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Bear right and cross the road following the bridleway. In about 30m ignore the right hand "permissive footpath" and continue up the bridleway to a waymark where you turn right to reach Stony Dene Bridge. Turn left after the bridge. A short detour to the viewpoint at Lovelace’s Gothic-style, brick and flint Horsley Towers is signposted to the right. Continue uphill, bear left and then right through the yew trees, past the Forestry Commission sign until you reach Crocknorth Farm.
Follow the bridleway right, cross the road and continue under three Lovelace bridges to reach a road junction. Honeysuckle Bottom is signed to your left.
Cross the road and take the bridleway opposite uphill to a three-way finger post. Follow the left-hand bridleway to the next finger post and go right. At the next junction, with no sign, head right downhill and right again at the next signpost following the yellow marker. This leads to Angel Clump, picnic tables, and Millennium Viewpoint. Go down the grassy slope, up the other side, left and emerge at St Mary’s Church.
The church is mostly 13th century with medieval wall paintings and is frequently open 10:00 to midday. Reputedly, Sir Walter Raleigh’s embalmed head is laid to rest in the side chapel. Cross the A246, through the gate to the footpath opposite. Continue along the right hand field edge with the 17th-century West Horsley Place, the home of Lady Raleigh in her declining years, to your right. At the second hedgerow, head left to a junction of paths. Bear right following the sign to emerge by The Barley Mow pub, built in the 1500s.
Turn right passing several medieval houses, under the railway bridge and bear right up Lollesworth Lane passing Lollesworth Farm with its half-timber, half-brick, part-18th-century buildings.
Cross the railway bridge ahead and bear left to the village hall and emerge by the parade of shops. Horsley station is to your left.
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