Length:
19.5 km (12.1 mi)
Ascent/Descent:
534/522m
Net
Walking Time: ca. 5 hours
Toughness:
6 out of 10
Take
the 09.37 Dover Priory train from St. Pancras I’nal (09.44
Stratford I’nal), change at Ashford (10.14/10.25) onto the Eastbourne
service, arriving Winchelsea at 10.50.
Return
trains:
xx.19 (London Bridge, but veeery slow), xx.26 (St. Pancras via
Ashford), xx.30 & xx.50 (both Victoria via 7oaks and
Orpington). Buy a Hastings Return (incl. High Speed Surcharge).
A gentle start through the marshes along the 1066 Country-Path and two pubs to
choose from. After lunch, a great coastal cliff-walk with 4 steep climbs before
fish and chips on Hastings seafront and the finish through the Old Town up to
the station.
Longer walk: get off
a stop earlier and walk from Rye (covered in the directions pdf).
For walk directions, a map, a height profile, gpx/kml files, and photos click here.
Lunch:
The Queen’s Head in Icklesham
(4.7 km/2.9 mi, food from 12.00) or The
Royal Oak in Pett (8.0 km/5.0 mi, food to 17.00).
Tea:
Plenty options in Hastings. See the webpage or the pdf for details. T=1.25
2 comments:
What's the likelihood of any tea places in Hastings being open on New Year's Day? Not the busiest time of year for fish and chips shops I imagine, and there won't be any freshly caught fish...
n=9 walkers off the train , incl. 1 first-timer, plus 1 other man dressed for walking, who turned out to be a trainspotter. There was some standing water in the marshes, and then later plenty of mud on the coastal path (clearly well-used just now), but none of that was too difficult to negotiate.
We arrived at The Royal Oak 5 minutes after my booking, and 4 of us had a sit-down lunch, 4 others had sit-down drinks followed by sandwiches outside, 1 marched on without stopping. We caught up with the marcher somewhere between the glens in the firehills and arrived in Hastings more-or-less together. The first-timer peeled off to explore the Old Town (and very busy it was), the rest arrived at the station from 16.05 onwards, which was perfect timing as trains to all three SWC-destinations were due pretty quickly. 1 left for London Bridge, 1 for Victoria, the rest to Ashford for Stratford (4) and St Pancras (2).
Worthy of note is that the landslipped and closed path in Ecclesborne Glen is neither landslipped nor closed anymore: the Council has repaired any damages, removed fallen trees and put in a well-engineered stepped path all the way up.
w=sunny-to-lunch-then-overcast-with-some-sun
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