Surrey Walking Club

The next club race is the SWC Open 5km & YAG events at Tonbridge School and the next club stroll is on Saturday 21st July with Kate Copeland as conductor

Welcome to the Surrey Walking Club. The Club was originally formed in 1899 as a race walking club. We are still involved in race walking but we now promote a range of walking related activities including ultra distance walking and we have our own successful long distance social walking section known as the Strollers.

25th Jul SWC Open 5km & YAG events at Tonbridge School at 7:00 PM. Click here for more details

Saturday 21^st July . Ashurst Circular. Conductor: Kate Copeland. Start Ashurst Station 09:57 (09:07 from London Bridge, East Croydon 09:21). Or take the 08:55 from London Victoria, (Clapham Junction 09:01) and change East Croydon. Return trains at 53 mins past the hour for the return journey to London Bridge of 57 mins. There is free parking at Ashurst Station.

Route Description: From Ashurst station we follow the Sussex Border Path and High Weald Landscape Trail to Withyam (7 miles), accompanied by the River Medway for some of this stretch. We keep on the High Weald Landscape Trail, via Five Hundred Acre wood, onto Ashdown Forest for a picnic lunch (10 miles). After lunch we start heading back North, via the Vanguard Way and Pooh Bridge, to Hartfield for our refreshment stop (14 miles). Here we have the choice of The Anchor Inn or Piglet's Tearooms. It is then a pleasant stroll via the Forest Way Country Park and Sussex Border Path back to Ashurst Station. A very rural walk with some stunning views.

Please bring a packed lunch. We will pass a pub at Withyam where we can fill up water bottles on a hot day. Our main refreshment stop will be in Hartfield. In case of bad weather we may choose to have an early pub lunch in Withyam.

Explorer 135. Distance approx.18 miles.

Click here to see the 2018 strolls programme including links to reports/photographs undertaken during the year and here to access the strolls data base and photo gallery. This includes stroll reports and photographs from 2008 to 2017.