Gomshall and Netley Park
Walk to the entrance on Staple Lane and turn right. At the junction turn left and almost immediately right by the fingerpost down a public bridleway. It soon joins another track from the left. Keep ahead, ignoring the path from the right to meet the entrance to Hollister Farm and Hollister Cottage on the right.
Turn left, along the North Downs Way. Pass stables, go round a gate and an acorn waymarker indicating the North Downs Way. Keep along this track, passing a waymarker. At the next cross-tracks, by the sign for Netley Plantation keep ahead along the North Downs Way and in 580yds (530m) turn right by a waymarker along a public bridleway.
The path winds and descends, passing an old pillbox on the right. At the next waymarker turn right and in 20yds (18m) turn left by another waymarker along a footpath going downhill. Soon a track joins from the right by a waymarker; turn left here along a footpath for 546 yards (500m), which descends between fields to the Shere Road (A25).
Turn left past a garage and then left along Colekitchen Lane. (To visit Gomshall keep ahead here.) The walk now climbs steeply along a tarmac road to the entrance to Colekitchen Farm and, when you reach it, the route of the public bridleway is signed to the right of the farm buildings. Once past the farm the route enters woodland and continues uphill to a cross-tracks.
This is the North Downs Way and you turn left along the path, also signed as an easy access route with a blue arrow. Continue for 600yds (549m), then bear right down a gravel track. As it curves to the left a muddy path joins from the right. Within a few paces a bridleway on the left is indicated by a waymarker but you continue on the main track, ignoring a right turn. At the next cross-tracks turn left by a fingerpost indicating a bridleway and an access route with a blue arrow. Pass a barrier and at a junction with a track on the right, go right then immediately left following the bridleway shown on the waymarker along a narrow, muddy track through woods. In 50yds (46m) pass a waymarker showing the white acorn of the North Downs Way and the path veers left. At a T-junction with a cross-track with a waymarker, turn right with the North Downs Way. Pass a gate past stables (now retracing the outward journey). At the fingerpost turn right. At the next fork, where the outward path came from the left, now take the right fork that leads to Combe Lane. Turn right and where the road bears right, turn left at the fingerpost for the North Downs Way. This leads to Staple Lane. Cross to return to the car park.
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