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Polesden Lacey Butterfly Walk, Polesden Lacey

Loop Walk · Surrey

150

XP

about 42 min walking

Easy
3.08 km
Loop
01:30
Graded from its length and climb.

The Polesden Lacey estate is home to a large variety of butterflies. Ranmore Common, is a SSSI, which protects the wide variety of rare woodland birds, bats & butterflies found here. Potential livestock - please keep dogs under close control / on a lead

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173 m

123 m

73 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Rolling walk

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

51 m

Drop

56 m

Highest

146 m

Lowest

82 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Easy first 2.0 km, no steep climbing, no steep descents.

Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.1 km, no steep climbing, no steep descents.

No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.

Main descent: km 0.9–2.0, from 140 m to 84 m.

How the 3.1 km splits

Flat

1.0 km

Climbing

0.9 km

Descending

1.2 km

Link it with other walks

Ranmore Common Walk, Polesden Lacey

Shares 1.4 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.8

8.03 km

Polesden Valley Walk, Polesden Lacey

Shares 0.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.1, 2.0…

3.45 km

Yew Tree Walk, Polesden Lacey

Shares 0.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.1, 2.0…

5.15 km

Prospects of Polesden (SCC)

Crosses at km 0.7, 0.9, 2.0

7.92 km

Waymarked Walk at Ranmore Common, North Downs West

Crosses at km 2.0

5.29 km

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