A few weeks ago the plan was to stretch our legs on a fine spring day. Well part of it came true but it was hardly spring-like. From Effingham a dozen of us took the familiar route up Green Dene towards Shere and then down through Albury to Wonersh. After Bramley, the second hill of the day was up to Snowdenham and Iron Lane to reach Munstead Heath.
The fast climbers were wondering whether to go left or right at Brighton Road but the answer was to go round the trees ahead and straight on to join Hambledon Road. At Hydestyle we turned right to Enton Green and along the aptly named Water Lane to Wormley. A short stretch of the A283 led us to Brook Road, at the end of which was the Dog and Pheasant in Brook.
We had been asked to preorder as they were serving 45 at a retirement party in their function room and food service might be a bit slow. In fact they excelled themselves (apart from mistakenly tearing up our order which had been carefully reassembled in small pieces on the bar!) with good food being promptly served. So we were away about 2pm to tackle Church Lane, the one real hill of the afternoon followed by a swift descent to Witley.
A series of lanes around Milford avoided the traffic en route to Eashing Lane and then we skirted Godalming past the church and Chalk Lane. After that it was the familiar trudge, but with the wind against us, up the A3100/246 though Guildford to Squires at West Horsley. For me, living only 5 miles from Effingham it was a modest 50 miles but around 70 for those living north of Kingston.
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