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good pub

Great towpath

Great coffee ☕ stop

Sun Inn for lunch

great coffee and flapjacks!

Good coffee stop ,nice little village shop ,good outdoors sitting area ideal for cyclist

The historic, scenic and well-maintained Guildford Castle is well worth visiting during a hiking tour close to Guildford. Guildford Castle has a fascinating history. It is one of nine impressive castles that were built in a ring around London by William the Conqueror soon after the Norman invasion of England in 1066. The Castle has been used subsequently as a Royal Palace, a prison and as a private residence. Should you have time, you may wish to climb the Castle Great Tower via its spiral staircase. This will give a panoramic view of Guildford and of its beautiful surrounding countryside. It will also provide an appreciation of why the Castle’s location was geographically well-chosen. An additional highlight of visiting Guildford Castle is to see and to walk through the excellent year-round flower displays that occupy the Castle’s former moat.

The Wey and Arun Canal, finished in 1816, established a crucial link between the Wey Navigation near Guildford and the south coast via the River Arun. This canal played a pivotal role in the inland transportation network designed to ensure secure passage from London to Portsmouth, facilitating the transportation of goods to sustain the dockyards during the Napoleonic Wars. Despite its initial success in efficiently transporting a substantial volume of cargo, the advent of railways ultimately led to the formal closure of the canal in 1871.