Walking the River Wey Part 5: Canons and Cornmills
The ruins of Newark Priory
Start & Finish: Ripley High Street, Ripley, Woking, GU23 6AN
Distance: 8.6 km (5.3 miles)
Elevation Change: +/- 50m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other Routes Touched (walk): Wey Navigation Footpath, The Fox Way
Other Routes Touched (cycle): Surrey Cycleway
Cafe / pubs on route: Several in Ripley High Street at the start and end. We like Nest Home and Cafe. Also, The Anchor (5.7 km in)
Map: Guildford & Farnham Map | Godalming & Farnborough | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 145
Links: Wey Navigation, River Wey, River Wey and Godalming Navigations (National Trust), Pyrford, Ripley, Newark Priory
This is the fourth 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.
As with the Weybridge Locks and Levels Walk, this was an already established route rather than one that I created myself. The PDF is a great guide to the walk so I won’t repeat any of it here. The only thing to note is that the route does miss a short section of the Wey Navigation near Pyrford Lakes in order to include Ripley and Ockham Mill. If you prefer a shorter walk that misses Ripley and Ockham Mill but covers the full length of the Wey then the Newark Lane Car Park is a good alternative place to start and end the walk.
Previous section (north): Walking the River Wey Part 4: Byfleet and Wisley
Next section (south): Walking the River Wey Part 6: Newark Lane and Send (Blog post coming soon)