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Guided Walks Around Dorking

Running from April – October, the Dorking walks team can offer a variety of walks taking in the different aspects of the town’s history and heritage. Please visit our booking page for more details.

Explore the history of Dorking through its urban landscape, following its development from settlement at the foot of the chalk downs to flourishing market town and turnpike staging post, taking in the old foundry (now the Museum), the only known surviving house of a pilgrim father, the Cotmandene, site of a historic early depiction of the game of cricket, and the coaching inn that features in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers.

Walking Tour of Betchworth Castle

Join a Dorking Museum guide for a 90 minute walk around the castle. Well behaved dogs on leads are very welcome on these walks.

Tickets are £4.00.

These walks run from April – October. Please see our booking page for dates and to book your tickets.

The Deepdene Trail

We offer guided walks around the Deepdene Trail during the year. Tickets are £5.00 (under 12’s free) and can be booked below. Well behaved dogs on leads are very welcome on these walks. Hot drinks and snacks are available from Dorking Golf Club at the end of the walk. Please note – no physical tickets will be issued, please meet your guide at Dorking Golf Club 10 minutes before the start of your tour which will begin promptly. Please wear sensible footwear. The walk is not weather dependant, so do wear appropriate clothes. The walk takes around 90 minutes, and is led at a comfortable pace, to accommodate all abilities. We recommend allowing extra time just in case the tour takes longer.

Tickets are £5.00.

These walks run from April – October. Please see our booking page for dates and to book your tickets.

Hidden Dorking

See Dorking as you have never seen it before on this walk. You walk past hidden treasures every day – we will point them all out to you.

The walk will leave from Dorking Museum and will last 90 minutes. Tickets priced at £4.00.

These walks run from April – October. Please see our booking page for dates and to book your tickets.

Family Treasure Hunt

Be history detectives. How can you tell parts of Dorking are old? Why not try a family tour of Dorking? Find out about Dorking’s past as the children look for clues of the past by finding features that match the photos on the quiz sheet. Collect a prize at the end of the walk.

The tour can last an hour up to 90 minutes, however, please feel free to leave when your children are tired. Children must be accompanied. Tickets cost £4.00 per family. Tours leave from the Museum.

These walks run from April – October. Please see our booking page for dates and to book your tickets.

Pub Walks

Join us in a stroll through Dorking’s past as told around its many hostelries pubs and inns, both past and present. Hear about how the local residents behaved – and misbehaved – through the words of a heroic policeman of Victorian times. The tour will leave Dorking Museum and lasts an hour and a half. Tickets cost £4.00, and can be booked by clicking on the link below.

These walks run from April – October. Please see our booking page for dates and to book your tickets.

Blue Plaques and Statues

Come and find out about some of the famous people who lived in, or visited Dorking through our blue plaques and statues.

Find out more about the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, the builder Thomas Cubitt, the racing driver Rob Walker, the actor Laurence Olivier, the shoemaker William Mullins, the Methodist preacher John Wesley, the engineer Beatrice Shilling and Suffragettes Helen Gordon Liddle and Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Marsh.

The walk will leave from the Cubitt statue across the road from the Dorking Halls. and will last 90 minutes. Tickets priced at £4.00.

These walks run from April – October. Please see our booking page for dates and to book your tickets.

Walks can be tailored for groups including, our Pubs Walk, the Deepdene Walk and our Words and Music walk. For details of group bookings, please have a look here.

We also have a number of self guided walks around Dorking and the surrounding areas.

Our Heritage Open Days walks are handled by the Dorking Halls, and go on sale in May / June.

“Thank you and your team for giving us such interested guided walks on Saturday morning. It was refreshing to be lead with so much enthusiasm. Your love of Dorking was clear to see. We can now all answer the question ‘ Why Dorking?’ “

Keith Anthony

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