Out of pub turn right. At Preston Cross, cross the road to your left at the island before the roundabout, continue a
little way along then cross again and continue walking along the left hand side of Rectory Lane. Just past Preston
Cross Hotel cross over to the right hand side of the road and go up the little public footpath. Cross the road and
continue along the footpath on the other side. Go past the church and on your right the actual public footpath is
almost immediately blocked by a fallen tree. Instead follow a path across the edge of the school playing field
parallel to the public path.
EOS 2 is where the playing field meets the road.
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| Q 4 | One short of a black suit. |
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| Q 5 | Teetotal chamber? |
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| Q 6 | Kent is so at Surrey it appears. |
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| Q 7 | We see you wholly ring fenced. |
Stage 3
At the road turn right and continue with the nursery on your left. At Manor House Lane cross the main road and walk up
Water Lane. Follow this as the surface gets increasingly less well made. The track bends round a field to the left
where there is a junction with a footpath on your right. Follow this footpath into the woods.
EOS 3 is at the first of the "V" stiles.
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| Q 8 | Voluminous laughter. |
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| Q 9 | Archimedes influence. |
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| Q 10 | On your marks sportsman to share this. |
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| Q 11 | Increase the tension without fuss, ratchet up and try stop us. |
Stage 4
Step through the stile and continue straight ahead with the hedgerow on your left. Through a green gate and step
through the next stile and follow the path across a small bridge. At the road turn left. At the junction on the bend
turn left again. After a while a footpath crosses the road. Take the right hand path.
EOS 4 is as the footpath emerges out onto the next road.
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| Q 12 | Between the black and the white, secured here without a fight. |
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| Q 13 | Bank robbery? No, just a hold-up! |
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| Q 14 | For those with three feet but how many hands? |
Stage 5
Follow the path on the left hand side of the road. At the bend in the road cross over and continue straight ahead
along Maddox Lane.
EOS 5 is at the junction on the corner by the hotel
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| Q 15 | Any Nectar points given? |
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| Q 16 | Reflect over progress made along uneven route. |
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| Q 17 | Confused little fox made landing on road. |
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| Q 18 | Never sweet 17 but evergreen. |
Stage 6
Turn left where it says 'No Through Road' and follow this road round to the right past the allotments. Over cattle
grid and at junction of footpaths bear right along Public Bridleway towards Great Bookham. Over the bridge and at
next, three way, junction bear right. Past Manor Cottage on your left and at the junction turn right over the bridge.
EOS 6 is at the cattle grid before the car park.
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| Q 19 | Mother feed her little brood, fly the nest they never would. |
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| Q 20 | This leading light is not a Tory voter. |
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| Q 21 | Obstacle to the literate herd. |
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| Spare A | Span the gap and get a little crosser then get over it. |
Stage 7
Follow the path straight ahead through the car park. At the road carry straight on over the railway bridge. At the
road junction cross over to the pavement on the left hand side and continue along Little Bookham Street. At the shop
cross over to the right hand side and continue to the pub.
EOS 7 and EOW is the edge of the pub grounds.
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| Q 22 | Footnote direction for different riders. |
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| Q 23 | NCO gives directions. |
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| Q 24 | Different but with the same outlook. |
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| Q 25 | We could not offset carbon footprint on time. |
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