Start & Finish: Byfleet Road Parking, Byfleet Road, Addlestone, KT15 3JQ
Distance: 7.3 km (4.5 miles)
Elevation Change: +/- 28m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other Routes Touched (walk): Wey Navigation Footpath, Locks and Levels
Other Routes Touched (cycle): None
Cafe / pub on route: The White Hart near New Haw Lock at the start and end. Several in Byfleet village centre.
Map: Windsor, Weybridge & Bracknell Map | Thames Path | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 160
Links: Wey Navigation, River Wey, River Wey and Godalming Navigations (National Trust), New Haw, Byfleet, Brooklands

This is the third of a series of short circular walks along the River Wey and the Wey Navigation canal in Surrey. The guidance below will help you navigate but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide. Always take a map and/or a GPX route and prepare well for the weather and terrain.

This walk starts at the New Haw Lock where there’s a free car park off Byfleet Road. From here pick up the Wey Navigation Towpath, heading south. After 1 km you’ll reach Woodham Junction, where the M25, Basingstoke Canal and the London to Woking railway line all cross or connect to the canal. The M25 flyover is crosses over the canal diagonally and has some impressive artistic graffiti that’s worth checking out. After the M25 there’s a small footbridge across to the Basingstoke Canal, a nice reminder of when I cycled it a few weeks before.

After Woodham Junction continue south along the Wey Navigation for another 1 km to the Old Parvis Road Bridge. Cross over to the western side of the canal then find the steps up to the new Pavis Road bridge to cross back over to the eastern side of the canal. This is where we leave the Wey Navigation for this section.

Here you have 2 options to cross through Byfleet. The shortest, simplest route is to continue east along Parvis Road then take a left to follow the A318 Sopwith Drive and find the footpath on the eastern side of the A318 that heads in an easterly direction to the River Wey. Alternatively, as we did, follow a slightly longer, but less busy route through Byfleet village centre via High Road. This re-joins Parvis Road where you can cross over and follow Green Lane and Weymede to meet the footpath that connects to the River Wey. Note that some of the gates to the footpath at the northern end of Weymede can be locked as it’s a private estate. We found one that was unlocked, but it you find all gates locked you may need to take a longer route to join the path from the A318 Sopwith Road.

Once on the River Wey path follow it in a northerly direction, keeping the river on your right and Brooklands on your left. Brooklands is the former aerodrome and racing circuit that has since been converted into several different uses including a community park and the home to Mercedes World. After the northern end of Brooklands, the River Wey and the footpath pass under the large brick railway bridge that carries the London to Woking line, previously seen at Woodham Junction. After the railway bridge take a left at the path junction to follow the Locks and Levels path back to new Haw Lock.