please empty your brain below
Chipsted. One stop beyond London. Fifty years back in time; at least.
Developers, progress and time itself seem defied by the CRA and CVPS.

Rod | 27.04.25 - 8:27 a.m. | #

I've spent many a few lunchtimes in The White Hart the food there was rather good but that was years ago. Perhaps it still is.

Dave B | 27.04.25 - 9:05 a.m. | #

I can heartily recommend visiting Chiphouse Wood which is owned by the Woodland Trust and sandwiched between Outwood Lane and the railway. Small but unspoilt. The bluebells here are also worth seeing.

Keith the Kraut | 27.04.25 - 9:17 a.m. | #

So delighted you are exploring this lovely area just outside London.

The public footpath to the west of the station wouldn't be a problem if it were just that. You could simply close it and reroute it via the alternative of the station footbridge which is accessible to all. The problem is it is also a bridleway and the station footbridge has steps. I have never seen a horse using the bridleway despite making countless walks starting at, ending at or passing through Chipstead station. I can't remember ever seeing anyone using it other than myself which I did occasionally simply because I could.

I think you do the Chipstead Valley Preservation Society a huge disservice. There are numerous areas of open space and permitted paths looked after by the them that are not public spaces and they open up the whole area to walkers in the way the public footpaths don't. This is why I used to keep going back to this area and didn't get bored of it.

Pedantic of Purley | 27.04.25 - 9:20 a.m. | #

Well, in another exciting coincidence, I went through Chipstead on Friday, having picked up my new (to me) bike from Wallington, and decided to go the - very - long way back to Hackney via Box Hill and various other slightly random points South and East.

Was eventually forced onto the dreaded M25 near the other Chipstead in Kent.

CJS | 27.04.25 - 10:35 a.m. | #

Thank you DG. I once walked from Chipstead station to St Margaret's Church, along those narrow lanes where cars can appear suddenly. It was frightening.

Bob L-S | 27.04.25 - 11:56 a.m. | #

How cool is that Narnia Trail!!

Cornish Cockney | 27.04.25 - 12:35 p.m. | #

Chipstead FC & AFC Wimbledon were both in the Combined Counties League when the Dons began their journey up the non-league pyramid.

One of my favourite memories of that first season was serenading visiting supporters with a chorus of "In Your Chipstead Slums"

Darlo | 27.04.25 - 4:17 p.m. | #

The comment from CJS reminded me of many conversations at cross purposes with a former work colleague. To me, “bike” means bicycle, and I wondered how she managed to cover so much distance on hers (and how CJS managed to take theirs on the M25). To her (and to CJS), “bike” meant motorbike, and a bicycle (on the very rare occasions she mentioned one) was a pushbike.

Baldassaro | 27.04.25 - 4:56 p.m. | #

I too thought CJS was returning to Hackney via Box Hill on a bicycle, but when getting to the M25 bit I then assumed that this was by car (with the bicycle in the boot, perhaps). I wonder which of us (if either) is correct.

Stephen | 27.04.25 - 5:39 p.m. | #

My mother was a Chipsteadian from 1930 to 1955 when she married my Dad at St Margaret's in 1955 and moved to Purley.

There was a Prisoner of War Camp - Westonacres Camp - at Banstead Woods during the Second World War.

Robert | 27.04.25 - 6:13 p.m. | #

Occasionally at Banstead Woods you come across paths with bricks buried in it but rising to the surface which I have always presumed are the remnants of the PoW camp. This (and old abandoned vehicle tracks) are not uncommon in the surrounding areas and, I am told, are because of various wartime camps that were hidden around here.

Pedantic of Purley | 27.04.25 - 7:48 p.m. | #

How sad is it that I'm a child of the 1980's (born in '68) but it was only today that I noticed that this was a Madness-adjacent themed series? ONE STOP BEYOND! (cue saxophone)

steven crosby | 28.04.25 - 5:19 p.m. | #











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