Greensand Way

Places on the trail include: Hindhead, Thursley, Wormley, Hambledon, Hascombe, Shamley Green, Holmbury St Mary, Wotton, Westcott, Dorking, Brockham, Betchworth, Reigate, Earlswood, South Nutfield, Bletchingley, Godstone, Tandridge, Broadham Green, Limpsfield, Crockham Hill, Toys Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks Weald, Knole Park, Shipbourne, Dunk's Green, West Peckham, Nettlestead Green, Yalding, Linton, Sutton Valence, Egerton, Pluckley, Little Chart, Hothfield, Kingsnorth and finally Hamstreet. ==History==

from the west A proposal for a long-distance footpath called the Greensand Way was put forward in the Greater London Plan, compiled by Patrick Abercrombie and published in 1944. One of the appendices to the plan, Map 14, shows the route running between the Reigate and Sevenoaks areas. The first part of the path to be completed, a section in the Leith Hill area was opened in June 1980. The remainder of the route in Surrey was inaugurated in May 1982, bringing the total length of the path to . Kent County Council completed its planning work on the eastern part of the Greensand Way in 1983, and the section west if the River Medway opened in April 1986. The final part of the path, east of Yalding railway station, opened on 15 April 1989. In 1998, the county councils published a guidebook entitled Along and Around the Greensand Way. ==References==