Event Details

Date:	26th April 1998, Start Time 2:15pm
Location:	The Stepping Stones, West Humble, Surrey
Organisers:	Roger Heath
Walk Distance:	3 miles (5 Km)

Directions 

Nat Grid Ref: TQ170518

The Stepping Stones is just off the A24 between Leatherhead and Dorking.
From the A24, about 1 mile north of the roundabout with the A25 and just south of the roundabout by the Burford Bridge Hotel (underneath Box Hill), take West Humble Street going west. The Stepping Stones is about 100 yards on the left.

 Route & Question Sheet

NOTE: No house names have been used as clues on this walk

STARTERS 
All answers are visible from the front of the pub

1.	A final inaccuracy catches the eye Only one and a half are dry?
2.	4X IN GH TW OO
3.	As the joking waiter let it slip "Pieces of Eight!" he was heard to quip!

STAGE I 
Leaving pub turn right along pavement Very soon cross road to cycle signs and pavement opposite. Continue under main road via subway. Immediately on emerging skirt round three pointer post in front, climbing three bar barrier in fence behind. Follow grassy path across field, veering gently to the right When barbed wire fence merges from the right stay on path past large building. Continue until reaching wooden swing gate in corner of field.

4.	Something used by wallies and yuppies?
5.	What he's holding up isn't plain. But surely not that waiter again!

STAGE II 
(No answers on underlined section)
Through (or round) gate, immediately turning right up earthy track. Stay on main track to car park. Through car park to "Polluted Water" notice beside dual carriageway. Cross over carefully, then turn left to two pointer post. Right along "North Downs Way". After walking under railway bridge continue past nearby house on left. End stage after a few yards at gatepost with acorn sign on it.

6.	Magnificent old revolvers
7.	Up there such a solitary thing Clearly the phone will no longer ring
8.	Celestial cause Of this applause?

STAGE III 
Ahead along track in front. Eventually, on reaching four pointer post, keep straight on up stony track. After some way pass beneath pylon lines to nearby post on right with cycle disc.

9.	Comes from Burnt Oak?
10.	Exactly how the insides are Of the sufferer from catarrh

STAGE IV
Ahead for a few yards then right along "Public Footpath". Eventually at "Ashcombe" bear right, ignoring driveway Soon follow track round right bend, now walking downhill on tarmac surface. Continue to "Public Footpath" sign on right.

11.	Its roots are found In the Underground!
12.	From different directions it's plain to the eye That 120 years go flashing by
13.	Its maker didn't quail At depicting it a male
14.	Alien quintuplets

STAGE V 
Continue on road past ruin to I junction. Left here, walking on grass verge on right. Soon turn right, following "Public Footpath" uphill. Proceed to squeeze barrier at top corner of field.

15.	Now only such as milk will go In place of Le Grand Vin De Bordeaux
16.	Of osmosis it has no need Amazingly equipped with a double feed
17.	Fully prepared and eager to go? When it's said it sounds just so

STAGE VI 
Through barrier and follow path uphill to stile. Over stile, continuing uphill through field on faint grassy path. Soon over second stile and go right along narrow road Pass car park on left and continue downhill to "Car Park 250 yards" sign on left.

18.	High church
19.	HHHHHHHH

STAGE VII 
Continue downhill on road until reaching a T junction a long way ahead. Cross over to "Chapel Lane" sign opposite.

20.	Close together in ornate art But usually kept 22 yards apart
21.	PC's order is crystal clear: "Foot down! Get us out of here!"

STAGE VIII
Left. Cross above railway. Pass station yard. When painted wall of house on left ends cross to pavement on left and continue ahead. When this pavement ends at gate re-cross to right side and proceed back to pub.

22.	Dropping it (as the cockney showed) Makes us trip up in the road
23.	If a Grand Prix should kill Then an undertaker will!
24.	As a sleuth it's clear this man Has a really worldwide span
25.	The invective of Luther King and his kind Is being repeatedly called to mind

 Answers 

1) "Sun 12.OOam - 10.3Opm" - on "Opening Hours" notice.
2) "Stepping Stones" - on overhanging sign.
3) Octagonal plate - overhanging at right end of pub.
4) "S-u-b-w-a-y" (first letters of each clue word) - beside dual carriageway.
5) Statue of man holding something above his head - in grounds of house.
6) Seven revolving bolts - on rusty iron post.
7) Telephone bracket without wires - affixed to top of red brick wall.
8) Hand surrounded by five stars - on "Denbies" notice on gate.
9) Black acorn - on "North Downs Way" pointer.
10) Green tubes - around saplings to right of track.
11) "Tree Tube" - on tube protecting sapling.
12) "1861" ("1981") - in concrete on brick pillar.
13) Black dog with clearly defined male genitals - on "Ashleigh Grange" sign.
14) "ET" five times - on rusty iron girder on left.
15) Wooden box casing with "Vintage 1970" and "Delaforce Sons & Co"- on left just past ruin.
16) Tree with two lengths of hosepipe projecting from trunk - in field.
17) Red "D" - on telegraph pole.
18) Spire of church on hillside - visible in distance.
19) "2M" (H-eight) - on height bar at car park.
20) Two wicket shapes - in wrought iron gate on right.
21) "Camilla Drive" - road name just before end of Stage 7.
22) "WE-ST-H-UMBLE STREET" - name of road.
23) "Box-Hill" - name of station.
24) "WES-TEC" with world map in background - on burglar alarm.
25) Black railings - beside house and garden on right.