Walk 5th May 2017 Rusper and the source of the River Mole

Start point:- TQ205374

Distance:- 9.27 km; 5.76 miles

Time taken:- 2 hours 44 minutes

Route:-

Rusper Parish Church CP - Millfields Farm - Rusper Court Farm - Baldhorns Park - Dial Post Farm - Nunnery Farm - Curtis's Farm - The Lodge - Baldhorns Park Farm - Baldhorns Copse - CP

This walk was led by a member of Mole Valley Ramblers with 25 walkers and this will be reflected in the time taken to complete the route.

The walk starts at Rusper Parish church and a parish existed from the 13th century http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt3/pp117-119
The walk after leaving the village of Rusper

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt3/pp109-112

crosses farmland and is fairly flat, it follows the River Mole almost to its source situated in Baldhorns Copse.

There is a Nunnery

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol2/pp63-64

near to Nunnery Farm.

Nearby we encountered this specimen of a Dorking Cockerel. Local farmers’ wives bred the large eating birds with their distinctive fifth toe.

https://www.dorkingmuseum.org.uk/the-dorking-cockerel/