Routes England TadworthReigate and Banstead
Banstead Woods and Town

Reigate and Banstead, Tadworth, England

Banstead Woods and Town

Length5.5 mi
Elev. Gain515 ft
Est. Steps13000

Forest

Scenic views

Wild flowers

Created by l.teague751
Introduction
Banstead Woods and Town is a 5.5 mile (13,000-step) route located near Reigate and Banstead, Tadworth, England. This route has an elevation gain of about 515 ft and is rated as medium. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.

Banstead

Place
Banstead is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in north Surrey, England, on the border with London, 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Sutton, 5 miles (8 km) west of Croydon and 7.5 miles (12 km) south-east of Kingston-upon-Thames and 13.3 miles (21 km) south of Central London. On the North Downs, Banstead is on three of the four main compass points separated from other settlements by open area buffers with Metropolitan Green Belt status.

Chipstead railway station

Building
Chipstead railway station serves the village of Chipstead in Surrey. It is a late-Victorian station on the Tattenham Corner Line and was opened in 1897. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southern. It is in Travelcard Zone 6, 18 miles 41 chains (29.8 km) from Charing Cross.The station buildings are no longer used by Southern, having been sold off and converted for private use in the mid-late 1990s, and a small ticket office is in a pre-fabricated building on the Up platform.

Chipstead Downs

Place
Chipstead Downs is a 157.8-hectare (390-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Banstead in Surrey. Part of it is Park Downs, which is managed by the Banstead Commons Conservators.This site has ancient woodland and steeply sloping chalk grassland together with associated secondary woodland and scrub.

Fames Rough

Place
Fames Rough is a 23-hectare (57-acre) nature reserve south-west of Chipstead in Surrey. It is managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust and is part of the Chipstead Downs Site of Special Scientific Interest.This site is notable for its wild flowers. Part of it is grassland which is periodically ploughed in order to provide a habitat for three very rare arable weeds, ground pine, cut-leaved germander and mat-grass fescue.

Recreation Ground, Banstead

Place
The Recreation Ground is a cricket ground in Banstead, Surrey. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1955, when South Women Second XI played the Women's Cricket Association. It hosted its only first-class match in 1984, when Surrey played Cambridge University.Additionally, between 1983 and 2006, the ground played host to a number of Surrey Second XI matches in the Second XI Championship and Second XI Trophy, hosting a combined total of 20 Second XI matches.

Woodmansterne

Place
Woodmansterne is a village in the borough of Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, bordering Greater London, England. It sits on a small plateau of and a southern down slope of the North Downs and its ecclesiastical parish borders continue to span old boundaries and reach into Chipstead, Coulsdon and Wallington.

Coal & Wine Tax Post

Historical

Lady Neville Recreation Ground

Park

Pages Acre

Landform

Becken's Shaw

Landform
Route Details

Length

5.5 mi

Elev. Gain

515 ft

Est. Steps

13000
Created by
l.teague751
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