A walk on the Weald side

The walk was arranged to illustrate some of the points made during a recent talk about the Geology of the Waeld and its inmpact on Croydon.

We set off from the National Trust car park at Boxhill pausinf at the view point to note the course of the Mole and the way it has eroded this part of the Weald to create the present landscape.

Fortunately on the day we were walking the sun had burned off the mist which filled the valley on the previous Sunday.

From there we made our way along the chalk escarpment North Downs through the wooded hill side towards Bletchingly quarry and the remains of  the Victorian lime kilne.

We then crossed the clay strata at the foot of the escarpment, under the railway and over the A25 to the sand and gravel deposited by the Mole after it had eroded the from the Greensands ridge which has been largly eliminated between Bletchinly and Dorking.

We crossed the Mole and walked through the centre of Brockam admiring the start of the construction of the bonfire on the village green which prompted child hood memories of some of our party who attended these calebrations many years ago.

Moving out of Brockham on footpaths towards Bletchingly we climed a small rise - all that remains of the greensands ridge here and were able to look back on our route before dropping back down to the Mole and a pleasnat lunch at the Dolphin pub opposite this forge: