Saturday, October 22, 2016

B Group ride from Addlestone. 19th October.


18 of us left Addlestone for a 15 mile ride to West End nr Bisley to have lunch at the Hare & Hounds. The pub is tucked away down a side road and easily over looked and I only found it after zooming in on google maps, looked at their website and gave them a call. I hadn’t found it when I was doing the recce – I had another pub in mind. Tim’s photos give a good idea of what it is like. The staff were very welcoming and the food and beer excellent. It deserves a return visit.

Getting there was straight forward enough. We carried our bikes over the rail bridge behind Chertsey and continued off-road along Ferry Lane. After Laleham Reach we took the obvious route through Thorpe to Virginia Water, Longcross, Valley End and the minor roads into West End.

I had been tempted to use Blind Lane (more off-road and in very good condition except the recce showed that at the very end a fencing contractor had turned it into 30 metres of quagmire). I gave it a miss this time.

After lunch we continued westwards down Brentmoor Road and turned into Priest Lane (I missed the turn initially) – more unpaved road. If we have a continuous spell of rain this will be impassable but for us it was OK on the day.

Thanks to Bob’s local knowledge we were able to ignore the road closed signs approaching Bisley. We made our way down to the canal via Knaphill and along to West Byfleet where a number peeled off. The rest of us stopped for at tea at the Bourne Valley GC. – 11 miles from lunch.

My thanks to Tim for the photos, maps and being TEC and to all who marked the corners.

Peter T

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