Walking The Greensand Way Part 19 - Tandridge and Oxted

Tandridge Golf Course

Start & Finish: Oxted Station, Oxted, RH8 9EU
Distance: 10.6 km (6.6 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 165m
Greensand Way section covered: Leigh Mill Fly Fishing Lane to Rockfield Road: 4.6 km
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): Over The Downs to Oxted Mill Walk, Greenwich Meridian Trail, Greensand Way Oxted Spur
Other routes touched (cycle): Prime Meridian Cycle Route
Pubs / Cafes on route: Several in Oxted and Old Oxted, plus The Barley Mow Tandridge (5.3km in) and The Haycutter (7.4 km in)
Map: Dorking, Box Hill & Reigate Map | Leatherhead & Caterham | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 146
Links: Oxted, Tandridge

This is the nineteenth of a series of short circular walks featuring the Greensand Way. The full trail is a long distance path stretching from Haslemere in Surrey to Ham Street in Kent. Our walks take in short sections of the Greensand Way and loop back to the start on other paths. The Greensand Way is well sign posted however you’ll need a map or GPX route to keep on track for the return sections of the loops. The guidance below will help but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide.

For this section we parked in the multistory car-park that serves both Oxted Railway Station and Morrisons supermarket. This is at the end of this section of the Greensand Way, so the first half of this route is a westerly return to where section 18 left the trail at the A22. From Oxted Station follow Station Road West then Church Lane in a south-westerly direction to the A25. Cross over the A25 and follow Old Oxted High Street then Godstone Road until the pavement rejoins the A25. Continue along the A25 to Tandridge Golf Club and take a left to follow the footpath through the gold course. Watch out for golf balls!

At the far end of the golf course take a left onto Tandridge Road then a right onto Jackass Lane. After ~300m take a left onto a footpath that will lead you through fields, then woods to the A22. Here you’ll cross back over the same section of A22 from section 18 before recrossing it slightly further south back on the Greensand Way. It’s a tricky, dangerous road crossing but realistically hard to avoid on this section. The alternative is to stay on Tandridge Road after the golf course and follow it to Tandridge although this misses 1 km of the Greensand Way. It depends on how much of a completer-finisher you are.

Once back on the Greensand Way after the A22 continue through to Tandridge where the Barley Mow pub is a good place to stop for a rest at this roughly half way point of the walk. Continue on the Greensand Way as it passes round the back of the pub and follow it to Rockfield Road south of Oxtend Town Centre. At this point you’ll take a left onto Rockfield Road (leaving the Greensand Way) then a left onto Old Lane walking parallel to the railway line to East Hill Road. Cross over East Hill Road and take the footpath through Johnsdale to Station Road East and back to Oxted Station.

Richard gowerTrek, Surrey Hills AONB, Surrey, EnglandComment