Mole Valley Ramblers offers friendly walking in the heart of Surrey. We provide a wide and varied programme of led group walks, to which all are welcome.
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A mainly forest walk with some narrow paths and wide roads passing 10 of the Lovelace Bridge/Arch sites. This route involves some gradual climbs and descents and can be muddy after wet weather.
The 15 Lovelace bridges were built in the 1860s on the orders of Lord Lovelace who owned the East Horsley estate and who was the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. The bridges were to make possible the extraction of timber from the woods on the North Downs creating smooth gradients and going above existing roads and paths. The timber was brought out using horses. Ten of the bridges still exist and the sites of the others can be identified by the embankments leading to them and remnants of masonry, flint and bricks. The bridges were built of local flint and bricks probably from the Earl’s own brickworks. They vary in size with the most elaborate being the Dorking Arch over the CrocknorthRoad ornamented with arrow slits. The others are simpler, working bridges with the narrowest being Meadow Platt.
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