In and Around Ockley Village
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"Discover a windmill and a beautiful lake while walking around this pretty village"
Walk directions
With your back to The Inn on the Green pub, walk across the green towards the pump and cottages, and turn left towards the pond. Turn right, following the public bridleway sign, to bear left and take the path diagonally across a field, heading towards a corner of woodland jutting into the field. Turn left into the trees; after a few paces go through a gate and over a bridge into woodland. Continue straight on along the edge of the woods, to eventually cross another bridge and pass by the side of Copse Cottage to Mole Street.
Turn left, pass another house and go left through a gate onto a public footpath that winds diagonally across a field towards a gap in the hedge, to the left of a large oak. Pass through and head towards a barn, then bear left and right, with the barn and farmhouse on your right. At the far end of the field, go through a gate and down the slope and over a stream towards a fingerpost. Turn right and follow the path around the right-hand edge of the field and towards an old barn. Reach a gravel track that leads through a metal gate and into Elmers Road. Proceed ahead to the main road (Stane Street, A29).
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Additional information
Terrain
- Across fields and through woodlands, can be muddy in places, 4 stiles
Landscape
- Ockley is a charming village surrounded by fields and woods and close to the Vann Lake Nature Reserve
Dog friendliness
- On lead through farmland around livestock
Parking
- Short-stay parking opposite The Inn on the Green, Stane Street
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
This walk around the pretty village of Ockley has a couple of surprises that add to its interest. Firstly, however, the village itself is worth exploring. The dead straight road that forms its setting is the inheritor of the Roman Stane Street, a road which originally ran in a direct line from...
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About the area
Surrey is one of England’s most wooded counties, with over a quarter of the landscape designated as an official AONB and plenty of history evident in the countryside. You’ll find sandy tracks, cottage gardens and welcoming village inns, and on the fringe of Greater London you can picnic in Chaldon’s hay meadows, explore the downs at Epsom, or drift idly beside the River Thames.
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