Chertsey Hookups: Chertsey Women Want to Meet

Beat the curfew: hookups in Chertsey

Chertsey still rings a curfew bell. From Michaelmas to Lady Day, so late September to late March, it sounds at 8pm on weekday evenings, and it comes with a romantic local legend, remembered by a statue and by the bell itself down at Chertsey Bridge. Nobody is checking if you're home by then.

The town grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666, later won a royal charter for its market, and has had a bridge over the Thames since the early 1400s; the stone one there now went up in the 18th century. Today about 16,000 people live here, in the Borough of Runnymede, 18 miles south-west of central London. South Western Railway runs trains to Waterloo and junction 11 of the M25 is on hand, so it's as easy for a match to come to you as it is for you to go to them.

First meetings by the bridge, the Meads or the hill

Somewhere easy to find, then somewhere to walk:

Chertsey Bridge

The 18th-century stone bridge, with the curfew bell and its statue beside it. Nobody can claim they couldn't find it.

The Thames Path

The National Trail passes through on its way along the river, so a walk can last exactly as long as the conversation does.

Chertsey Meads

Open green space for a daytime meeting with no pressure attached.

St Ann's Hill

A round knoll topped by the remains of a prehistoric hill fort. Save it for when you already know you get on.

If neither of you fancies meeting in Chertsey itself, Weybridge is under two and a half miles away, Staines three and Walton-on-Thames about four. The locations page has every other town around here with a page of its own.