Betchworth or bust

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars …..or at least blue sky today !
Up the hill to St Catherine’s ancient chapel of rest and back on the path and now heading east ! Down to cross the Wey which has been canalised to here ! Across the bridge and onward and too soon climbing up to St Martha’s hill only 750ft but ….! A view of seven counties and featured in the 1944 film Canterbury tale ! His knows how they got up here ! It’s a good view ! Down and across the fields of wheat, past an impressive Albury park house before reaching Shere ! It’s a beautiful village and site of a Lutyens lynch gate , the site of Bridget Jones wedding ! And most impressive a 2 inch Madonna supposedly a lost pilgrims staff emblem ! Abinger Hammer named after a 1557 iron mill hammer but these days commemorated by a blacksmith 1900 statue! And then .. damn …it’s up the hill to the North downs way ! And a great view from a bench of Blatchford downs ! Gasp!
A curious but grateful track path passes many WW2 pill boxes ( why ? What were they defending up there?) and lots of yew trees !
It’s a nice flat ancient trackway that eventually emerges near Debbies vineyard !! It’s the biggest ! Downhill to the stepping stones of Boxhill and then around to Betchworth for the night ! Only 17 miles easy ….but those hills !!!Read more