstoke Canal, following it for about two miles through the Centre of Woking, and leaving the canal path at Arthur's Bridge. Passing to the East of Goldsworth Park Trading Estate, we took Carthouse Lane and Guildford Road into Chobham, and turned left into Bagshot Road, and right onto Clappers Lane. But I had to give the order to reverse (again!) after initially missing the right turn into the (again!) aptly named , but much narrower than expected, Watery Lane. Emerging from the latter onto Ford Road, we turned East along Windlesham Road and Red Lion Road to lunch ( all twenty of us) in the large and peaceful garden of the Red Lion Pub in Burrow Hill. After a leisurely meal we took Gracious Pond Road and Stonehill Road almost into Chertsey before turning right through Botley Park, Bittams Lane, Green Lane and Victory Park to Addlestone. With a little help from Pete Mitchell, we found the bridge over the railway by the old mill next to the River Wey and proceeded via Weybridge and Walton Bridge to tea at the Walled Garden at Sunbury. John Gould