Length: 16km (10m)
Toughness: 2 / 10
Transport: Take the 10:07 train from London Bridge, arriving in Hever at 10:49. Return trains from Tonbridge at xx:19 and xx:49. Buy a day return to Leigh, a station accessible via Tonbridge and Edenbridge. Hever is one stop beyond Edenbridge Town.
A pleasant walk through familiar countryside in the Medway valley, passing Hever castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, the stately Penshurst Palace in the charming village of Penshurst before approaching Tonbridge along the mighty river Medway. There will be mud.
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n=19 assembled at the station under w=grey_skies only to immediately split into one group that followed the official route back over the railway tracks and another to pick up the official route further down the path on a more direct approach. All came together at Penshurst where 8 had lunch in the pub/restaurant and the rest had a picnic. After lunch one embarked on the shortcut to Leigh only to be caught out by the treacherous rail replacement service and ended up in Edenbridge. I, myself, entered into an attempt to break the high-speed walking record with another walker and we got separated from the rest of the group. The cafe 65mm coffee by the river informed us that they could only serve takeaways 20mins before closing time (or they just wanted to go home ...) so we went to the lovely Nancy's tearoom. The owner allows his guests to stay way past closing time (16:00) to finish their tea.
Nice day with surprisingly dry ground.
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