Start point:- TQ079583
Distance:- 8.51km; 5.21 miles
Time taken:- 2 hours 40 minutes
Route:-
| Ockham Common Pond CP - Chatley Semaphore Tower - Hatchford Wood - May's Green - Stumpsgrove Cottages - School Farm - Hyde Lane (track) - Wisley Airfield - Elm Lane - Bolder Mere - CP |
Chatley Semaphore tower is the last surviving of the line of these towers stretching from Portsmouth to London. Restored by Surrey CC after a fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatley_Heath
The walk will take you past B Samuelson's mausoleum (Grid ref:TQ081543) which is quite hidden in the trees
http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/157/Samuelson_Mausoleum
The walk crosses Wisley airfield which was a former WW2 grass airfield, with tarmac laid in 1952 and from the airfield planes built by Vickers were tested. The airfield is now closed but there are plans to build up to 2250 houses on the site. And this proposal has raised local objections.
The walk finally passes Bolder Mere where a huge carp was removed when the lake was cleaned up.
This was led by a member of Mole Valley ramblers with a group of 29 walkers.
There is also a walk which covers the Semaphore tower, mausoleum, and Wisley airfield available from Fancy Freewalks website
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