Directions

Nat Grid Ref: TQ 273575

Location
From Coulsdon: Take Chipstead Valley Road, heading west. Continue through Chipstead Valley and The Ramblers Rest is on right, approximately 2 miles from Coulsdon.
From Sutton area (A217): Take A217 south (beware speed cameras). Continue past Banstead then after Shell garage on right take Waterhouse Lane on left (signposted Kingswood Station). Continue past shops and station this becomes a country road. Approximately 2 miles from A217, pass Chipstead village sign. The Ramblers Rest is shortly on left.
From M25 J 8 (Reigate): Take A217 north. Beware speed cameras. After just over 2 miles and at the 3rd roundabout, take 4th exit (Bonsor Drive, signposted Kingswood, Chipstead, Coulsdon). After ½ mile turn right at T-junction (Kingswood station). After approximately 1½ miles, pass Chipstead village sign. The Ramblers Rest is shortly on left.

Public Transport
From Chipstead station walk down to main road (Outwood Lane) and turn left. The Ramblers Rest is a little over ½ mile on right. Trains hourly from East Croydon xx.09 and Purley xx.17. Return xx.57.Journey time from East Croydon 19 mins.

Map

Walk Information
The walk is 3.5 miles. Much of it is woodland with some short steep inclines and narrow footpaths, so not suitable for pushchairs. There is only one stile. The going will very much depend on the weather in the week before, so suggest you bring boots just in case.
The Ramblers Rest has ample parking space. There is a large garden and children are welcome. The food is mainly local and everything is cooked from fresh, so please order early if you are eating. The real ales include London Pride and Pilgrim Bitter. Fresh fruit juices are a speciality.

Route & Question Sheets

Starter Clues

1 Whisky dispensers perhaps?
2 Mild mannered man becomes galvanised. Super!
3 Canine repose

Stage 1

Through kissing gate and up track. Turn left at end of hedge and follow along new fence on your right. At top follow fence around right to the end and just ahead take narrow footpath on the left.
Straight along footpath which eventually gets wider. Follow to gate ahead then heft with fence on your right down hill to kissing gate where stage ends

4 Gather here initially for juice that rises in the tree
5 Here is a place where you can sit but you cannot get to it
6 Command to leave or helpful direction?

Stage 2

Turn left opposite kissing gate and follow path down hill to railway line.. Through the gates, across the tracks and through white gate on the other side and down hill to road. Cross the road then left to kissing gate on right where stage ends

7 Once you have crossed the line you'll be confused about the fine.
8 The answer is frightening
9 The name of this local dignitary makes him the same as you or me

Stage 3

Through kissing gate and straight ahead along right hand side of field up hill to kissing gate in top right hand corner. Through kissing gate and follow path around and up into woodland. Up slope to green arrow at "T" junction where stage ends.

10 Lively but dangerous place of learning
11 The way to freedom or the road to perdition?

Stage 4

Turn left along track through woods and keep going for some distance, to fork with post in middle where stage ends

12 In this place it does abound, some standing some upon the ground
13 From this point you can be led…..
14 ….from here do it yourself instead

Stage 5

Take left fork down path and keep going down to kissing gate. Through gate and ahead down to next kissing gate. Do not go through but follow field to the left hand side of the gate up hill to another kissing gate in top right hand corner where stage ends

15 Rustic religious ceremonies
16 Raw materials or paper fixers, these are now redundant

Stage 6

Do not go through gate. Turn left along fence then straight ahead across field.Through gate and follow path to the left. Keep going until you eventually reach a five bar gate across the path where stage ends.

17 Keep them fit before they're slaughtered, here they can be fed and watered
18 It may look like a happy tree, but this one's fixed it's plain to see.
19 Even stiff cocktails could not keep this one standing.

Stage 7

Through gate and straight ahead along top right hand side of field. At end turn right through kissing gate and diagonally across field to kissing gate on other side. Through kissing gate, cross road and up footpath opposite through wood. At fork take left hand path then on up through the woods to gate at far end. Through gate and along left hand side of field to stile where stage ends

20 The message may be unclear but you can still see the point
21 Its sometimes also called a course but this one's for an iron horse
22 The wood is restricted here

Stage 8

BEWARE: over stile and you are immediately on a narrow road used as a cut through. Turn left and proceed with great care down the road to a footpath on the left hand side. (There are no clues on this stretch of road). Turn left down footpath and follow straight down to road at bottom where the quiz walk ends. Cross the road and turn right back to the pub.

23 Confused? Get Scot for a chat to find the answer
24 One off the score but not in debt
25 Healthy Welshman

Young Walkers Questions

Starter

1. How far can you take your food in the garden ?

Stage 1

2 Where can you find the picture of a bird ?

Stage 2

3 What must you do before crossing the railway line ?

Stage 3

4 What is the name of the place undergoing landscape recovery ?

Stage 4

5 What colour is the pointer telling you where the trail is ?

Stage 5

6 What organisation looks after the environment here ?

Stage 6

7 Can you see a man made place a bird can build its house ?

Stage 7

8 Where was the gate at the top of the wood made?

Stage 8

9 What animals are not allowed here ?

Answers

1. Scotsman Beverage Systems
2. Clarksteel
3. (Ramblers) Dog Rest
4. Staff assembly point - sap
5. Old seat now blocked off by new fence
6. Outwood
7. Two signs Penalty for Trespass £1000 and £200
8. Response Alarms
9. DS Walker - Chief Executive and Town Clerk
10 School House Outwood Lane on sign over Electricity Danger of Death
11 Permissive Footpath
12 Wood
13 Guided Trail
14 Self Guided Trail
15 Countryside Services
16 Staples - on post.
17 Water trough and feeder
18 Smile nailed to a tree
19 Broken down post with rusty nails (whisky and drambuie cocktail)
20 Rotted Public Footpath sign with point still intact
21 (Railway) track
22 (British gates &) Timber Ltd.
23 Ashcroft Cottage
24 19 in black on sign by railway track.
25 (Cases of) Taffswell.

Young Walker Answers

1. To the post with the dovecote on top

2. On the Banstead Countryside Walk sign

3. Stop, Look, Listen

4. Shabden Park

5. Green arrow

6. Surrey Wildlife Trust

7. Nesting Box

8. Biddenden , Kent

9. Horses