Start point:- TQ151548
Time taken:- 2 hours 57 minutes
Distance:- 14.10 km; 8.76 miles
Route:-
| Young St
CP (Top) - Bocketts Farm - Hawks Hill - Downside Manor - Leatherhead Downs -
Mickleham Downs - Mickleham Church - Mickleham Priory - Ice Coombe - Sawmill
- Crabtree Cottages - Bookham Wood - Admirals Road (Track) - The Hazels - CP A variation on a walk completed on 22nd February 2016, passing Mickleham Priory and taking the path up to the Sawmill at the Ice Coombe. The path passes under the railway, and runs parallel to the road to Norbury House. The trees on this route are moss covered and there is a good autumnal display. You've a number of options to vary the route bu turning off to the right at the first path after passing under the railway. Jane Austen apparently was a Surrey girl, one unpublished novel "The Watsons" was set in Surrey. In the book "Emma" she describes the "ideal english view" From the Ordnance Survey map, we know the exact spot the author stood when describing this view. There is only one ‘bank of considerable abruptness and grandeur well clothed with wood’ in this area, and it lies directly behind Mickleham Priory, the original of Abbey-Mill Farm, with its meadows in front and the broad curve of the River Mole behind it. http://www.surreyhills.org/jane-austen-was-a-surrey-girl/ This walk will not provide the views of Leatherhead seen from the S curves in the road leading to Norbury Park House, but will take you past the Priory as well as a working farm. the cottage at the Ice Coombe must be a cold house simply because of its location within shadow mostly. If you do not go under the railway there is a path to the right which will lead to Young St car park at the bottom running parallel to the River Mole. In winter this path can be very muddy |
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