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It's all on trail forks. I'd be lost without that app
I'm the complete opposite. I live in Epsom and have been riding those trails since the early noughties, pre-Strava.
So I know my way around very well but I rarely study Strava to see what the trails were called that I've been riding since before they were given names or often new names from the names we referred to them.
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To be honest, I'm sort of the same, although it's only about 10 years of pootleing around that area for me.
Trail forks is just the best way to check out what you've been missing out on / hidden new spots. I'm not really into Strava as I rarely record anything.
I tend to pick a loop, then use trail forks to see if there is anything good I've missed in the past. The irrerverant trail names serving only as something easier than trying to explain where it is...the only thing trail forks is missing is an OS Map overlay (or similar) so you can find your way to some of the ones that just start in the middle of a wood. The map layers they have can make it hard to work out where some bits are without some local knowledge already.
The China pig trail off box hill was new to me. In the past I've just blatted straight down Juniper bottom on the bridleway, never realising there is an awesome swoopy single track about 300m to the right.
Scrabble
That is where it goes, but according to trail forks, flinty badman is further west and drops down towards Chapel Lane/ into the valley. That's still on the list, along with Golden Nugget, which is in between and finished half way along the Ranmore Common Road climb.
It's all on trail forks. I'd be lost without that app.