Leith hill tower hike

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title: Leith Hill Tower hike
summary: A delightful Saturday walk out of London, from Ockley to Dorking.
type: GPX
emoji: 🥾
date: 2023-08-14T07:14:19+01:00
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{{< hike gpx="leith-hill-tower" length="15km" elevation="283m" time="3h43 + 45m lunch" >}}
On Saturday we went for day hike across [Surrey Hills](https://surreyhills.org/), from Ockley Station to Dorking, via the beautiful vistas of Leith Hill Tower. It was such a lovely hike!
Being just over an hour from Victoria Station in London made it easy to get to and back from within a day, and it gave us the opportunity to visit the highest point in South East England — all 304m of it 😂
{{< figure src="leith-hill-tower.webp" alt="Leith Hill Tower stretching up above the treeline on an overcast day." caption="Leith Hill Tower looks a lot more foreboding here than it should!" >}}
Surrey Hills is an [Area of outstanding Natural Beauty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_Outstanding_Natural_Beauty)—one of the nearest to London—and it's easy to see why. As the brief rainfall that welcomed us onto our hike faded away we came across Barn Cottage, with a helpful QR code carefully posted to a tree at its entrace. It pointed us to [a website](https://www.macspeedee.com/barncottage/) describing the history of this stunning Orné style "chocolate box" cottage, and the landscape before us.
{{< figure src="barn-cottage.webp" alt="The beautiful Barn Cottage, with its slanted roof nearly reaching the floor, black wooden walls, and pretty white windows and doors, all coated in greenery of many kinds." caption="I can imagine reading a book at the garden table here, and I can't stop imagining it." >}}
The hike was easy most of the way, with a half an hour of noticeable incline, and 15 more minutes right before the tower that definitely let us know we were travelling vertically. Nothing as severe as the 2,100m two-day hike {{< friend "chris" >}} was taking on at the same time near Vancouver, but still very enjoyable — and a wonderful view for lunch!
{{< figure src="tower-top.webp" alt="A selfie of JP and Yvette looking out across the UK's South East landscape from the top of a tower." caption="It was a beautiful view, even with the overcast greyness, and a lovely day to hike!" >}}
We finished off our hike in Dorking. Sadly [Denbies Vineyard](https://www.denbies.co.uk/) closes at 5pm, so we missed out on a tour, but we did briefly visit the sunny Star Inn for a refreshing half, and then the charming [The King's Arms](https://www.kingsarmsdorking.co.uk/) for a tasty bite and another celebratory tipple.
All in all, an extremely good day!
{{< figure src="finishing-half.webp" alt="The three of us clink our half-pint glasses in celebration." >}}

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name: Chris Hastings-Bryan
name: Chris
site: https://chris.hastings-spital.co.uk
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{{- $fname := (.Get "gpx") -}}
{{- $gpx := index site.Data.hikes $fname -}}
{{- $download := readFile (printf "/data/hikes/%s.xml" $fname) | resources.FromString (printf "%s/%s.gpx" (.Page.Path | path.Dir ) $fname) -}}
{{- $restThreshold := mul 5 60 -}}
{{- $timeWalk := 0 -}}
{{- $timeRest := 0 -}}
{{- $last := dict -}}
{{- range $gpx.trk.trkseg -}}
{{- range .trkpt -}}
{{- if ne $last dict }}
{{- $dTime := sub (time .time).Unix (time $last.time).Unix }}
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{{- else -}}
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{{- end -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- $last = . -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- $timeWalk = mul 60 (math.Ceil (div $timeWalk 60)) -}}
{{- $timeRest = mul 60 (math.Ceil (div $timeRest 60)) -}}
{{- $timeWalk := strings.TrimRight "0s" (printf "%s" ($timeWalk | duration "second")) }}
{{- $timeRest := strings.TrimRight "0s" (printf "%s" ($timeRest | duration "second")) }}
{{- $distance := div (math.Ceil (div (float $gpx.metadata.extensions.distance) 100)) 10}}
<div class="hike-info">
<span class="name">{{ $gpx.metadata.name }}</span>
<div class="stats">
<span class="distance">→ {{ $distance }}km</span>
<span class="total-ascent">↑{{ $gpx.metadata.extensions.totalAscent }}m</span>
<span class="total-descent">↓{{ $gpx.metadata.extensions.totalDescent }}m </span>
<span class="duration">@ {{ $timeWalk }}</span>
</div>
<details>
<summary>Waypoints</summary>
{{- range $gpx.wpt -}}
<div class="waypoint">
<details>
<summary>{{ .name }}</summary>
<p class="description">{{ .desc }}</p>
</details>
</div>
{{- end -}}
<small><a href="{{ $download.RelPermalink }}">Download gpx</a></small>
</details>
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}
.h-card:not(.no-emoji) .u-url::before {
content: "📇";
content: "🧑";
margin-right: 3px;
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.hike-info {
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content: '📍';
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display:inline-block;
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