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We offer walks in London and Home Counties, accessible by public transport.
At a moderate pace over a rolling landscape.
A fair amount of the walking in the morning will be along hard surfaces: quiet country lanes and farm tracks. However these do provide us with good views over the attractive Ouse Valley. Later we get to the impressive Ouse valley railway viaduct where we will have lunch.
After lunch, we we will be on footpaths through a mixture of meadow and woodland, possibly with some muddy sections, before descending into Haywards Heath.
Train: London St Pancras (Intl): 09:50, Farringdon: 09:54, London Blackfriars: 09:59, London Bridge: 10:05, East Croydon: 10:19, arrive Balcombe: 10:46 (Brighton train)
Buy return to Haywards Heath
Lunch: Picnic at, or near, the Ouse valley viaduct. There is a pub and a cafe by the station at the end of the walk.
Toilet: Just 1 cubicle at Balcombe station, so please use the toilets on the train so as not to delay the start of the walk. No further toilets until the end of the walk.
Balcombe Station
Haywards Heath Station
