Our ride began with Guildown Road, the thinking man’s way up to the Hogs Back and the traffic-free route to the Watts Gallery and Puttenham before joining the quiet country road through Shackleford and near Elstead before turning East to Milford and The Refectory for lunch. This is the only pub available in the area, with prompter service than we have seen lately. This left us with time to spare for a stop in Lower Eashing, a picturesque corner seldom visited by club runs. At the end of Half-way Lane a hushed walk through someones garden led to Washbrook, bypassing Godalming en route to Catteshall, where the leaders memory failed him and instead of taking the eastbound path past Tannachie we found ourselves on a southbound path to Unsted, which traverses the Folkestone Beds, nowhere near the beach but with sand. We got to exercise our walking legs, but the long descent from Unsted led to the Horsham Road near Bramley where part of the original plan was salvaged and we arrived at the Shalford café at a civilised teatime. From here the tarmacked cycle path led us back to Guildford just as the promised rain set in for the evening, by which time most of the riders were back in the train, except for two diehards who rode home, in capes. All this ride fits into Surrey Cycle Guide No.4
~ Vic
Much of Vic's ride today was on-road, as the first map shows. Detail of some of the off-road sections is shown here in the second map, on OS Explorer.
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| Ed and Terry tunnelling through the shrubbery |
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| Photo from Stephanie |
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