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2024-03-28T15:37:29+00:00text/html2024-03-26T21:49:45+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.262151 -0.412673TQ1052 : Turnpike milestone
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Milestone on the former Leatherhead to Stoke (Guildford) turnpike, four miles out of Leatherhead.text/html2024-03-26T21:37:20+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.227969 -0.472713TQ0648 : Footpath in Coombe Bottom
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This holloway has the feel of an ancient path up Coombe Bottom, with the field to the west carved out of the wooded valley long ago. A pill box lies nearby.text/html2024-03-26T21:25:11+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.229847 -0.465060TQ0748 : Postbox at Hollister Farm
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Hollister Farm is accessible only by means of bridleways (one of them the North Downs Way) leading off Coombe Lane (with rights for private vehicular use). Remarkably, in 2024, the farm — to which is adjacent two dwellings — still has a public postbox attached to the farm building, with daily collections.text/html2024-03-26T21:18:44+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.238055 -0.460060TQ0749 : Bridleway and hedgebank
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Bridleway Shere 89 from Francis Corner to Hookwood Farm. The bridleway appears to have the character of a path along an ancient hedge bank. The trees on the right are growing along a bank, and one of those in the foreground has a long horizontal section as if it had been laid in a hedge in its youth. But pre-War Ordnance Survey County Series plans show that the bridleway followed an uncertain line through woodland and heath, and appears to have been confined between fence and bank perhaps after WWII — although some of the trees presumably were growing in the woodland which has been cleared from what are now fields on either side.text/html2024-03-26T21:01:56+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.241543 -0.458654TQ0750 : Bridleway to Hookwood Manor
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Bridleway West Horsley 89 to Fullers Farm Road at Hookwood Manor. The bridleway here follows the parish boundary between West Horsley and Shere — the latter an immense parish stretching from Winterfold Forest to the North Downs.text/html2024-03-26T20:46:48+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.255911 -0.470785TQ0651 : Old Epsom Road
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The old Epsom Road, formerly the turnpike, along the south side of Hatchlands Park. The modest cutting on the right-hand side would have been excavated to ease the modest ascent for carriages and carts. The width probably extended to around 30 feet (9 metres).text/html2024-03-26T15:53:30+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.256920 -0.465449TQ0751 : End of the road
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This is as far as it is practicable to walk east along the course of the old turnpike road: the next 200m or so is overgrown and obstructed by trees and shrubs, before rejoining the present course of the Epsom Road at the lodge. The visitor is encouraged to turn left (north) into the park.text/html2024-03-20T14:06:53+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.509620 -0.126106TQ3080 : Institute of Chinese Medicine
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On the face of it, a grade-II-listed building, noted for its 'Unusually bold monumental neo classicism'. But also a public right of way leading to Brydges Place, an alleyway directly behind the building.text/html2024-03-03T19:10:55+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.294703 -0.432635TQ0956 : Ockham footpath 25 green lane
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Ockham footpath 25 forms a narrow corridor of green lane between Old Lane and Whitehill Lane — seen here at its eastern end.text/html2024-03-03T18:30:22+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.222469 -0.478480TQ0648 : Albury footpath 246
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Several parts of footpath 246 between Shere and Albury Street are incised into the landscape, where the footpath ascends and descends the gentle slopes. The footpath has been marked 'Probable course of Pilgrims Way' on old Ordnance Survey County Series plans, although the provenance of that annotation is uncertain, as is its accuracy. But the holloways along the path suggest that it has been in use since at least the mediæval period, so perhaps the claim is not so far-fetched (although pilgrims doubtless used countless other paths and roads too).text/html2024-03-03T18:22:29+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.224234 -0.482862TQ0648 : Pavement at Albury Street/Sherbourne
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Pavement on the east side of Sherbourne, also known as Albury Street, between the junction with Albury footpath 246 and the Shere Road. The pavement has been provided inside the field, with the old field-edge hedge between the pavement and the road, probably in the post-war period.text/html2024-03-03T17:39:24+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.244574 -0.505116TQ0450 : Footpath through beech plantation
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Footpath West Clandon 77 through beech plantation heading towards West Clandon crossroads.text/html2024-03-03T17:22:49+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.215199 -0.425170TQ1047 : Holloway on bridleway Abinger 10
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Deeply incised holloway on bridleway Abinger 10, ascending from Paddington Farm crossroads to Broomy Downs.text/html2024-01-28T20:53:13+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.208098 -0.479813TQ0646 : Footpath to Brook Lane
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A public footpath connects Albury Heath with Brook Lane at the railway bridge a little below the William IV pub. The sign explains that this part of Albury Heath (behind the photographer) was once part of an agri-environment scheme to offer public access, although the heath has long been subject to access under s.193 of the Law of Property Act 1925 thanks to a voluntary deed executed by the Duchess of Northumberland in 1932.text/html2024-01-28T20:44:30+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/20543Hugh Craddock51.207594 -0.482550TQ0646 : Holloway on Albury Heath
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This modest holloway is on no recorded public right of way, but the eroded cross-section suggests it probably pre-dates the construction of the Redhill to Guildford railway line, and must narrowly have escaped destruction when the line was built. But the greensand erodes quickly, and perhaps it began to form only once the line was built and this became the shortest route to cross the railway at Brook Crossing.