Bramley Circuit, Surrey

This time we chose a local walk ...  starting in Bramley along the downs link railway line and Wey south canal...  these two run next to each other here joining up just outside the village.

We parked up at the library car park in the centre and onto the old railway at the remains of the station .

At the point where a road crosses the canal, the old railway and the river with a complex bridge we turned off south.

Across the cricket field I had passed for so many journeys into Guildford to the office and into the wood land on the other side.

There were lots of expensive houses around here - conveniently close to the golf course. 

The path opened out to fields leading towards a massive sewage works, with some overgrown outfall areas.

Continuing on again...  we had reached the bridge on the back double across to the Godalming road.

We followed the edge of the river Wey river/ navigation valley here, keeping to the path besides marshy lands 

At a complex crossroads of paths we turned up towards Farley hill.

The path ascended slowly at first along a bridle way in the edge of a wood, before turning steeply up a deep cut track to the higher level of the hill.

we could see over towards Guildford and the construction of some large towers.

Heading south on one of the back roads past a close of expensive houses alongside the golf course, before cutting across down the side of a "big" house - seemingly an old manor house, and up a parallel road to a mill pond

The mill pond was spectacular ...  flat and reflective leading to Eastwater house - another farm house split into a commune of accommodation units.

A short section up a deep cut bridleway opened out into rolling hills as we headed towards the Birtley estate.

The sun was going down below the skyline as we came out at one of the farms on the estate ...  The walk now 

followed alongside horse fields and some scrubby woodland.

The path descends back into Bramley down a deep cutting, going straight through the housing estates coming out just down the road from the car park

A final look at the cider presses, and back home as the light faded.