Surrey Walks: Chobham Common South
Stormy day on Chobham Common
Start & Finish: Staple Hill Car Park, Chobham, Chertsey, KT16 0ED
Distance: 7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 65m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): N/A
Other routes touched (cycle): N/A
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Red Lion (5km in)
Map: Windsor, Weybridge & Bracknell Map | Thames Path | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 160
Links: Chobham, Longcross, Chobham Common
This is part of a series of short circular walks in Surrey. The guidance below will help you navigate but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide. Always take a map and/or a GPX route and prepare well for the weather and terrain.
Chobham Common is a 656-hectare (1,620-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) north of Chobham in Surrey, England. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I and a national nature reserve. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area and the Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham Special Area of Conservation. It contains three scheduled monuments. Most of the site is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust as the Chobham Common nature reserve, but the SSSI also includes a small private reserve.
For this walk we parked at Staple Hill Car Park next to the M3. It’s a convenient place to park but noisy as it’s next to the busy motorway that cuts through the once very quiet common. The motorway has now created a northern and a southern part of the common.
From the car park we crossed over Staple Hill Road and followed the boundary path in a clockwise direction past Burrow Hill to Killy Hill. At Killy Hil take the small path out of the Common onto Red Lion Road for a stop at the Red Lion Pub. After the pub follow Red Lion Road to the west then take a right onto the Windsor Road, heading north. Shortly after the entrance to Heather Way take a footpath on the right back into the common and follow paths in a northerly direction until you hit the boundary path before the M3. Continue along the boundary path until you return to Staple Hill Car Park.
