It isn't so far from Clandon Park to Hatchlands Park. It takes about a hour on foot. Nice walking via Clandon Wood and village East Clandon. Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens. There it is place foe everybody who loves nature. The house is home to the Cobbe Collection; with forty two historic keyboard instruments it is the world's largest group of its kind. It is so shame I couldn't take photos inside. I wasn't happy with that. I love to share what I met.
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| The word Clandon (first recorded as Clanedune) goes back to Anglo-Saxon times, meaning "clean down" (open downland) from the North Downs hills that rise to the south of the village. People settled here due to the availability of water that emerged where the high chalk downs meet the lower lying clay to the north |
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| East Clandon has this church dedicated to St Thomas a Becket mostly dating to the 12th and 13th centuries |
Clandon Wood is an award-winning natural woodland and meadow burial
reserve in the Surrey Hills – a calm and sustainable alternative to
conventional cemeteries.
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| two donkeys, Callum and Morris |
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