I love it when you get that shimmering blue haze over the high weald in the distance from the ND.
My fave spot for that is up on Mariner's hill between Crockham Hill and Chartwell. A bit further along the ND from you, but on a clear day there's a good view back West towards the Surrey hills.I love it when you get that shimmering blue haze over the high weald in the distance from the ND.
You've just got me checking out the bridleways between me and Mariner's Hill! It seems reasonable except for getting round Oxted. Don't they have any horsey folk there?!My fave spot for that is up on Mariner's hill between Crockham Hill and Chartwell. A bit further along the ND from you, but on a clear day there's a good view back West towards the Surrey hills.
My fave spot for that is up on Mariner's hill between Crockham Hill and Chartwell. A bit further along the ND from you, but on a clear day there's a good view back West towards the Surrey hills.
Another reason for me struggling to find a bike route around Oxted to Mariner's Hill is that I had a car written off by a quarry lorry on Chalk Pit Hill and I've always been reluctant to travel on it since. The memory of 30 odd tonnes of lorry, unable to stop, pushing me down the hill and into a bank is difficult to forget!Wrote my car off on a hairpin bend just by Crockham Hill :-(
Another reason for me struggling to find a bike route around Oxted to Mariner's Hill is that I had a car written off by a quarry lorry on Chalk Pit Hill and I've always been reluctant to travel on it since. The memory of 30 odd tonnes of lorry, unable to stop, pushing me down the hill and into a bank is difficult to forget!
crosses off another route down off the ridgeI can well imagine that, quite a tricky road that one. My mate once drove a Luton van down White Lane, the other side of Titsey Hill for a laugh, it wasn’t that appreciated by the person he was helping to move house who was in the van at the time.
A damp rag would sort that out .
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Under the Thames. Driest place today.
Same. I've unimpressed so many over the years. They just don't get it. No imaginationI love this place soooo much, possibly my favourite place in the world, really can't explain why, my kids are singularly unimpressed when I take them down there.
Disappointing mud , it is way less muddy on the local marshes atm, they have become less marsh-y. They always dry out in the Spring /early Summer.I went to see how the mud was doing in the big meadow behind the house
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