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SHORT WALKS AND TEAS

MINOR EXCURSIONS WITHIN A FEW MILES OF RIDDLESDOWN

 

Do you ever wonder where to go for a walk around Riddlesdown - or where to find a cup of tea?

 

This page lists a few of the many places to try, all given with hope, but without any guarantee, of satisfaction.

 

We need your recommendations to keep this page going.

Please contact Nick Bygrave Tel: 020 8660 0787

with any local places that you would suggest be added (or removed).

 

WALKS

BANSTEAD WOODS.  Good beech woods and open spaces. Ramblers Rest pub nearby with teas and coffee available.

COULSDON COMMON. Wooded area. Fox pub nearby.

CROHAM HURST. Hilly wooded and open area.

FARTHINGDOWN/HAPPY VALLEY, COULSDON. Large open and wooded areas with walks.

HAYES COMMON. Hayes

KENLEY COMMON. Plenty of wooded and open areas. Sometimes the gliders are up from Kenley Aerodrome. Wattenden Arms nearby.

KINGS WOOD (Hamsey Green). Pleasant woods with grid of paths. Bluebells in April/May.

LIMPSFIELD CHART. Large wooded area. Other good areas nearby on escarpment.

LLOYD PARK. Right in the middle of Croydon, an extensive area of parkland.

RIDDLESDOWN.  It takes about one hour for a leisurely walk across Riddlesdown via the rear of Hamsey Green, then to Warlingham, for a drink at one of the pubs. Or walk past the quarry and down to Whyteleafe. Or walk over the Common, cross the A22 and climb up to Kenley Common and the Wattenden Arms for a drink. Or walk through Mitchley Woods and other wooded areas nearby.

SELSDON WOOD. Woods and open areas, bird sanctuary.

SPRING PARK WOODS. Addington Road, West Wickham.

TOYS HILL. Wooded National Trust area. Fox and Hounds nearby.

WOLDINGHAM. Many walks around, particularly in the area above the M25.

 

PLACES FOR TEA

BRASTED. Teashop on the South side of the High Street (A25)

CHARTWELL. Winston Churchill's house with National Trust restaurant

EMMETTS. National Trust Garden (good bluebells) with Restaurant

FANNY'S TEASHOP, Markedge Lane, Chipstead. Garden, plants, teas, groceries, Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs.

GODSTONE/BLETCHINGLEY. Garden Centre

KNOCKHOLT. Coolings Garden Centre

NUTFIELD. Priory Garden Centre

WARLINGHAM Knights Garden Centre

WESTERHAM. Teashops in the High Street and on the Green. Plenty of walks around.

WOLDINGHAM Knights Garden Centre