North Downs & the M25: We had our elder son staying with us over the Christmas break and by the twenty ninth the trains in our space had been virtually working usually and we determined to have a stroll on the North Downs.
I didn’t write rather a lot about it on-line, although among the footage have captions, however right here is the entire textual content from My London Diary apart from these.
A few days later we took a stroll on the North Downs at Woldingham. It was fairly sufficient, however for a lot of the stroll we may hear and see the M25.
Although we had been strolling alongside moderately much less busy roads – the signal right here says ‘Public Bridleway. No 4 Wheel Vehicular Entry.’
Wikipedia begins its entry on the village with “Woldingham is a village and civil parish excessive on the North Downs between Oxted and Warlingham in Surrey, England, inside the M25, 17.5 miles (28.2 km) southeast of London.”
Which isn’t quite a lot of assist to these of us who’ve solely the vaguest concept of the place Oxted and Warlingham are, however this is part of what I consider as “deepest Surrey“, just a few miles out previous Croydon. We dwell in a really completely different a part of the county with few giant homes and just about freed from horses and on the opposite facet of the Thames which doesn’t actually belong within the county – and till the Sixties was Middlesex, the county which as soon as included London and our city continues to be part of it.
This 12 months right now engineering work on the railway means there could be no option to get to Woldingham by practice, however again in 2007 – and at regular occasions of the 12 months now – it’s a comparatively brief journey, with a change at Clapham Junction we might be there in round an hour and 1 / 4. So even with the brief December days there would nonetheless be loads of time to stroll round ten or twelve miles earlier than it will get darkish and be dwelling in meal time.
I can’t keep in mind the route we took, however this was a round stroll from Woldingham station Each the primary and final footage I made that day had been at Church Farm, only a quarter of a mile south from the station. It’s most likely not a stroll I might suggest until for some cause this part of the M25 was closed, as virtually all over the place you possibly can hear the noise of the visitors alongside it.
It’s most likely not a stroll I might suggest until for some cause this part of the M25 was closed, as virtually all over the place you possibly can hear the noise of the visitors alongside it. There gave the impression to be some lengthy visitors jams, with automobiles shifting hardly any sooner than us.
The ultimate image I made on the stroll. Extra on My London Diary at North Downs & M25.
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