Dog walking in RH5 (North Holmwood & Stonebridge) — nobody's claimed it yet.

The doors. Down the lanes it's farmhouses, cottages and the odd barn conversion — collies with jobs, spaniels without one, and acreage that never tired a dog on its own. The diary out here gets drawn on a map before it's drawn in hours — village dogs grouped into shared walks, lane dogs strung between them, and suddenly the mileage works. Puppies follow moving vans as surely as spring follows winter, and this patch moves roughly 204 households in a normal year.

The parking. Nobody out here has ever paid to park — the question is never the kerb, it's the miles between gates. Long drives mean proper handovers — a minute with the owner, a note about the gate code — and a client relationship city rounds never build. There's a Beare Green on this patch's map — a name with green in its bones — and a walker's first week here is spent learning how much of it survives, where the gates are and when the mud takes over.

The round. The round in RH5 works around North Holmwood, Stonebridge, Beare Green, Newdigate and Capel. Around 6,685 households live here, and the ones who take a dog walker keep them — five days a week, term time and holidays, years on end. That's not a lead list — that's a round, built once and kept.