WOLDINGHAM CIRCULAR VIA TITSEY PLACE HIKING AROUND LONDON
Woldingham Circular via Titsey Place walk
Rural valleys, the North Downs and the Titsey Plantation
The start of this fairly strenuous walk is the same as the Woldingham to Oxted walk (#2): along the rural valley of Marden Park past Woldingham School and then up the side of the valley into Marden Park Woods, where the maze of paths laid out by the Woodland Trust gives you the opportunity to take a slightly different route through them each time. By the time you join the North Downs Way (NDW) at South Hawke the traffic noise from the M25 will be all too apparent and you will have to endure this for a good part of the walk; the motorway is less than 200m away from the NDW on a 1 km stretch along the foot of the North Downs. The morning section continues with a steep little climb up Oxted Downs, along a broad estate path through the Titsey Plantation and another climb to the top of Botley Hill for a pub lunch.
In the afternoon another section through the plantation takes you down to Titsey Place, a manor house nestling incongruously near the M25 at the foot of the downs. The gardens can be visited from mid-May to the end of September (Wed, Sat, Sun plus some BH Mon; 1-5pm); admission (2018) is £5. There are also guided tours of the house on Wed & Sat (£8, including the gardens). The walk continues with another climb over the downs and along the side of a remote valley to the hilltop village of Woldingham, high above the railway. A path along the open hillside then takes you to the unusual settlement of Woldingham Garden Village (which retains traces of its wartime history) before dropping down to the station.
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North Downs Way, West to East, Part 3 of 7 - Oxted to Snodland
This series of seven videos is a detailed and authoritative photographic flipbook guide to all 157 miles of the North Downs Way travelling from west to east.
The North Downs Way is a long distance footpath and official National Trail, in easy reach from London, that passes through two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: the Surrey Hills and the Kent Downs. In doing so it traverses the range of hills stretching from Farnham in western Surrey to Dover in the heel of Kent.
Links to the rest of the NDW west to east series
Part 1 Farnham to Dorking:
Part 2 Dorking to Oxted:
Part 4 Snodland to Lenham:
Part 5 Lenham to Patrixbourne:
Part 6 Patrixbourne to Wye:
Part 7 Wye to Dover:
The National Trail Web Site
Ordinance Survey Maps covering the NDW
1:50000 Map Nos. 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189
1:25000 Map Nos. 137, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
Public Houses and Inns
05:17 The Rose and Crown, Dunton Green:
06:00 The Horns, Otford (closed):
06:05 The Crown, Otford:
06:08 The Woodman, Otford:
11:26 The Virgo Inn, Virgo Village:
Places of Interest
00:25 The Greenwich Meridian:
01:34 Hill Park:
01:40 Park Wood Golf Club:
03:30 Ivy Farm nr Knockholt Radio Masts:
04:38 Chevening House:
05:03 Woodlands Boarding Kennels and Cattery:
05:55 The River Darent, Preservation Society:
06:02 Otford Village Hall:
06:07 St Bartholomew’s Church, Otford:
06:12 Otford Train Station:
07:13 Oak Hall Otford Manor:
07:28 Kemsing Down:
10:01 Wrotham:
10:36 Wrotham Water:
11:40 Trosley Country Park:
Music
Music for Manatees Kevin MacLeod (
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Urbex ~ Oxted Lime Kilns & 1946 Chalk Pit Murder
History: The Chalk Pit murder 30 November 1946:
Tom Roberts called to a murder at Woldingham by Superintendent King of Oxted Division.141 Chalk Pit murder: The extraordinary events surrounding the murder of John Mudie whose strangled body was found in a Surrey chalk pit in 1946 and the most unlikely pair who were charged with the crime Thomas Ley, former Minister of Justice in New South Wales and Lawrence Smith, a labourer. A lady whom Ley admired happened to live in the same lodging house as Mudie and he became convinced they were having an affair. His insane jealousy led him to plan the abduction and murder of Mudie. DI and local DS went to the scene. Eric Gardner the Surrey Pathologist plus Keith Simpson. Fred Shoobridge 1999: I took over the exhibits (I did a months' CID training). I took them to the office and then on to the Yard if necessary. I made the initial enquiries and took the statements. For a jealous man to murder a woman or his rival in love is reprehensible enough, but for a man to plot such a murder and pay two men to carry out the dirty work on his behalf, is infinitely worse. Especially when the murdered man is a perfectly innocent individual who had no possible claim upon the attentions of the woman with whom he was accused of having a liaison: in fact the only time he ever met her was when he passed her once on the stairs when she was staying for a few days in the same house. 1946, 30 November: Woldingham Chalk Pit: Walter Coombs walking his dog found a body. Dr Eric Gardner the pathologist called to the scene. Undertook an examination and found man aged about thirty five, dead about forty eight hours, suffered from asphyxiation. Clear from a lack of mud on the shoes killed and brought to the scene. The post-mortem was held at the Oxted mortuary. Rope burn encircled the neck. Identification card carried in name of John McMain Mudie a thirty five year old barman who had been working at the Reigate Hill Hotel. DS Fred Shoobridge undertook initial enquiries which took him to Mudie's old digs in Wimbledon where the landlady Mrs Evans said that Mudie had been introduced there to a Mrs Byron Brook the director of a property company during a chance meeting when they met on the stairs. Letters from a firm of solicitors were found in Mudie's room and Shoobridge interviewed them and they said that they had been instructed by the chairman of a property company Thomas Ley, who lived in Beaufort Gardens, Kensington. Shoobridge interviewed him. As a result of this interview and one with property developers Superintendent Tom Roberts the head of Surrey Constabulary Criminal Investigation Department took over the case. Ley was a former Minister of Justice in New South Wales. Returned to England in 1930 followed shortly by Mrs Brook who had been his mistress for twenty five years. Ley became obsessively jealous. She was sixty six and did not look any younger but Ley thought younger men were after her. Roberts called on the assistance of Chief Inspector Arthur Philpot of Scotland Yard who took charge of the case. If it had been murder, Ley, who was twenty two stone, would have needed help to do it and to dispose of the body. Following publicity an ex boxer John William Buckingham went to Scotland Yard and said that he had been paid £200 by Ley to kidnap Mudie, who was lured to Ley's house where an accomplice Lawrence Smith was. There was no fight or struggle. We just shut the door on him. Ley paid the money and I left as fast as I could with Smith. Smith was traced, a carpenter who had worked in Ley's house. He confirmed his accomplice's story but said that when Mudie entered the house, Buckingham was waiting for him, holding a rug, while Smith held a clothes line. We kidnapped him by throwing the rug over his head, and my job was to tie the clothes-line round his arms, legs and body so that he could not escape, but leaving the rug loose enough so that he could breathe, but not shout or anything like that. They left Mudie in a chair with a gag round his mouth. Smith and Buckingham left. Buckingham later agreed that he had placed a rug over Mudie's head but denied that he had tripped and fallen and that a gag had been used. Ley interviewed and denied any involvement.
Philpot found that Smith had hired a car and he was identified by one of the people who saw him at the chalk pit. Another witness did not identify Buckingham. Smith and Ley charged. Lord Chief Justice presided. Much argument about the noose found around Mudie's neck and the possibility of murder or suicide. An enlarged photo revealed a straight line mark on the neck, invisible to the naked eye which indicated that the noose had been tightened then dragged upwards in a horizontal position causing asphyxiation.
On 5th May 1947 Ley sentenced to death but reprieved and sent to Broadmoor, Smith also reprieved and sentenced to life. On the 24 July 1947 Ley died of a brain haemorrhage.
swcwalks, swcwalk 244, Woldingham Circular. 30/10/19.
A decent enough 9 miles (didn't visit Titsey Place) on a pleasant Autumn day in Surrey.
From the station, the Woldingham Countryside Walk is followed through Marden Park valley and then the woods of the same name. Soon, upon joining the North Downs Way, the hum of the M25 can be heard and remains alongside the walker on the Oxted Downs until abating into the Titsey Plantation. This section involves following a higher path, with nice views, and returning via a lower one and so back over the Downs into Woldingham. Then, it's along 'Madeira Walk' into Woldingham Garden Village, and so back to the station.
A very decent walk on a pleasant day, with splashes of autumnal colour, and not too slippery underfoot, despite the presence of chalk.
Sparrowhawk in Tring back garden
Sparrowhawk plucking dove in garden (bit gruesome!). It caught it as they both hit our patio window. The sparrowhawk then killed the dove and plucked it and ate it on the lawn.
Oxted poppy factory
Making remembrance poppies
North Downs Way, East to West, Part 2 of 7 - Canterbury to Folkestone
This series of seven videos is a detailed and authoritative photographic flipbook guide to all 157 miles of the North Downs Way travelling from east to west.
The North Downs Way is a long distance footpath and official National Trail, in easy reach from London, that passes through two designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: the Kent Downs and the Surrey Hills. In doing so it traverses the range of hills stretching from Dover in the heel of Kent to Farnham in western Surrey.
Links to the rest of the NDW east to west series
Part 1 Dover to Canterbury:
Part 3 Folkestone to Lenham:
Part 4 Lenham to Trottiscliffe:
Part 5 Trottiscliffe to Oxted:
Part 6 Oxted to Dorking:
Part 7 Dorking to Farnham:
Link to the NDW west to east series
The National Trail Web Site
Ordinance Survey Maps covering the NDW
1:50000 Map Nos. 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189
1:25000 Map Nos. 137, 138, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150
Public Houses and Inns
02:05 The Chapter Arms, Chartham Hatch:
03:57 The Star Inn, Old Wives Lees:
04:34 The White Horse, Chilham:
07:27 The Port of Call, Dover:
07:32 Duchess, Dover:
10:41 The Lighthouse Inn, Capel-le-Ferne:
11:55 The Valiant Sailor, Folkestone:
Places of Interest
01:17 Bigbury Camp Hill Fort:
01:21 The Blean:
01:35 No Man’s Orchard, Chartham Hatch:
02:31 Nickle Farm, Chartham:
04:37 Chilham Castle:
04:40 Chilham Primary School:
05:29 Godmersham Park:
06:48 All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph:
07:22 Market Square, Dover:
07:48 Dover Harbour:
07:55 Western Heights:
08:00 Drop Redoubt Fort, Western Heights:
09:03 Shakespeare Train Tunnel:
09:28 Samphire Hoe:
09:31 WWII Gun Emplacements above Samphire Hoe:
10:06 Abbots Cliff Acoustic Mirror:
10:13 Abbots Cliff House:
10:51 East Cliff and Warren Country Park:
10:54 Folkestone Warren:
11:26 The Battle of Britain Memorial:
12:03 Folkestone Harbour:
12:19 Creteway Down:
12:49 Round Hill, A20 tunnels and viaduct:
12:54 Folkestone Downs:
13:04 Castle Hill & Caesar’s Camp:
13:33 Cherry Garden Hill:
13:44 Channel Tunnel:
Music
Alfonso Ferrabosco - Lamentations III by The Tudor Consort
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Walking The North Downs Way - (Part 5) Botley Hill to Otford
Part 5 of a Video Diary documenting Paul and Marq's journey along the ancient North Downs Way National Trail which runs for 153 Miles from Farnham in Surrey to Dover in Kent. On Sunday 13th August, we start to leave Surrey and head into Kent and The Garden of England covering 11.5 Miles.
Filmed and Edited by Marq English
Music by Kevin Macleod
MEV Productions (c) 2017
Wedding Highlights Clip of Philippa and Duncan's Wedding
Wedding Highlights Clip of Philippa and Duncan's Wedding at St. Andrews Church Limpsfield Chart and Gravetye Manor filmed by VISIONS UK Wedding Video, DVD and Film in Cornwall and Devon.
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