Walks 2021 November

November 2021            Circular Walk:       From: The Kings Head, Rudgwick      Distance: 3.8 Miles.     Lunch at the Kings Head

Weather:      Good walking weather. Dry, Warm and Bright!

We Started from the Pub car park, on the opposite of the road from the pub. Turning left we followed the pavement alongside Church Street until we turned right onto a footpath. This led us across a field to reach a well surfaced bridle path, turning right we were now on Bowcroft Lane, originally part of the old road from Horsham to Cranleigh. (This route was once so muddy, as to be completely impassable throughout the winter months.)

Keeping to the path, we continued south, at Godley’s Copse the path made a small diversion to avoid the grounds of a large house. When we reached Swaynes Farm we paused to look at a well-worn memorial grave stone. It commemorates Holford Secretan, son of the family at Swaynes, who was killed in the Second Word War.

On reaching the A281 Guildford Road we turned sharp right onto the Downs Link. This bridleway is the track of the old Guildford to Shoreham Railway Line, which was closed in 1960’s and is now an important long distant walking and cycle route through Surrey and West Sussex.

The Downs Link took us north west, through Rudgwick, crossing under Lynwick Street then, on our right-hand side, the old brickworks, now with, the very nice, Milk Churn tea-room, on the site.  Soon the entrance to the Rudgwick tunnel, can be seen to our right. This is now an important Bat Roost. Walking over the tunnel we take the footpath right and follow the right-hand sides of the next two fields, then through a small patch of woodland, to reach Church Street again.

Turning right onto the pavement we soon reach the ‘Kings Head’.   Here the landlord, working under pressure, soon produced our eight pre-ordered meals, which were washed down from a good selection of locally brewed beers: A fine conclusion to a very pleasant walk.