Connect Headley with Slow Ways
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Headley’s five Slow Ways are 55% checked
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Many Slow Ways have several route options. Some will be better than others, or good for different reasons.
Our goal is for each Slow Way to have at least one route that is verified and surveyed. To be verified – and get its snail badge – a route needs at least three positive reviews.
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Walk to Headley from further afield
| Slow Way | Route | To do | ||||||||
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Ashtead—Headley
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Ashhea one |
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U U |
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Survey me | Distance 5km/3mi | Ascent 132m | Descent 28m | ||
Dorking—Headley
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Dorhea one |
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U U |
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Verify me | Distance 9km/6mi | Ascent 288m | Descent 182m | ||
Dorking—Headley
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Dorhea two |
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U U |
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Review me | Distance 10km/6mi | Ascent 250m | Descent 139m | ||
Headley—Banstead
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Heaban one |
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U U |
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Pioneer me | Distance 9km/5mi | Ascent 121m | Descent 136m | ||
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Headley—Banstead
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Heaban two |
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U U |
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Pioneer me | Distance 8km/5mi | Ascent 90m | Descent 105m | ||
Headley—Banstead
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Heaban three |
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U U |
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Review me | Distance 8km/5mi | Ascent 85m | Descent 100m | ||
Headley—Reigate
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Hearei one |
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U U |
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Verify me | Distance 9km/6mi | Ascent 149m | Descent 234m | ||
Leatherhead—Headley
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Leahea one |
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U U |
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Review me | Distance 7km/4mi | Ascent 35m | Descent 170m | ||
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Leatherhead—Headley
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Leahea two |
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U U |
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Pioneer me | Distance 6km/4mi | Ascent 180m | Descent 47m | ||
Leatherhead—Headley
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Leahea three |
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U U |
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Verify me | Distance 6km/4mi | Ascent 175m | Descent 42m |
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Collective progress
45% of Headley’s five route options are drawn, reviewed, surveyed and/or verified
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5 people have contributed to Headley’s Slow Ways
4 people have pledged to walk and review a route
0 people have surveyed a route in Headley
56km out of 79km have been walked and reviewed
91km of reviews have been shared in Headley
Latest Updates
Keep an eye on route through Headley as easy to wander off main route!, Much of the walk is on all weather paths so not so much mud and only one stile! Toilets and snacks either at café opposite Burford Bridge hotel or pub at Westhumble....
Muddyboots
From Headley the route starts with some ziggy-zaggy footpaths, and a few gates (photo #1), before I had to cross through a field with a (docile) horse. Soon, the route went down the slope (photo #3) and then up again in the direction of the M25, which you could hear a little. After Colley Hill, the walk went down over a slippery path (photo #11)....
Derick Rethans
You quickly leave Letterhead's residential streets (photo #1) behind with a walk through some footpaths, before heading down a lane with cottages (photo #2). There is then a short section along a lane (photo #12), before you go up a narrow path (photo #13) to the top of the next hill....
Derick Rethans
340 metres walk on Hurst Lane with no pavement but reasonably quiet....
JohnMyerson
Surface generally good but plenty of tree roots on parts of the North Downs Way....
JohnMyerson
The Leech Lane (B2033) road walk in Headley can be avoided by using Tot Hill Lane and Tumber Street....
JohnMyerson
JohnMyerson added Leahea three, a new walk from Leatherhead to Headley
Walk this routeShops at Headley, Tadworth, Burgh Heath (and petrol station) and Banstead....
JohnMyerson
Paths nearer Headley are quite narrow with some kissing gates which would prevent use of pushchairs etc....
JohnMyerson
JohnMyerson added Heaban three, a new walk from Headley to Banstead
Walk this routeJohnMyerson added Leahea two, a new walk from Leatherhead to Headley
Walk this routeNice route - mostly quiet, barring a short stretch parallel to the motorway. Surface is generally good, though a bit soft/muddy in places. One path on the way into Headley easy to miss without a map, but otherwise well signposted and clear....
G-Squirrel
* Duplicates much of the Ashtead - Headley route, backtracking most of the way into Ashtead, which feels like a bit of a detour....
G-Squirrel
The only downside of this route, in my opinion, is the stretch of path which runs parallel to the M25, which is very noisy....
Smatticus1991
These include Headley Heath, Box Hill and the River Mole. Box Hill has a viewpoint along the route which offers spectacular views of Dorking, Leith Hill, the Mole Valley, the Weald and both the North and (distantly) South Downs....
Smatticus1991
Slow Ways added Leahea one, a new walk from Leatherhead to Headley
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Headley’s Slow Ways starting point
Grid ref
TQ2044654796
Lat / Lon
51.27958° / -0.27446°
Easting / Northing
520,446E / 154,796N
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