B Group - 29th May (maps)

We followed Ed for 17 miles from The Vineries garden centre in Effingham over a hilly but very enjoyable and well designed route to The Jack Phillips in Godalming. Heading out we passed St Lawrence Church where the grave of Sir Barnes Wallis can be found. Thence along the Orestan Lane and the fresh new surface on Calvert Road and Dirtham Lane. After East Clandon we wound our way up Staple Lane and zoomed down Coombe Bottom. We turned off at Silent Pool to pass through Albury and Chilworth. A little way beyond Wonersh we rode along a stretch of the Downs Link (following the disused Cranleigh Line of the The Guildford and Horsham Direct Railway) after stopping to read the plaques in the Bramley and Wonersh Station which commemorated the bombing of the station by a German plane in 1942 and the people who died in the attack.

Entering Godalming we passed near the memorial to the hero of the Titanic disaster, Jack Phillips who had been the Chief Wireless Telegraphist on the ship. After a most satisfying lunch at the Wetherspoons, which also bears his (Jack Phillips') name, Ed took us back to the Sainsburys café in Cobham via Guildford, East Clandon and Ockham, another 17 miles. We had put our raincoats on soon after midday but barely got wet at all.

- Tim