The Surrey Oaks ... near Newdigate

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OS Map : Landranger 187 · Map reference TQ 205 436

Description

The Surrey Oaks has several separate bar areas including a pool room and a restaurant-like area. Parts of the building date from 1570 and there has been a pub here since 1850 when a widow decided to raise extra income by starting a pub. Good idea!

The pub usually serves Harveys Sussex Bitter and a local beer like Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale as well as three guest beers. The pub has won numerous awards from the local CAMRA group including the 2006 Pub of The Year.There is a beer festival on May (Whitsun) and August bank holiday weekends.

The pub has a boules pitch and an unusual pub sign with different pictures on each side. There is a large garden on one side of the pub.

How to get there

By car
Newdigate can be reached from the A24 Beare Green turn-off between Horsham and Dorking. The pub is north of the village centre [on the road to Brockham]

Cycling
Take Rusper road past Littlehaven station. After the station, go straight ahead at the next roundabout to the A264 north bypass. Straight over the bypass roundabout [take care: can be busy]. Follow this road up a steep hill [it's all downhill on the way back] for 2.8 miles [4.5 km] to Rusper.

At the T-junction next to The Star, turn left, through Rusper past the Plough on the right. Continue on this road - do not turn left towards Capel - to Newdigate which is 3.1 miles [5 km] from Rusper. Cycle past the Six Bells and continue through Newdigate village towards Brockham. The pub is on the left approximately 1 mile [1.6 km] after Newdigate.

Suggested cycling routes from here

Come out of the pub, turn left and cycle north along country lanes towards the village green at Brockham.

or cycle back towards Rusper in a circular route via Charlwood.