Greyhound approved walks in and around Surrey
Woking Palace is a former manor house of the Royal Manor of Woking that has Scheduled Ancient Monument classification. King Henry VIII visited Woking Manor often as a boy and during his reign - as did Queen Elizabeth I after him. He also honeymooned (!) there with Catherine Parr in 1543. All that remains of the palace are a barrel vault and some adjoining Tudor brick walls but it's kinda cool to be able to walk through a room that Henry VIII has walked through.
Capel is a village in Surrey just north of the border with Sussex and just to the side of the A24, which used to pass through it before the bypass was built. Like so many of these little places in Surrey, it dates back to the Domesday Book. The area around was mainly used for farming but the heavy clay soil also nurtured a thriving brickmaking industry and by the early 19th century there were several brickyards too.
You'll find Tower Wood on Hosey Common (also known as Hosey Hill) just south of Westerham in Kent and a little north of Chartwell, the former home of the late Sir Winston Churchill, who was the Prime Minister from 1940-1945. Tower Wood is so-called because of the ruins of an 18th century folly tower nestled at its heart.
Selsdon Nature Reserve, also known as the "Bird Sanctuary", is a 200 acre green space on the outskirts of the London Borough of Croydon and part of the London Greenbelt. An impressive bluebell wood in the spring, it's home to a number of wood carvings/statues.
As pleasant as it is, there's not a great deal to say about Wotton, which is a 'well wooded parish', according to Wikipedia, a little to the west of Westcott and the town of Dorking. It existed back in the days of the Domesday Book and is home to the stately Wotton House, a pub called the Wotton Hatch, a few houses, and St John's Church.
Known as “London’s lost route to the sea”, the Wey and Arun Canal is a partially open, 18.5 mile (30km) canal running southwards from the River Wey at Shalford in Surrey to the River Arun at Pallingham in West Sussex. This walk takes you west from the canal centre by the Onslow Arms in Loxwood, through the countryside and back along the canal.
Leith Hill is in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the highest point along the Greensand Ridge at 294m above sea level. Leith Hill tower, a folly built in 1765, is on the top of the hill.
Sheepleas is a 110 hectare site comprising mixed ancient woodland, grassland and scrub. Its name comes from its history as an area where sheep were grazed, although this is no longer the case and today it is managed by Surrey County Council and Surrey Wildlife Trust.
Nonsuch Park is a large open leisure space with an extensive network of surfaced and unsurfaced paths. It is home to a variety of different species of flowers, birds and insects. Situated in its centre is the grade II-listed Nonsuch Mansion, which was built in the mid-eighteenth century and extended at the beginning of the nineteenth in Tudor Gothic style. The park was once home to the very grand Nonsuch Palace built by Henry VIII in 1538, but this was demolished in 1682.
The historic village of Ripley has existed since Norman times and was first recorded in documents of around 1200. It developed with the establishment of Newark Priory and, during the Tudor period, became very prosperous as a place to stop on the (now A3) road between London and the rapidly growing naval town of Portsmouth.
Walks with Rena 