Milford to Godalming Walk

1. [1] Coming out of Milford Railway Station, cross the railway footbridge and exit platform 1 on the station building side by a white gate.
2. Cross over the main road to take the footpath opposite, between fences; this narrow path runs parallel to the railway lines on its left-hand side, your direction 200°.
3. In 425 metres the path bends right away from the railway lines and in a further 200 metres you begin to see lakes to the left-hand side. Then in 100 metres your path joins a farm track to continue straight on.
4. In 300 metres cross a road (The Quest and Lakes Cottage are to your left) and continue ahead on a footpath, your direction 210°.
5. In 140 metres you come out on a road T-junction and you turn left, your direction 110°.
6. In 210 metres bear right with the road, a stream (visible in winter) now on your left-hand side.
7. In 150 metres you pass the very lovely Enton Mill on your left-hand side, to go under a railway bridge and continue on the road, gently uphill.
8. 300 metres beyond the bridge, you come to a T-junction, by a barn supported on wooden pillars on your right-hand side [2]. Turn right, your direction 170° onto a gravel track, gently uphill. In 140 metres, at a T-junction, cross it to go straight on, your direction 120°, on a signposted footpath into light woodland, initially uphill.
9. In 130 metres exit the wood by a stile and bear half right your direction 130°.
10. In 90 metres you pass a metal barrier (a kissing gate minus tongue), then go through a metal swing gate and bear half left over and down a large field, your direction 125°. In 200 metres go through a wooden kissing gate and cross a car lane, to continue into another field, heading towards a lake (visible in winter). Keep the mini-pylons on your right, your direction due south.
11. In 325 metres you enter the fringes of a wood, passing to the left of a metal swing gate.
12. In 40 metres, by a pylon, fork left, following a yellow footpath arrow on a post, your direction 160°.
13. In 100 metres you come to a post with arrows and turn left [3], your direction 100°, initially following overhead mini-pylons.
14. In 65 metres, at a path junction, keep straight on (slightly left), your direction 110° on a sandy path. Ignore tracks to the right and in 100 metres, you come to a T-junction and a potentially muddy zone by a post with multiple arrows, at the edge of the wood. You go left, your direction 70°.
15. In 65 metres you veer right with this wide bridleway, out of the wood, your direction now due east, following mini-pylons.
16. In 600 metres you come out to a car road T-junction with the Merry Harriers pub to your right, a possibl early lunch stop.
17. Turn right on the road, your direction 165°. In 25 metres turn left on to the signposted public footpath opposite the pub, through a metal kissing gate, your direction 75° into a strip of wood.
18. In 60 metres go through a wooden kissing gate and keep ahead, uphill. In 85 metres bend right with this path, uphill and now in a cutting, and in a further 100 metres the path becomes a driveway for houses. In 65 metres you come out on a tarmac road and turn left, uphill, your direction 110°. In 50 metres you come to St Peter's Church, Hambledon, well worth a look inside. In the churchyard wall there is a well preserved ancient lime kiln "in use until the 19th century".
19. Just past the church, but still alongside its churchyard wall [4], fork right on a signposted public bridleway (an earth car road), your direction 125° – and a small parking area on your left-hand side. You are now on the Greensand Way (so marked on the OS map).
20. Keep on this earth road and, in 450 metres, it becomes a narrower path. In a further 370 metres, you come to a T-junction with a three-armed bridleway sign where you turn right, on a sandy road, your direction 170°.
21. [!] In 20 metres turn left up an easy-to-miss public bridleway, your direction 150°, to go along the north fringe of a wood. In 170 metres, at a post on your left with blue arrows, fork right, down into the wood, your direction 140°, and ignoring ways off to remain on the Greensand Way.
22. In 125 metres, at the bottom of the slope, keep on, following a GW and bridleway sign (with a parallel car road on your right). In a further 75 metres, ignore a lesser car-wide way straight on, to fork left with your way uphill, your direction 100°.
23. Then in 130 metres, ignore a faint fork off down to the right, steeply downhill and towards a house. Keep on the main path, now along the south edge of the wood.
24. In 85 metres you pass under a mini-pylon. In 650 metres, having enjoyed fine views off to the right, ignore a signposted footpath off to the right.
25. In 160 metres, at a tarmac road, go left, uphill, your direction 295°. In 85 metres turn right on a bridleway, signposted Greensand Way, your direction 45°, uphill, into The Hurtwood (as marked on the OS map). Please note this path has been blocked for some time (October 2022) but an alternative route has been formed to its left - take this path.
26. Keep ahead uphill, in a narrow cutting. In due course you rejoin the original path (to the right of the new path), now in a deeper cutting.
27. In 200 metres, at the top of the incline, you come to a triangular grassy clearing with main tracks off to the left and ahead. Take the track ahead, slightly left , your direction 65°. In 200 metres cross over a car-wide earth track and in a further 100 metres, by a post with blue arrows, cross a car-wide earth road to keep straight on along the Greensand Way. In another 100 metres cross over another car wide earth track and keep ahead. [5]. In 150 metres ignore a fork to the right as you enter what was a wood - now cleared.
28. [!] In 180 metres, in the open, just before the track starts to descend, you come to a post with arrows, where the original TO Book had you turning right. However, the new route, is to keep ahead at this post to go down a better, wide path with a good, even gravel base, soon passing through two posts with red reflectors, your direction 55°.
29. Keep on down this path, passing between posts with red reflectors where the path drops down single steps.
30. In 250 metres, at the bottom of the slope, the path narrows and swings to the right. At a T-junction , by a post on your right, turn right and in 20 metres bear left on a narrow path with a fence on your left, your direction 100°
31. In 150 metres turn left between gate posts onto a sandy track.
32. In 125 metres the track comes out onto the B2130 road. Cross the road to come to the White Horse pub, Hascombe, the suggested lunchtime stop.
33. Coming out of the pub after lunch, fork sharp right into Church Road, your direction 25°, in 75 metres coming to the entrance to the delightful St Peter's Church, Hascombe (it is open to visitors and well worth a visit).
34. Continue on the road past the village pond on your right-hand side, and bear left with the road as it passes the School House on your right. Then in a further 200 metres, by a cottage [6], where one bridleway is straight on, you turn left on another bridleway, your direction 290°, with the course of a stream down below you on your left-hand side.
35. In 75 metres fork right off the bridleway (where previously there had been a stile with a metal fieldgate on its right) into a field, your direction 305°, on a grassy path, cutting across the corner of the field. In 180 metres go through a metal kissing gate to rejoin the bridleway you had been on before. Turn right along it, your direction 345°.
36. In 80 metres your path merges with an earth road by a multiple armed sign and you carry straight on through a metal field gate marked 'Forge Cottage The Stables', ignoring a bridleway off to the left. In 45 metres you pass Forge Cottage on your left-hand side. In a further 175 metres, at a T-junction with a three-armed bridleway sign on your right, fork left on a path down between fences, your direction 285°.
37. In 120 metres, having negotiated this potentially muddy path, go through a metal fieldgate to cross the B2130 and continue straight on up a public bridleway (a gravel driveway signed to Elm and Leybourne Cottages), your direction 255°.
38. In 55 metres you pass Elm Cottage on your left and in a further 50 metres Leybourne Cottage, to continue steeply up the bridleway, initially in a woodland cutting.
39. In 160 metres ignore an opening and way off to the left. In 145 metres, at the brow of the hill, you pass High Winkworth House on the left-hand side. By a sign for the entrances to Sullingstead and Winkworth Hanger, turn left on the tarmac lane, your direction 260°.
40. In 210 metres, at a road T-junction, turn right, your direction due north.
41. In 400 metres you come to the B2130 where you turn right on to the road, your direction due east (be careful as there is no pavement).
42. [!] In 140 metres [7] turn left on to a signposted public footpath, just inside Eden House's driveway and forking left off it, your direction 345°.
43. In 45 metres you pass a part-timber framed house on your left-hand side, with Winkworth Arboretum soon visible beyond the fencing on your right-hand side.
44. In 500 metres or so, you come to an earth road, with a car park on your left-hand side, and you turn right into Winkworth Arboretum , following a public footpath sign, through a wooden swing gate to the right of a wooden fieldgate, your direction 55°, along a car-wide earth road. In 10 metres you pass Fox cottage on your right-hand side. In 60 metres, you pass the National Trust's ticket kiosk on your left (entrance to the Arboretum for those leaving the public footpath costs £12 but free to NT Members). The Arboretum's Cafe , a possible late lunch stop or early tea stop, is on your left-hand side.
45. In 30 metres cross over a main path junction, with public WCs over to your left, and keep ahead. In a further 120 metres, at a crossroads, you follow the yellow public footpath arrows going straight on down towards the Azalea Steps and lakes.
46. In 75 metres, as the path swings to the right, turn left with the yellow arrow, by a wooden sign saying Fiona Adam Steps. At the bottom of the main flight of earthen steps, keep ahead by a bench seat and keep on down, now on a rough path. In 60 metres, at the bottom of the slope, turn right onto a main path, your direction 110°.
47. In 130 metres, at a T-junction, follow the yellow arrow to the right, your direction 200°.
48. In 35 metres, where steps go up to the right, turn left, with a log cabin then on your right-hand side, your direction due east. You pass a lake on your right-hand side.
49. Out of the wood you come to a T-junction by a National Trust donation pyramid on your right and you turn left on a sandy track, your direction 100°.
50. In 90 metres, with the Arboretum's former disabled car park ahead of you (disused) turn right by a yellow arrow on a post, up a gentle incline to a road which you reach in 40 metres. Here go left, your direction 345°. Shortly after you pass the disabled car park on your left, you have the option of taking the permissive path on your left, which runs parallel to the road. In winter this can be muddy. The path rejoins the road some 50 metres before you turn left up the path to Phillimore Cottage.
51. If you have stayed on the road, in 300 metres, at a right-hand bend in the road, by a public footpath sign and a sign for Phillimore Cottage, turn left uphill on a tarmac lane, your direction 340° [8].
52. Head up this lane, passing a cottage on your right. The lane becomes a path as you enter a woodland strip. Some 100 metres from the main road junction turn right through a wooden kissing gate, marked with a yellow arrow, then turn left, your direction 300°, with the field edge on your left-hand side. In 200 metres you go over a stile to enter a wood, to go straight on, in 35 metres crossing a path, your direction 310°.
53. In 205 metres cross another path and in a further 350 metres, having ignored all ways off, you come out through a metal kissing gate on to a tarmac road, where you turn left , your direction due west.
54. In 100 metres turn right off the road on to a track, by a public bridleway sign, your direction 330°, ignoring a gate into a field on your right [9].
55. In 250 metres, at the end of a tall wooden fence on your left-hand side, cross a bridleway by a four-armed bridleway and footpath sign, to continue straight on between fences.
56. In 265 metres cross a tarmac road to continue straight on, along a signposted bridleway [10].
57. In 1km you pass the gates to Catteshall Farm on your left hand side, and keep ahead now on a tarmac lane. In a further 250 metres, you pass the entrance to Catteshall Manor on your left-hand side and bend right with the road. Then in 80 metres you come to a T-junction, with the timber-framed Old Cider House on your right-hand side, where you turn left, your direction 245°.
58. In 65 metres you turn right into Catteshall Road, your direction 335°. Then in 80 metres you cross Warramill Road to continue ahead.
59. In 50 metres, by Brock's Close, you fork left on to the main road to cross the bridge, your direction 300°. Stay on the road and, 175 metres beyond the bridge, you come to another one with Farncombe Boat House on the right-hand side.
60. To visit Hector's On the Wey café, go down steps on the right on this side of the river; the café is at the far end of the boat house. Afterwards, return to the road and turn right.
61. Once over the river, cross the road and turn left, going through a small metal swing gate in 5 metres, to pass Catteshall Lock on your left-hand side, continuing on the National Trust's River Wey & Godalming Navigation path, your direction 220°.
62. In 900 metres you pass the partially converted Godalming United Church to come out on the A3100 where you turn left, your direction 210°, to cross the Town Bridge over the River Wey.
63. At the other side of the bridge turn sharp right down some steps to get on to the riverside path, meandering with the river on your right-hand side (and Godalming library on your left).
64. In 450 metres, beyond the bowling green and before the church, fork left away from the river path towards the back entrance of the churchyard of Godalming's Church of St Peter and St Paul. Go through the churchyard and exit it, in 80 metres, into Deanery Place, near the entrance to the church.
65. If you wish to visit a pub, or one of the town's coffee shops or cafes for tea, turn left and go up Church Street. In 130 metres you come to the High Street and turn left; The coffee shops and Cafe Mila are along or just off the High Street. Afterwards, head back along the High Street and (by the Old Town Hall) turn right into Church Street to return to the church.
66. Continue past the church entrance and across a road to pick up a signposted passageway leading to the station, still straight on.
67. Once at Godalming Railway Station you need to go over the pedestrian bridge for trains to London.

Hascombe Hill

1. Walk up Nore Lane, to the right of the lunch pub
2. After 100m, take a footpath to the right, by the side of a garage. It leads to a sunken lane, if muddy, there is a path along the left hand rim.
3. In 200m, veer left, 135° and continue 650m uphill towards the summit.
4. Option: veer right for a path, below the Iron Age Fort's ramparts, that circles the summit plateau.
5. Continue uphill, passing a sculpture of small boulders at a viewpoint.
6. Optionally, a path left leads for 1km along the summit plateau.
7. A little further, by a seat made from a tree trunk, a feint path right leads to the clearing of the Iron Age fort (the trig point is in the overgrown area to your left).
8. Just past it, you reach a viewpoint at the far side of the summit plateau
9. Retrace your steps to the pub.