"The Pilgirms' Way passes through the Park, marked by aline of ash trees ... That part of it which came through the Park, the line of which can still be distinctly traced, was stopped up after the widening and improving of the main turnpike road from Limpsfield to Croydon in 1768 ... There is no doubt that this is a very ancient track, made before the coming of the Romans, but used by them, as would appear from the numerous traces of villas and other Roman remains near its course."

The park has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century. Many of the clumps of trees have fallen due to successive storms and Dutch elm disease, but these have been replaced with disease resistant elms imported from Holland and beech, lime and
horse chestnut. A thin band of discoloured grass, visible on the driest days, marks the original path of the old Pilgrims’ Way.