Difficulty 4 / 10. .
The walk covers a fairly remote area of the borders of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. It passes 3 historic manor houses, one dating from the 13th C, and climbs to an iron-age hillfort.
Trains From London Bridge, take the 9:58 East Grinstead train (E Croydon 10:15) to Oxted and change there onto the Uckfield train (arr 1039 plat 2 ,dep 1042 plat 3) arriving Hever at 1054.
Return from Dormans to London Bridge at xx:16 and xx:46
Buy a day return to Hever and a single from Dormans to Hurst Green.
Lunch the Fountain, Cowden 01342 850528.. An 18th C community pub owned by Harvey's.
Tea The Old House at Home pub on the western side of Dormansland just off the route. It is 0.8km (0.5m) from the station.
Directions here The comments page has some clarifications.
It’s possible to shorten the walk by starting at Cowden station, reducing the distance by 1.9 miles. (Directions included). It's one stop further on the Uckfield train. (If doing so, starting an hour later would give you more chance of joining the others).
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The #warm-and-sunny bank holiday weeekend weather only tempted #7 walkers to do this pleasant stroll through countryside and bluebell woods straddling the Kent and Sussex borders. Trains were running punctually, though Southern should have thought to put on more than an hourly two-carriage train from Oxted to Hever. It took not much more than an hour to cover the six kilometres to the lunchtime pub in Cowden where there was plenty of room and a friendly welcome. However, we'd all brought sandwiches, which we consumed in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene. Two of our number left us before the end. One had parked at Hever station and had decided understandably to do a circular walk. We stopped for a refreshing teatime drink at the Royal Oak in Dormansland, about 12 minutes walk from the station and most of us caught the much more comfortable eight-carriage train back to London at 4.46 from Dormans.
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