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Postby David Lombari » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:40 pm

It is a batch, lovely view from the top though!
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Postby Andrew G » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:51 pm

My Dad found this well named Pains [url=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Pains+Hill,+Oxted,+RH8,+United+Kingdom&sll=54.162434,-3.647461&sspn=11.876772,28.168945&ie=UTF8&cd=1&mpnum=0&ll=51.247975,0.021071&spn=0.012384,0.027509&z=15&om=1]Hill[/url] which he said is a, well a pain.

I have a soft spot for White Hill, which is best approached by going along Pilgrim's Way and doing the first bit of Titsey first so you don't have to hammer on the brakes and turn sharp left in to it.

Not a tough one but a favourite is Botley Hill and its three steps. On a clear day the view when you're on the second step is superb.
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Postby mrP(Boonen)VT » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:12 am

[url]http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Pains+Hill,+Oxted,+RH8,+United+Kingdom&sll=54.162434,-3.647461&sspn=11.876772,28.168945&ie=UTF8&cd=1&mpnum=0&ll=51.247975,0.021071&spn=0.012384,0.027509&z=15&om=1[/url]

This is a tough one, as is Gangers that climbs the same ridge, but I kind of like it as the views are amazing as you walk up it :oops:
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Postby Andy » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:24 am

Coming back up from the Pilgrims Lane on Clark's Lane is a nice little tester, goes on for a bit...
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Postby Gavin » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:48 pm

We went to look at houses on saturday and one of them was at the bottom of succombe hill (25%).

Well it got my vote !
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Postby Andrew G » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:52 pm

Did Toys, Star, Cudham, and Berry hills today. none of them are my favourite 8) .
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Postby adrian » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:14 am

[quote] Did Toys, Star, Cudham, and Berry hills today. none of them are my favourite 8) .

A fine ride it was, too, preceded in my case by Tulse, Knights, Beulah and Sanderstead. Then over to my mum's in Epsom Downs, so up over Riddlesdown and then the long drag from Purley to Banstead. Arrived dripping sun block and generally in such a filthy state that I wasn't allowed in the house - was put straight out into the garden like a dog :?

Excellent dash from there home to Brixton - quiet roads (untl Streatham, of course) downhill and downwind almost all the way - beat my previous PB of 40 minutes, which I'd achieved in a car :)

80 hilly miles all told. Lovely
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