Places to see in ( Oxted - UK )
Places to see in ( Oxted - UK )
Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs. The town is located around 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Croydon in Greater London 8.5 miles (13.7 km) west of Sevenoaks in Kent, and 9 miles (14 km) north of East Grinstead in West Sussex.
Oxted is a commuter town which has a station with direct train services to London. Its main developed area is contiguous with the village of Limpsfield. The source of the River Eden, a tributary of the River Medway, is just north at Titsey. The settlements of Hurst Green and Holland are also within the civil parish.
Three mills are mentioned in the inquisition on Roland of Oxted, 1291–2. To a greater or lesser extent these were alienated from the main manor, which had become one of four, before 1689, when they were in the possession of Thomas Causton. In 1712 only one is mentioned as appertaining to the manor. The five manors were: Oxted, Barrow Green, Bursted/Bearsted, Broadham, Stocketts and Foyle.
The Greenwich Meridian runs through Oxted, passing through Oxted School. The parish encompasses a long divide between two ranges of hills, reaching up to the escarpments of the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge which is itself almost completely eroded at Hurst Green within the parish due to the action of the multiple headwaters of the River Eden, Kent.
The north of the parish is within the Vale of Holmesdale, which is drained by four, unconnected rivers. A nearby village is Tandridge, to the southwest, which sits on an edge of the Greensand Ridge. Limpsfield, to the east, is contiguous with Oxted; both have a clustered community with the remainder of the land largely wooded or agricultural. Godstone is to the west and Crowhurst, Surrey to the south. Woldingham on the North Downs is to the north.
Oxted is one of the few Surrey towns to retain its town brass band, Oxted Band, which has been a fixture within the town since 1901. The town became the administrative town of the Tandridge District when it was established in 1974. Oxted is host to a charity pram race held annually. It was started in 1977 by Eric and Elsie Hallson, who ran it for nearly 20 years before retiring. Oxted is served by Oxted railway station and Hurst Green railway station on the Oxted Line.
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Places to see in ( Westerham - UK )
Places to see in ( Westerham - UK )
Westerham is a town and civil parish in Kent, England, 5 miles west of Sevenoaks. It is recorded as early as the 9th century, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in a Norman form, Oistreham. (compare Ouistreham in Normandy, Oistreham in 1086). Hām is Old English for a village or homestead, and so Westerham means a westerly homestead. The River Darent flows through the town, and formerly powered three watermills.
There is evidence that the area around Westerham has been settled for thousands of years: finds such as a Celtic fortification (c 2000 BC) and a Roman road are close by, along with the remains of a Roman encampment just past the ruins of a tower south of the town at the summit of Tower Woods. The tower dates back to the 18th century, and was originally constructed by the owners of Squerryes Court as a folly for their children's amusement.
The manor was originally run by Godwin, Earl of Wessex and later by his son Harold Godwinson the last Saxon King of England. The first Norman lord of Westerham was Eustace II of Boulogne, and the town appears in the Domesday Book as Oistreham. By 1227 Henry III granted Westerham a market charter, making the new village a major player in the buying and selling of cattle in Kent, a tradition that survived to 1961 when the last cattle market was held. St Mary's Church is thought to date from the 13th century, although it is much altered in Victorian times. In 1503 the Protestant martyr John Frith was born in the town.
In 1922 Winston Churchill MP purchased Chartwell Manor on the outskirts of Westerham, which, apart from the time he spent at 10 Downing Street, was his home for the rest of his life. Chartwell is now administered by the National Trust. There is a statue of Sir Winston Churchill on the village green at Westerham. It was sculpted by Oscar Nemon and stands on a base of Yugoslavian stone, the gift of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
Chartwell is accessible from the B2026 from either Westerham to the north or from Edenbridge to the south. From the M25-junction 6, then east along the A25 via Oxted and the B269, or M25-junction 5/M26/A21, then west along the A25 near Sevenoaks and south down the B2026; or get the 246 bus to Chartwell in the Summer.
Westerham is served by the Transport for London bus service 246 with services to Bromley via Hayes and Biggin Hill, as well as the go route 401 to Sevenoaks and Southdown 594 and 595 to Tatsfield, Limpsfield and Oxted. The nearest rail link to Westerham is at Oxted station. Westerham is on the A25 road running along the Vale of Holmesdale, slightly south of the M25 motorway. The A233 road goes north to Biggin Hill and Bromley.
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COUNTRY WALK IN SURREY, ENGLAND | Surrey Hills | North Downs Way | Surrey Walk | Walk the Chalk
Route and map here: This video is about a country walk in Surrey, England. It's called Walk the Chalk and it goes from Dorking to Gomshall. Along the way it will take you through the Surrey Hills and along parts of the North Downs Way. It's a great country walk near London.
The Greenwich Meridian Trail: East Grinstead to Oxted 20 June 2018
An 11.5 mile section of the Greenwich Meridian Trail long distance footpath between East Grinstead and Oxted. The walk went via the villages of Lingfield and Crowhurst. On the walk, three churches are visited! The weather started off cloudy, but soon turned sunny and very warm. I was very tired at the end of this walk! The walk took place on Wednesday 20 June 2018.
NORTH DOWNS WAY: Day 4 - Oxted to Otford
The walk on the North Downs Way from Oxted to Otford was not my favorite 12 miles of the trail because of the farmland walking, but it still held some gorgeous hidden gems. The joy of hiking such a wooded trail in October is that I was surrounded by the gorgeous colors of autumn almost the whole way, and the golden colors almost made up for the lack of golden sun.
The Oxted to Otford section has the most awkward end to beginning public transport links and to save money I went via Tonbridge vs going into London and back out again.
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Places to see in ( Caterham - UK )
Places to see in ( Caterham - UK )
Caterham is a town in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. The town is administratively divided into two: Caterham on the Hill, and Caterham Valley, which includes the main town centre in the middle of a dry valley but rises to equal heights to the south. The town lies close to the A22, 21 miles (34 km) from Guildford and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Croydon, in an upper valley cleft into the dip slope of the North Downs. Caterham on the Hill is above the valley to the west. Due to its proximity to London, Caterham is a commuter town, with small-to-medium-sized businesses of its own but relatively few business/industrial parks. It has a significant area of retail and restaurants in Caterham Valley as well as pubs dotted throughout.
Caterham's church of St Lawrence is of Norman construction and retains a rector as its incumbent. In the reign of King John, Roger son of Everard de Gaist gave this including its church lands to the monastery of Waltham Holy Cross. Everard's grandfather was Geoffery of Caterham who gave land to his son in the 12th century. This monastery ran the glebe as a manor, receiving a grant of free warren in their demesne lands of Caterham in 1253; holding it until the dissolution of the monasteries.
The North Downs Way, a National trail popular with walkers, passes very close to the town and is readily accessible from either Harestone Valley Road or Tupwood Lane, the Celtic hillfort promontory of the Downs mentioned above, The Cardinal's Cap, and Fosterdown or Pilgrims' Fort, a London Defensive Fort at the top of part of the ridge forming Godstone Hill, in Caterham Valley.
Before 1889 Caterham was the most eastern market town of a Surrey that stretched north to Southwark. North eastern parts of the county were absorbed gradually, in part by the County of London in 1889 (to South Norwood and Wimbledon which as a result have London Postcodes) and then to towns and villages within the present boundaries that form Greater London in 1965. From 1885 Oxted and Godstone developed from villages to towns. Tandridge District formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of Caterham and Warlingham urban district along with Godstone Rural District.
Caterham is 21 miles (34 km) from the county town of Guildford and 15.5 miles (24.9 km) south of London. Caterham on the Hill is located on a considerable area of upland extending north past adjoining Kenley Aerodrome to Kenley and Hartley Hill in Reedham. This elevated area carries on west until Hooley/Old Merstham and forms a very narrow, fairly steep ridge south of Caterham Valley's centre; east of the centre of Caterham Valley are marginally higher rolling pastures of the North Downs on top of a more crevassed smaller mass of upland which forms the village of Woldingham followed by a much larger area of upland stretching from Biggin Hill to Downe and Knockholt, Kent.
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Edenbridge & Oxted Show 2021 - Kent UK Agricultural Show - Farming Event Festival - South England
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Oxted Walk: Town Centre【4K】
Located in the county of Surrey, and around 20 miles south of central London, is the town of Oxted.
The first recorded reference of a settlement at Oxted dates back to 862 AD in a charter where it appears as 'Acustyde'. The name is derived from Old English for 'oak place', i.e. place of the oak trees.
During the medieval era, a small settlement developed about a mile west of the town centre of today, adjacent to the Guildford to Canterbury road. In 1884 the railway arrived in Oxted. The site for the station was located to the northeast of what is now known as Old Oxted. This was due to practical reasons relating to the gradient of the landscape. With its proximity to London, a new settlement formed around the station. Oxted grew as a result, owing to its practicalities as a commuter town. Today, trains into central London take around 30 to 40 minutes.
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Filmed: 14th October 2022
Link to the walk on Google Maps:
Filmed on a Sony FDR-AX700 with a Zhiyun Crane 2 and a Sony ECM-XYST1M Stereo Microphone.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Station Road East
5:51 Oxted Railway Station
6:40 Hoskins Walk
7:21 Station Road West
Climbing the Medieval Tower of Oxted Church
St. Mary's Church Oxted - and I climbed to the top of it. Huge thanks to the staff of the church for allowing me to go up there.
Country Walking: Oxted Circular, Surrey. 18/11/22
A very decent offering from 'Country Walking' magazine. This one being a 9 mile circular of Oxted, Surrey, on a pleasant autumnal afternoon. This version counters the walk 'notes' by following the GPX track in a clock-wise direction.
There's a short section of residential walking on the Greensand Way to Oxted's old mill and then some fields and woods prior to crossing the noisy M25, which is audible pretty much throughout the walk, unfortunately.
Ascending woods through Marden Park, over the rail line passing under the hills and so descending to Woldingham school, with its Sacred Heart cemetery.
Lunch is had on one of the seats on Winders Hill, with views over the village of Tylers Green, and the M25.
The North Downs Way is then followed through woodland, initially, with evident signs of Ash Dieback, and then along a narrow, lower ridge path to join the Vanguard and Greensand Ways. The M25 is then crossed again.
The finale is across some fields and residential streets back to the station.
A few muddy stretches today, but, generally, the paths were fine.
Oxted - Surrey
A drive through Oxted, Westerham, Brasted, M25 Motorway and South London.
North Downs Way, West to East, Part 2 of 7 - Dorking to Oxted
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 3 Oxted to Snodland:
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
00:43 Stepping Stones, Westhumble:
02:53 Smith & Western, Boxhill:
10:02 The Harrow Inn, Chaldon:
Places of Interest
00:33 Dorking Wanderers Football Club:
01:19 River Mole:
02:26 Box Hill:
04:12 Brockham Lime Works:
05:57 Colley Hill:
06:13 The Inglis Memorial:
06:26 Reigate Fort:
06:56 Gatton Park:
07:23 The Royal Alexandra and Albert School:
07:49 Reigate Hill Golf Club:
08:04 Merstham Cricket Club:
08:25 St Katherine’s Church, Merstham:
09:48 Willey Park Farm:
11:52 Marden Park:
12:58 Oxted Quarry:
13:36 The Greenwich Meridian:
Music
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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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North Downs Way - Section 4 - Merstham to Oxted
Join the Boots On Adventures team as we journey along the North Downs Way trail between Merstham and Oxted.
We will be walking this route as well as all the other sections as a group in 2024 - to join us check out for all the information
Whitebushes to Oxted
via Outwood and South Godstone
Visiting Every Station - Uckfield Branch
It's time to visit some more stations, not just by passing through them but actually getting on or off the train at them. So I headed down to the line out to Oxted, and down the Uckfield branch where there were six stations that I needed to cross off my list.
I discovered incorrect railway fonts in the wrong colour, a mysterious railway carriage, new step-free access, a steam train, and a delightfully peaceful station to feel calm and at one with nature ...
I must also acknowledge that that was a railway crash on this line back in 1994. You can read more about that here:
North Downs Way, East to West, Part 6 of 7 - Oxted to Dorking
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 2 Canterbury to Folkestone:
Part 3 Folkestone to Lenham:
Part 4 Lenham to Trottiscliffe:
Part 5 Trottiscliffe to Oxted:
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
03:25 The Harrow Inn, Chaldon:
10:36 Smith & Western, Boxhill:
12:53 Stepping Stones, Westhumble:
Places of Interest
00:31 Oxted Quarry:
01:26 Marden Park:
03:43 Willey Park Farm:
05:04 St Katherine’s Church, Merstham:
05:24 Merstham Cricket Club:
05:31 Reigate Hill Golf Club:
05:52 The Royal Alexandra and Albert School:
06:09 Gatton Park:
06:46 Reigate Fort:
07:10 The Inglis Memorial:
07:14 Colley Hill:
09:14 Brockham Lime Works:
10:35 Box Hill:
11:29 River Mole:
13:04 Dorking Wanderers Football Club:
13:08 Denbies Wine Estate:
14:11 St Barnabas Church, Ranmore:
Music
Fluidscape Kevin MacLeod (
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WALKING AND WILD CAMPING ON THE NORTH DOWNS WAY | PART 5: OXTED TO OTFORD | TARP AND BIVVY
Part 5 of the North Downs Way saw me meeting up with a local lad named Luke who has a great YouTube channel named The Real Travelling Amigos.
This section was 11.8 miles (call it 12) from Oxted (we started at Titsey Hill car park) to the lovely old village of Otford in Kent. We crossed the county boundary from Surrey into Kent along this section.
Luke had other plans so I did the wild camp on my own in the woods along the trail that evening. He rejoined me in the morning to finish off the walk into Otford.
A link to Luke's video of our walk and to his channel. Please check it out and like and subscribe to him:
A link to his dad's Spitfire flight video:
SWC Free Walk 63, Oxted Circular. 4/9/11.
Around 13.2 miles of walking on the Kent/Surrey border through the wooded Greensand Hills. Shortly after leaving Oxted, the walker is soon at Limpsfield Church; thereafter, a number of wooded paths, including The Greensand Way, take the walker into Westerham for lunch.
After lunch, the walker ascends Hosey Hill to enter Tower Wood and then on to Chartwell for the return to Oxted.
A very pleasant walk despite the variable weather (pretty much all of part 3 in the walking notes could not be filmed due to the rain but this was pretty much inside woodland).
FRV | 401 Oxted and Westerham Bus Running Day Feeder: Dartford to Oxted | GS12 (MXX 312)
A full route visual of the long 21 miles route from Dartford Holy Trinity Church (Stop K) to Oxted. The bus used was a Guy Vixen ECW GS12.
Filmed on: 13/08/2023
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - GS12 Arriving at Dartford Holy Trinity Church (Stop K)
00:41 - Dartford Holy Trinity Church (Stop K)
01:09 - Wilmington Orange Tree
02:30 - Farningham High Street
04:23 - Otford Woodman
06:42 - Sevenoaks Bus Station
07:21 - Sevenoaks Station
07:40- Riverhead St. Mary's Church
09:02 - Westerham Kings Arms
Music:
Tobu - Candyland
Lensko - Let's Go
Alex Skrindo & Stah! - Moments
Filmed using:
- iPhone Xs