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Fairoak Lane, LEATHERHEAD, KT22 0TQ

Entrance to Broomfield Ride off Fair Oak Lane: this entrance is closed by electronically operated gates to prevent unauthorised through traffic.

Heath Road, looking uphill towards the junction with Queen's Drive. The road is one-way, with a cycle track (also one-way) marked down the near side.

Junction of Heath Road and Image Queen's Drive is closed off with these gates, which are kept locked: access is via the other end, at the junction with Warren Lane. Unusually for a country lane, Heath Road is a one-way street (as far as the railway bridge).

Heath Road descends from Warren Lane parallel to the New Guildford line, before turning a right-angle to pass under the railway and out to Fairoak Lane. Heath Road is one-way beyond the bridge. The bridge has been recently replaced: compare with Image, which shows that the upper part of the abutments has been rebuilt.

Looking north-west.

Heath Road is a one-way street providing a short-cut between Warren Lane and Fairoak Lane across Oxshott Heath. Before the railway was built, the road went straight ahead down to Fairoak Lane (then Steer Lane), where the bend to the left can now be seen to take the road under the railway line: Image At this time, Heath Road was no more than a sandy track across the heath. In the foreground, a horse ride crosses from Warren Lane to run along the edge of Oxshott Heath, and along an alleyway onto Queen's Drive.

Horse ride along the edge of Oxshott Heath, at the back of properties along Queen's Drive. Ahead, the horse ride crosses Heath Road, to climb to Warren Lane. This horse ride is rarely used on horseback, because of the crossing of the main road, but has recently been cleared in the vicinity of Heath Road. To the left is a wall marking the boundary of Crown Acre (the last dwelling at the southern end of Queen's Drive).

One of a handful of pockets of heathland surviving on Oxshott Heath. This one is surprisingly little visited, located on the east side of Warren Lane, and therefore away from visitors using car parks on the other side of the main road. This was once the route of a well-worn footpath north across the heath towards what is now Stokesheath Road, but there is now only a little used permissive bridleway down the valley to the right to Heath Road.

Houses on the former Crown Estate at Oxshott apparently demand special security measures, such as this one above the fence at the back of the property (Beaulieu) along the edge of Oxshott Heath.