INTRODUCTION CYCLING: THE ESSENTIALS HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 1 FRENSHAM LOOP Start/end: Bentley Station (loop) Distance: 27.8km Time: 2½hrs Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Common and heathland, taking in Frensham Common SSSI and Alice Holt Forest 2 FARNHAM TO GUILDFORD Start/end: Farnham Station/Guildford Station Distance: 18.9km (+10.6km in 2 extensions) Time: 1½hrs (+1¾hrs) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Country lanes, pretty villages, historic churches and the exceptional Watts Cemetery Chapel; beautiful vistas on The Mount 3 MILFORD SURREY TO FARNHAM Start/end: Milford Station/Farnham Station Distance: 33.5km (+4.5km in 2 extensions) Time: 3hrs (including both extensions) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Historic churches, two medieval bridges, two SSSIs and beautiful Farnham 4 FRIMLEY TO ASH VALE Start/end: Frimley Station/Ash Vale Station Distance: 29.3km (+2.9km extension) Time: 3hrs (+15mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Ash Ranges Nature Reserve, Basingstoke Canal towpath, and farmland 5 SUNNINGDALE TO ADDLESTONE Start/end: Sunningdale Station/Addlestone Station Distance: 31km Time: 2½hrs Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Chobham Common SSSI, the historic village of Chobham, country roads and woodland, as well as the Basingstoke Canal and River Wey towpaths 6 WITLEY LOOP Start/end: Witley Station (loop) Distance: 22.

2km (+6.3km extension & 2km alt. route) Time: 2hrs (45mins extension & 10mins alt. route) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Historic churches and inns, a 18th-century labourer''s cottage and 16th-century Vann House 7 GUILDFORD CASTLE LOOP Start/end: Castle Arch, Quarry Street, Guildford (loop) Distance: 14.5km (+4.3km in 2 extensions & 2.2km alt. route) Time: 1½hrs (45mins extensions & 20mins alt.

route) Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Chilworth Gunpowder Mills and Guildford Castle 8 CRANLEIGH DISUSED RAILWAY LOOP Start/end: Chilworth Station (loop) Distance: 38.2km Time: 3½hrs Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Blackheath Common SSSI, Winterfold Forest and a railway station that starred in some famous films 9 WEST BYFLEET LOOP Start/end: West Byfeet Station (loop) Distance: 17.8km (+5.6km extension) Time: 2hrs (+30mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Ruined Newark Priory, the Elizabethan Summer House of John Donne, the historic village of Ripley, and the spectacular RHS Garden Wisley 10 WEST CLANDON TO EAST HORSLEY Start/end: Clandon Station/Horsley Station Distance: 27.4km (+3.5km extension) Time: 2½hrs (+30mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Beautiful villages, peaceful countryside, challenging off-road routes and magnificent views of southern Surrey 11 EFFINGHAM JUNCTION LOOP Start/end: Effingham Junction Station (loop) Distance: 19.9km (+5.3km extension) Time: 2hrs (+30mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: The last semaphore tower in England, William of Ockham''s historic church, and the stunning Painshill Park 12 GOMSHALL LOOP Start/end: Gomshall Station (loop) Distance: 20.

8km (+5.6km extension) Time: 2hrs (+30mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Holmbury Hill with its Iron Age fort, the ancient woodland of Abinger Roughs, and Tillingbourne Waterfall 13 HORSLEY TO EFFINGHAM JUNCTION Start/end: Horsley Station/Effingham Junction Station Distance: 27.8km (+2.3km extension) Time: 2¾hrs (+10mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: East Horsley, the Lovelace Bridges Trail, Denbies vineyard, Polesden Lacey and four spectacular views 14 OCKLEY TO HOLMWOOD Start/end: Ockley Station/Holmwood Station Distance: 28.5km Time: 2½hrs Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Leith Hill, the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, and some of Surrey''s best country roads 15 BOX HILL AND WESTHUMBLE TO CLAYGATE Start/end: Boxhill and Westhumble Station/Claygate Station Distance: 22.1km Time: 2hrs Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Headley village, Ashtead Common SSSI and the smallest pub in the UK 16 HOLMWOOD COMMON LOOP NORTH Start/end: Holmwood Common (loop) Distance: 24.5km (+9.4km in 2 extensions) Time: 2hrs (+1¼hrs) Difficulty: 1 Highlights: Historic villages, ruined Betchworth Castle and the beautiful ancient woodland of Holmwood Common 17 HOLMWOOD COMMON LOOP SOUTH Start/end: Holmwood Common (loop) Distance: 24.

5km Time: 2hrs Difficulty: 1 Highlights: The old Newdigate Brickworks, Glover''s Wood SSSI, historic Charlwood village, and the working Lowfield Heath Windmill 18 MERSTHAM LOOP Start/end: Merstham Station (loop) Distance: 26.3km Time: 2hrs Difficulty: 2 Highlights: The wildlife-rich Spynes Mere Nature Reserve, the 17th-century Outwood Windmill, churches from the Norman era, and the historic villages of Outwood and Nutfield 19 LINGFIELD LOOP Start/end: Lingfeld Station (loop)Distance: 22.2km Time: 2hrs Difficulty: 1 Highlights: The historic village of Lingfield with its 18th-century poachers'' prison, the 1,500-year-old Crowhurst yew tree, and Haxted Watermill in Staffhurst Wood SSSI 20 WOLDINGHAM LOOP Start/end: Woldingham Station (loop) Distance: 27.5km Time: 2¼hrs Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Stunning views from Botley Hill and Woldingham Viewpoint, and Marden Park Manor, once the home of William Wilberforce 21 HURST GREEN TO OXTED Start/end: Hurst Green Station/Oxted Station Distance: 28.5km (+3.4km extension) Time: 2½hrs (+30mins) Difficulty: 2 Highlights: Historic Old Oxted, Staffhurst Wood, Limpsfield Common, the last resting place of Frederick Delius, and the Georgian splendour of Titsey Place and Gardens ACCOMMODATION CYCLE HIRE AND REPAIRS FURTHER INFORMATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX.