Ready for a Challenge? Why not find and cycle along all of the Woking ‘Planet Trails‘ this year? Not only will you get to visit areas of the town that you might never have seen before, but it will get you out and about in the fresh air, enjoying some exercise and maybe make new friends along the way. Download our ‘Planet Trails’ checklist and break it into chunks and shake it up this year.

The trails are called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars (Deimos, Phobos), Jupiter (Europa, Ganymede), Saturn (Hyperion, Pandora, Rhea, Titan), Neptune (Triton), Pluto, (Ceres, Ariel, Oberon).

Woking was granted Cycling Town status in 2009 and received funding and support to build a cycling network with the goal of increasing the use of bicycles in the borough. A joint venture between Woking Borough Council and Surrey County Council resulted in ‘Cycle Woking’ being created with £1.82M of funding. Cycle Woking was in existence from 2008 to 2011 when project funding ceased.

The result of this collaboration was the formation of a collection of designated cycle routes in the Woking area, called the ‘Planet Trails’. These trails were named after the planets in the solar system, along with their moons and are marked with coloured signposts along key routes in and out of Woking.

Old Woking, Pyrford, Byfleet

Egley Rd, Worplesdon, Guildford, Mayford

Guildford, Westfireld, Woking FC, Woking College, Old Woking, St John the Baptist School, Woking Park, Pyford Common, Maybury, Woking Station, Six Crossroads, Anthonys, Chertsey & St Peter’s Hospital

Old Woking Road to Balmoral Drive

St John the Baptist School, Woking Park, Woking College

Six Crossroads, Brook House

West Byfleet Railway Station, Woodham

Woking Station, Maybury, Sheerwater, Bishop David Brown School, West Byfleet Station, Pyrford Common, Woodham, Woodham Lane, Six Crossroads

Chobham, Horsell Common, Woking High School, Horsell

Brewery Road

Sythwood to Morton Road, Goldsworth Park

This route includes Pirbright, Brookwood Station, Brookwood Crossroads, Sainsbury’s Supermarket, Hermitage Road Shops, Winston Churchill School, Woking Station, Parkview, New Haw

St John’s Road to Bampton Way, Goldsworth Park

Brookwood Country Park

Hermitage Road to Bagshot Road, Knaphill

Redding Way to High Street, Knaphill

Hermitage Woods Crescent to Hermitage Road, St John’s

Goldsworth School, Goldsworth Park, Lake View, Horsell Birch

Goldsworth Park Lake to Parley Drive, Arthur’s Bridge to Goldsworth Road

Bisley, Knaphill, Winston Churchill School, St John’s, Wych Hill, Goldsworth School