Grove Lane from The Mount

Image: © Marathon Taken: 30 Apr 2014

Grove Lane is a road which then becomes a bridleway. It connects Coulsdon to Oaks Park. It is a very old track and was well-established by the latter half of the 18th century. It was then that the Twelfth Earl of Derby, and his sporting guests at The Oaks, used Grove Lane to ride down to the cricket ground at the Red Lion at Coulsdon to take part in the matches there. Grove Lane is now followed by the London LOOP and where it becomes a bridleway provides magnificent views across London from Harrow-on-the-Hill and the Wembley Arch to The Shard and the City of London and further round to Canary Wharf. It has fine hedges and gives a glimpse of what much of Sutton must have been like in the 19th century. This is at the top of the hill out of Coulsdon by the appropriately-named Jack & Jill pub (seen here on the left). The road turns into the bridleway a little way ahead, downhill again - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3956661

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