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Woking Cycle Users’ Group

Leisure Cycling

Off-road rides for families with children

We are very lucky in the Woking area to have a huge choice of cycling opportunities.

For families with children, depending on their ages, there are a number of options that you might like to explore. If your children are between about 5 and 10, then you might like to try places such as Woking Park and Goldsworth Park Lake. Both have other attractions to keep children interested (pond or lake and playgrounds with swings, etc). Goldsworth Park Lake is ideal because of the extensive network of paths that can be explored in the vicinity and it also has a BMX track. The Recreation Ground at St Johns is also very good for young children with bikes because you can cycle traffic-free to a narrow footbridge over the railway track and watch the trains pass underneath.

For slightly older children, the Basingstoke Canal is a good option. You can go as far as you like in either direction and there is much to discover, including the Canal Visitor Centre just south of Deepcut and, in the summer months, a wonderful miniature railway also very close to Deepcut. In the other direction, you can cycle along the towpath to Walton-on-Thames, Hampton Court and Kingston. You can even cycle off-road as far as Putney! By taking a right turn when you reach the River Wey Navigation you can cycle off-road to Guildford.

Again for slightly older children, much of the common land in the Borough is ideal for mountain biking - including Horsell Common, Chobham Common and Sheets Heath Common. There is also a very good track that goes all the way round the spectacular Westend Common military land.

For parents with young teenagers, if you are prepared to use short sections of minor country lanes, the extensive network of public bridle paths provides an almost limitless choice of rides.

The Ordnance Survey maps of the area are invaluable for finding suitable nearby routes - either the Landranger 186 or the more detailed Explorer 145.

West Surrey CTC District Association

If you would like to join an organised ride, the CTC's Woking Wayfarers meet on Sundays, at 9.15am, outside the Woking Main Post Office for morning only rides with a coffee stop. The Midweek Wayfarers meet on Wednesdays, at various locations in Woking for all day rides.

For further information on both groups visit the CTC, West Surrey District Association's web page and select from the Runs List.

Cycle Rides for Inexperienced Cyclists, including families

Why not come on one of our own monthly rides during the summer months. If you like to know more about these then have a look at our Rides Page

Surrey County Council has added a Woking Link to the signposted Surrey Cycleway, which gives you the chance to explore some of the most beautiful and tranquil parts of southern Surrey by bike. The route uses quiet country roads and lanes and is well sign-posted. As well as showing the way, these signs also alert motorists that cyclists share the road. The signs are brown - the same as tourist attraction signs. For further information and a free map, fill in a Request Form on the SCC Web Site or contact the Surrey Tourism Unit, Surrey County Council, County Hall, Kingston, KT1 2DT - Tel 0181 541 8090.

See the Surrey County Council web site for the original full-size version of this map.

How to get to the Surrey Cycleway from Woking

LT=left turn; RT=right turn; SA=straight ahead.

Starting from the southern entrance of Woking railway station:

LT	out of station entrance into Oriental Road. Follow this road to its end, ignoring all left and right turns to join Maybury Hill. At the T junction/double mini-roundabout
RT	and immediately
LT	into College Road, which leads into East Hill. At the T junction at the bottom of the hill
LT	onto B382 Old Woking Road. Go past the recreation ground on the right and then
RT	into Pyrford Common Road. Stay on this road, which leads into B367 Church Hill then Newark Lane, over the River Wey to Ripley. At the cross roads in the village
SA	crossing Ripley High St into Rose Lane. Follow this lane over the A3. Ignore the first right turn, then
RT	into Hungry Hill Lane. Follow this lane, which leads into Ripley Road and under a railway bridge to East Clandon. Follow the main road through the village to a junction with the A246 Epsom Road. Take care crossing this busy road
SA	into Staple Lane. Go to the end of this lane to join the Surrey Cycleway, in the North Downs, at the T junction with Combe Lane.

(LT here for Boxhill & Westhumble railway station)
(RT here for Godalming)

Classic Rides from Woking
Woking to London on the Waterways
Woking to London Direct
Woking to the Sea
Woking to Bristol