Walks you can reach from Oxted by train
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East Grinstead Circular via Standen House (Sussex)
15 minutes direct from Oxted.
Beginner-friendly: This short walk is nearly all National Trust territory and signposted. If you want to make it even shorter and simpler, just skip the detour through the woods. The lunch stop is a simple café, so no messing around with booking a table in advance. Extensive woodland. Mostly secluded.
Time: 2h30–4h30
1 lunch spot: Standen House café (1h–2h in)
Source: Trains2Green.
Woldingham Circular via Titsey Place (Surrey)
6 minutes direct from Oxted.
Rural valleys, North Downs escarpments, beech woods, plantation paths, open downland, hilltop village and historic garden village.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Eridge Circular via Groombridge (Sussex)
30 minutes direct from Oxted.
Undulating High Weald, streams, meadows, sandstone outcrops, heathland, conifer-to-heathland nature reserve and woods.
Time: 4h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Hurst Green to Sevenoaks (Surrey)
2 minutes direct from Oxted.
Greensand ridge, chart hills, undulating woodland, commons, deer park, historic estates and suburban old town.
Warnings: Steep climbs.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Hever to Leigh (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Oxted.
Undulating hills, open fields, beech woods, rivers, ponds, quaint villages and historic estates.
Time: 3h30
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Cowden to Eridge (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Oxted.
Weald pasture, woods, hills, undulating fields and valley paths.
Time: 6h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
East Grinstead to Wivelsfield (Sussex)
15 minutes direct from Oxted.
Hills, streams, ponds, heaths, mixed woodland rich in bluebells and wood anemones, pastures and heathery commons with South Downs views.
Time: 7h30
Warnings: Mud and flood prone.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Ashurst to Eridge (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Oxted.
Low hills, steep-sided valleys, field edges, country lanes, wooded valleys, sandstone outcrops, heath and meadows.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Balcombe to East Grinstead (Sussex)
15 minutes direct from Oxted.
Gentle wooded hills, muddy farm tracks, landscaped gardens, reservoir shoreline, open fields and woodland paths.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be very muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Upper Warlingham Circular via Selsdon Wood Nature Reserve (Surrey)
9 minutes direct from Oxted.
Chalk downland, bluebell woods, open meadows, enclosed bridleways, isolated valleys, farmland and nature reserves on the London/Surrey border.
Time: 4h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Lingfield Circular via Forest Row (Surrey)
9 minutes direct from Oxted.
Third stage of the Vanguard Way, from Lingfield through fields and woods to Forest Row on the edge of Ashdown Forest.
Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.
Time: 4h–7h30
Warnings: Ends at Forest Row, which has no railway station.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Edenbridge Town Circular (Kent)
9 minutes direct from Oxted.
Gentle farmland, water meadows, riverside paths, farm airstrip and flat Eden Valley.
Time: 3h
Warnings: Can be waterlogged.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).