Local Trails

Do you like trail running?

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Are you wondering where in our area you can find awesome trails of varying difficulty from the flat easy to run trails of Claygate Common to the more difficult undulating trails of the North Downs Way?

Well look no further, this page will hopefully give a good insight into where you can go for an easy 10k trail run to a more challenging distance run almost entirely on trails. Some of these you can start pretty much from your own door step, others may include a bit of planning and some public transport at either end of your run. However whichever you choose we feel sure you’ll enjoy what our local area has to offer with some absolute jewels that you probably never realised even existed.

With a bit planning you can create some great local trail runs, some of which you might prefer to only run in the summer months unless you like lots of mud and don’t care about getting soaking wet and muddy. Lets face it mud and puddles aren’t for everyone but if you just embrace the conditions a trail run can be great fun regardless of the conditions underfoot. Remember there is a big difference between Cross Country Racing and Trail Running even if the terrain is the same. In a Cross Country race you are going hell for leather and it hurts, on a trail run you can take your time, enjoy nature and explore side trails and discover hidden gems that would have otherwise just run past without even knowing they are there.

Princes Covert

For example, did you know that within Princes Covert in Oxshott which is named after Prince (later King) Leopold I of Belgium, who lived at Claremont Park in Esher there is, hidden away within one of the narrow side trails a well house called “Jessops Well” a mineral spa converted to a very small spa house that was built in the mid 18th century.

Stokes Field

In the middle of Long Ditton lies a local nature reserve “Stokes Field” which although quite small has enough trails through the woods and far side towards the back of Hill Park Rose Nurseries that you can easily run a full 5km route and hardly cross the same trails twice. You have to be quite inventive to do so but with lots of little side trails to explore and if not overgrown there are little tails through the old rose gardens where the growers would cut wood to graft onto the many specifies of rose that once grew in the main fields. There is also an awesome view of Heathrow from the top of One Tree Hill.