🥾 Walk 602 - Chobham Common

After several days of rain, we were lucky to have a warm and sunny day for this 7 mile walk, with a wonderful blue sky. On Saturday 23rd September, eleven of us met up at the Staple Hill car park on the edge of Chobham Common.

We crossed the road and started on a footpath that led to the left and followed alongside the road until we reached Long Cross car park. We headed right deeper into the common on narrower paths, flanked with gorse bushes and brambles, walkers had been advised to wear robust trousers today and everyone obliged! They were thankful later in the walk.

I had discovered during my pre walk that some of the paths on this part of the common were very overgrown, so we veered right further to the right to join a wider path (which unfortunately did not have the views) heading alongside Butts Hill to the road.

We took the first footpath to the left and looped around several farms joining the road again. Just before reaching the road, we stopped for an early lunch by Little Manor Farm and sat on a patch of grass with several trees. It was a really nice place for lunch, we enjoyed the peace and the dappled sunshine from the trees.

At the road we headed towards Langshot Stud, where we crossed a small paddock on our left to the stile in the right corner. We headed left through the woods and back into the common, where everyone was glad to be wearing their long trousers as it was very overgrown and prickly from the gorse.

We turned left at the main junction along a wide path with Clearmount on our right. We took a right path heading towards Chickabiddy Hill, before reaching the hill we veered left, over the road and along the footpath at Walk End.

We crossed the bridge over the M3 and took one of several paths along the edge of Brick Hill, no pub stop today as the Bricklayers Arms was temporarily closed. We took a very small, wild, overgrown and barely visible path (the secateurs came out for the second time) to the subway under the M3 and headed left back to the car park.

See our route on Google Maps.

Thank you to Ann for leading this walk and writing it up. Rob took the photos.

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