After the suggested lunch stop in the hamlet of Eridge Green the route passes Eridge Rocks, the first of three impressive sandstone outcrops. The walk continues along the southern edge of Broadwater Warren nature reserve (free entry), once a gloomy conifer forest which is gradually being restored to heathland and woodland by the RSPB.
At the point where you leave Broadwater Warren there are three onward routes: the full route via Harrison's Rocks and Groombridge, a short cut omitting the loop around the rocks, or the shorter afternoon which bypasses both the rocks and Groombridge. "
Trains: 9.45 train from Charing Cross (9.48 Waterloo East, 9.54 London Bridge) to Tunbridge Wells, arriving 10.40. Return trains 1634, 1705, 1738, xx09, xx38.
Lunch: The suggested lunch stop (after 10 km from Tunbridge Wells) is the Nevill Crest and Gun (01892-864209) in Eridge Green, which has a large garden and serves good food all day from noon.
Tea: As well as the Pantiles, there is Juliets at #54 the High Street (5pm) on the way to the station. For a pub, there is the Opera House, a splendid building which more recently was a cinema and bingo hall and is now a JD Wetherspoon pub; it is a five-minute walk up Mount Pleasant Road from the station.
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Nine at the station with two catching up at lunch (including a first timer) made for n=11 on a lovely w=sunny day. There was a longish stretch of muddy path before lunch, but otherwise not too bad. Five in the pub for lunch, which was quite quick. We almost all regrouped, but 2 had gone ahead. At the decision point, 5 of us went for 12 miles, some the, the slightly shorter option, and 2 unknown. For us 5, a herd of wild deer, two train siteings and time for a quick drink before the 1738 back.
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