Walks From Wonersh 1: Downs Link - Gosden - Tilthams Corner - Wey Navigation - Foxburrow Hill - Bramley

 All my Walks from Wonersh start with the assumption that the walker is standing with his/her back to the main door of the Grantley Arms.

Turn left along the street past the timbered-framed cottages on your left. Continue past Church Green on your left and then St John the Baptist church. Follow the big left curve in the road and pass over Wonersh Bridge. Shortly you come to some restored level crossing gates where you turn right onto the Downs Link footpath below the station platform. Follow this footpath until it splits by an information board about the Wey and Arun Junction Canal where you take the right hand, smaller fork. Up ahead is a bridge. Go up to the right of the bridge, turn left opposite a small factory called TorqueLeader crossing over the bridge, followed almost immediately by a second bridge over the river. 

As soon as you reach Gosden Common bear right, off the road, and around the edge of the Common passing Bramley Sports Pavilion. When you reach the main road cross straight over and take the small track running slightly to your right through the woods (avoid the one going left). Shortly you reach the drive to Bramley Golf Club. Cross straight over and carry on along the footpath. At the next road cross straight over again and walk down a slightly wider track passing Gosden Farmhouse on your left hand side. After passing the sewage treatment works on the left, pass through the gate and walk straight ahead. At the junction with the road by the entrance to Unstead Manor turn left and then very shortly go right over 2 small bridges with metal railings on the side. Go over a third, brick, bridge and then immediately drop down left onto the tow path of the Wey Navigation.  

Soon after you pass the Manor Inn garden turn left to cross the Navigation by Trowers Footbridge. Follow the track ahead. After about 4 minutes, ignore the public bridleway to your left and continue slightly to your right up the hill and take the next left turn after Bunkers Hill Farm. Follow the path up through the trees. 

Partway up the hill there’s a 4-way junction with a padlocked black gate on your right with a kissing gate next to it and a footpath cutting back to the left. Take this cutback footpath carrying on through the woods. This path descends through the wood between two fences and then ascends again. Eventually you reach three steps down at a t-junction with another path. Here you turn right. Partway down the slope there is a clear view of Guildford in the Wey Valley with the Castle very obvious on the right hand side. There is also a splendid view of the Hog’s Back leading off to Farnham on the left. 

Eventually the path widens into the access track for Foxburrow Cottage. Follow this track down to the tarmac road. Cross straight over the road, go through the gate, and walk along the path on the right hand edge of Bramley Golf Course. Just beyond the 8^th tee the path jigs behind some trees and then does a little s-bend as it starts to descend down a hill. Ignore the turning to the right. Shortly you come to another fork. Take the left, main path. Follow this down the hill ignoring all left and right turnings on the way. At the bottom of the hill the path joins a private road. Follow this past a number of large residences including the Clock House. Eventually you reach the main road (A281). Here you turn right and left at the mini-roundabout by the BP garage. Soon you come to the level crossing gates from earlier in the walk. Retrace your route into Wonersh.