Access Guide
Summary
- View information about opening hours.
- Amenities in this area include: an adventure playground and parkland.
- Additional amenities in this area include: picnic areas, woodland, heathland and farmland.
- The most accessible entrance has step-free level access and a gate.
- This entrance is located to the west of the car park.
- There is not a member of staff available for help and assistance.
- The following are also available: seating, large print information, facilities for assistance dogs, a large map in the car park and an information board in the car park.
- This site is not part of the Sunflower Lanyard Scheme.
Admissions
- At this location the following are free to access for all visitors: all areas.
- Parking is free for all visitors.
Parking
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces and potholes.
- This is an open air car park with a loose chippings and compacted gravel surface.
- Parking is free for all users.
- Maps and information boards are available.
- There are no Blue Badge parking bays available.
- Obstacles from the car park include: uneven surfaces, loose chippings and a lack of pedestrian walkways to cross the car park.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There is not a designated drop-off point.
Public Transport
- There is not a bus stop within approximately 150m of the site.
- The nearest bus stop is on the A25 (Guildford Road), at the end of White Down Lane. Buses stop on both sides of the road and provide a direct service to Guildford, Dorking and Redhill.
- The nearest train station is Gomshall.
- Gomshall station is approximately 2 miles away. There is a direct bus service from here to the nearest bus stop.
- For the latest travel options and information you can plan your travel using Traveline (opens new tab).
Outdoor Spaces
- This information is for the access point located to the west of the car park.
- There is step-free level access into the area.
- The access points to the area are located to the north, south and west of the car park, as well as on public rights of way around the perimeter of the site.
- There is a gate at the surveyed access point which opens away from you (push).
- The gate is self-closing.
- The gate has a latch lock.
- The width of the gap is 110cm.
- The following outdoor facilities are available: a playground, a playground with play equipment, parkland, woodland, farmland and open countryside.
- The outdoor facilities also include: heathland.
- The outdoor spaces include the following surfaces: loose chippings, wood bark, grass, bonded gravel, compact earth, uncompacted earth and sand.
- Footpaths are available in some of the outdoor spaces.
- The majority of the paths are not wide enough for wheelchair users.
- There is no step-free level access around the area.
- There are slight ramps/slopes without handrails and steep ramps/slopes without handrails in the main areas.
- There are slight and steep slopes (without handrails) throughout the site.
- There are some bench seats situated along the paths for people to rest.
- The paths have gates and kissing gates which may create obstacles for some users.
- There are some standard gates with latch locks along the Abinger Roughs Nature Trail, to enter and exit the area occasionally grazed by livestock. There are several standard gates with latch locks along the Piney Copse Trail. There are some kissing gates with latch locks along some of the public footpaths as they enter and exit the site.
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Playground
View
- There is a route around the play equipment which is not firm and even, but is over 150cm wide.
- The play equipment is in easy reach for seated and standing users, and users of different heights.
- The following play experiences are available: climbing, balancing, crawling, viewing and social play.
Picnic Area (Natural Play Area)
- The following information describes the picnic area located next to the natural play area.
- There is step-free level access into the area.
- There are bench seats and picnic tables.
- No chairs have armrests on both sides.
- Adapted picnic tables are not available.
- The distance between the floor and the underside of the lowest picnic table is 62cm.
- The distance between the floor and the underside of the highest picnic table is 77cm.
- The following furniture is permanently fixed: all of the chairs and all of the tables.
- There is step-free level access around some of the area.
- The surface in the picnic area is not smooth and even.
- Where the flooring is not smooth or even, this is due to compacted earth and grass.
Picnic Area (Viewpoint)
- The following information describes the picnic area located to the north of the car park, at the viewpoint for the North Downs.
- Access into the area is via a steep ramp/slope.
- The slope is between 75cm and 150cm wide, with no handrails.
- There are bench seats and picnic tables.
- No chairs have armrests on both sides.
- Adapted picnic tables are not available.
- The standard height for the underside of picnic tables is 85cm.
- The following furniture is permanently fixed: all of the chairs and all of the tables.
- There is no step-free level access around the area.
- The surface in the picnic area is not smooth and even.
- Where the flooring is not smooth or even, this is due to compacted earth and grass.
Hikes and Trails (Abinger Roughs Nature Trail)
- The walk is approximately 2 miles.
- Start the walk by heading out of the car park, through the gap in the fence opposite the notice board. Look out for the green nature trail marker post. Walk past the natural play area and then follow the path as it bends round to the right and begins to descend. Continue to walk down the slope and down to a small copse at a low point reached over a trackway. Follow the left-hand path up the hill and then round to the left. You'll go through some holly and then come out into an open glade. Walk to the edge of the glade and a junction of paths. Take the second fork to the left along an undulating path. Follow the waymarkers down the slope and back into the woodland. You'll soon come to a large area of rhododendrons. Turn left and continue along the path, eventually leaving the woodland. As you walk out of the woodland you will see the Wilberforce memorial and also an old barn on your left hand side. From here, turn right up the hill to return to the car park.
- The walk is open 24 hours.
- None of the paths are lit at night.
- The route includes the following surfaces: loose chippings, grass, compacted gravel and mud.
- Some of the route contains steep gradients and very uneven surfaces.
- These are found in the following areas: all along the route.
- There are no alternative routes to avoid these areas.
- The route is clearly signposted.
- The route has information boards with large maps and online maps.
- Seating is available on the route.
- There are no toilet facilities along the route.
Hikes and Trails (Piney Copse Trail)
- The walk is approximately 0.8 miles.
- At the western end of the Roughs, you reach an open space. Go through the gate and along the track with a field to your right and woods to your left; the track falls slightly then swings hard right – here you leave the track and take the path through another gate that goes straight on across a field with a hedge to your left and a fence to your right. Head to the far end of the field and walk straight across Hackhurst Lane. Continue along the narrow path which leads past a cottage on your left and into Piney Copse. Follow the path through the copse, and you will shortly reach the end of the walk at Beggar's Lane. To return to Abinger Roughs, retrace your steps.
- The walk is open 24 hours.
- None of the paths are lit at night.
- The route includes the following surfaces: tarmac, loose chippings, grass, compacted gravel and mud.
- Some of the route contains steep gradients and very uneven surfaces.
- These are found in the following areas: all along the route.
- There are no alternative routes to avoid these areas.
- The route is clearly signposted.
- The route has online maps.
- Seating is available on the route.
- There are no toilet facilities along the route.
- There is an information board with a large map outlining the route of the trail in the car park, but not along the trail itself.