The Mole Gap Trail is a official walking route alongside the
River Mole
The River Mole is a tributary of the River Thames in southern England. It rises in West Sussex near Gatwick Airport and flows northwest through Surrey for to the Thames at Hampton Court Palace. The river gives its name to the Surrey distr ...
, linking the Surrey towns of
Dorking
Dorking () is a market town in Surrey in South East England, about south of London. It is in Mole Valley District and the council headquarters are to the east of the centre. The High Street runs roughly east–west, parallel to the Pipp ...
and
Leatherhead
Leatherhead is a town in the Mole Valley District of Surrey, England, about south of Central London. The settlement grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, from which its name is thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxon period, Lea ...
. The trail is marked on
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was ...
maps.
The trail runs through
Norbury Park, the village of
Westhumble
Westhumble is a village in south east England, approximately north of Dorking, Surrey. The village is not part of a civil parish, however the majority of the settlement is in the ecclesiastical Parish of Mickleham.
The area is served by ...
and across
Denbies Wine Estate.
Gallery
File:Follow the Trains - geograph.org.uk - 1504065.jpg, The trail is marked with metal direction signs, designed to look hand-written
File:Mole Gap Trail - geograph.org.uk - 311250.jpg, Footpath from Cowslip Farm to Norbury Park
See also
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Long-distance footpaths in the UK
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Thames Down Link
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North Downs Way
The North Downs Way National Trail is a long-distance path in southern England, opened in 1978. It runs from Farnham to Dover, past Guildford, Dorking, Merstham, Otford and Rochester, along the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Be ...
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London Loop
References
External links
Footpaths in Surrey
Long-distance footpaths in England
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