Introduction
On New Year's Day 2007, Mum and I walked a route we've taken several times before, a circular walk from the village of Westhumble near Box Hill.
The walk
The walk took us uphill (past the Druids' Grove which we have still never actually been to, because it's quite a way off the route), through woods, metalled tracks in which we had to wade through deep puddles, and parkland to eventually reach the National Trust property of Polesden Lacey.
After that we continued past more parkland until we reached an old road, now just a tree-lined track almost covered by the canopy.
The route then took us down through Forestry Commission woods on a very muddy track, emerging to run along the mid-height of a ridge; presumably part of the North Downs, since the North Downs way runs higher up.
Climbing through woods, we crossed a main road and, walking along a smaller one, reached an impressive church. (It was built by some flash architect, but I forget who.)
The rest of the walk then goes around a huge vineyard and eventually heads back to the station (slightly more eventually if you go the wrong way at one point, which we did).
