As it was a nice day I jumped in the car and drove to Okewood Hill, just off of the Roman Stane Street, in the far southern reaches of the parish of Abinger in Surrey.

Having parked the car next to the cricket ground, opposite the Punchbowl pub, I immediately headed westwards towards the small hamlet of Walliswood, passing the impressive Oakwood Manor, a large 16th century house. As usual, the purpose of my walk was to photograph the old buildings of the area and after turning north at the T junction, the hamlet is home to a handful including the 19th century village water pump and the 16th century 'Little Meadows'.

Continuing northwards, I turned right into Standon Lane and then turned back southwards along a footpath outside the southern entrance to Gatton Manor. Having negotiated some steep paths around the gills in Kiln Copse I arrived at exactly 800 year old Church of St John the Baptist. Originally on a main thoroughfare, the church is now in the middle of the woods, accessed only by ancient rights of way and a semi made up driveway.

From the church I turned north easterly along Church Lane past a field of alpaca's and crossed the A29 into Ockley Parish and onto the bridleway known as Waleys Lane which zig-zags it's way eastwards across the countryside past a couple of remote old farmhouses to Weare Street, which I crossed to visit Holbrook Farm.

After making my way back to Weare Street and heading south for a few hundred yards, I detoured into the woods to visit an abandoned Medieval moated site dating back to approx. 1300. Like that which I visited near Kingsfold a couple of weeks ago this had a complete, but dry, moat and no evidence of the building that formerly stood on the island, but unlike that at Kingsfold, it does have scheduled monument status.

Back to the road, and my original plan was to head south at Paynes Green, but the skies had started to cloud up, so I decided to continue straight on and return to the car, pausing to have a look at the dilapidated late 16th century Boswell Farm on Ruckmans Lane in the far south west of Ockley Parish. There was more scaffolding holding up the inside than the outside so I elected not to enter the building which, from what I could see through missing doors and windows, could be described as being in need of modernisation, which is no bad thing as it's rare to see such a building which has been internally unaltered for 150 years! I also stopped briefly to look down a tree lined section of Stane Street, complete with drainage ditch. whether this is the original ditch, or even in the place of the original, I don't know, but I shall be travelling that particular bridleway when I return to complete the walk.