Horsham Road (B2126)
The B2126 runs from the A25 at Abinger Hammer to the A24 west of Capel, and the six miles that matter are the middle: up through Sutton Abinger onto the Greensand Ridge, through Holmbury St Mary, then down off the ridge through Forest Green to Ockley on Stane Street. Holmbury St Mary is a village built in a sandstone ravine inside the Hurtwood, Surrey's largest area of common land. The corner density is high for the region and the surface varied, so it rewards reading the camber as the road drops from sandy heath to the lower ground below Leith Hill.
Holmbury St Mary has had a youth hostel since 1935 and sits in the middle of the Hurtwood's path network, so the village stretch is where walkers are on the road at weekends; the hammer clock at Abinger Hammer marks the northern end, and its motto, 'By me you know how fast to go', is not bad advice for the rest.