Wisley Lane status and route to Byfleet

I went across the new Wisley cycle route again on Sunday primarily to see whether the cycle path on Wisley Lane had been restored after the addition of the new airfield site roundabout.

It has, though there was a short section with a temporary (tarmac) surface but rideable all the way. I also used the signed route at the Ockham roundabout from Ripley to Wisley going under the bridge counter to traffic. This is fine, with cycle/pedestrian lights crossing the Portsmouth Road out of Ripley, but there are no such lights across Ockham Lane North and it's tricky to see when any stationary car might be about to get a green light.

I found I had a bit of spare time (but sadly not enough to do a full recce) so decided to explore towards the northern Clearmount bridge over the M25 which supposedly links to Byfleet though I had been told that there was a locked gate.

I followed the signs from the Green Bridge towards Pond Farm / Birch Scout camp. As you come across the Green Bridge from Ockham Bites this leads away to the right (but don't take the next right back towards the A3), The tarmac soon ends but the track is wide and hard gravelled. At the scout camp it turns right (with FP sign) onto an old concrete road leading in 100m or so to the new ramp onto Clearmount Bridge. 

I went over and turned left, signposted to Byfleet as a bridleway. The track continues past some iron posts 200m after the bridge ramp (ignore the path to the left) and soon comes to a signpost by some fencing. This is where the bridleway leads slightly left for about 700m to Mill Lane and Byfleet. The presence of two cyclists coming the other way, one on a gravel bike with slick tyres suggested that I could easily have made it on my Tricross. 

A conversation with a walker and mountain biker confirmed that it was straightforward in dry weather. 

Unfortunately I needed to get home so turned back at this point to Ockham Bites. My further exploration will have to wait until I return from holiday but if any of you try this please let me know.

 The route in ridewithgps

It is best mapped by OSM Cycle.