Epsom Downs is best known as the home of the Epsom Downs Racecourse and the prestigious Epsom Derby horse race.
Epsom Downs Racecourse
Richmond Park
Richmond Park is the largest of London's eight royal parks. Covering 2,500 acres, it's also the capital's largest Site of Special Scientific Interest and a designated nature reserve that boasts ancient woods, rolling hills and open grasslands.
Sheepleas
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.
Newlands Corner
Newlands Corner on Albury Downs is a 250-acre nature reserve of open chalk grassland and ancient woodlands about four miles east of Guildford town centre. Crime writer Agatha Christie disappeared from here December 1926 - she was found 11 days later in Harrogate, apparently unable to explain what had happened.
Swinley Forest
Swinley Forest comprises 2,600 acres of Crown Estate land straddling the Surrey-Berkshire county boundary. It boasts woodlands, streams, grasslands and ponds.
Puttenham Common
Puttenham Common is a private estate of woodland, heathland, grassland, wetlands and ponds managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.
Ranmore Common Woods
Ranmore Common is an area of wooded former common land on the North Downs immediately northwest of Dorking.
Ranmore Common – Denbies viewpoint
Ranmore Common is an area of wooded former common land on the North Downs immediately northwest of Dorking.
Nonsuch Park and Warren Farm
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.
Cowdray Forest (and Worth Forest)
Cowdray Forest is part of the Paddockhurst Estate, a privately-owned woodland which allows some access to the public. Here, you'll find a grid plantation of different types of trees so there's quite a lot of variety to be had on any walk as you pass from section to section. Cowdray Forest adjoins Worth Forest, although there's nothing to tell you when you pass from one into the other.
Walks with Rena 