Eynsford Circular with options to finish in Shoreham or Otford
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Length: Main walk: 21.5km (13.4 miles), finishing in Shoreham:16km (9.9 miles)
Main walk with shorter afternoon: 18.75km (11.7 miles)
Toughness: 7 out of 10 (3-5 for the shorter options).
This walk starts along a country lane through the secluded Austin Lodge valley, climbing to the isolated settlement of Romney Street. It continues on an undulating section to a ridge with fine views of the Darent valley, from where you descend into Otford for lunch.
There are two possible routes back to Eynsford. One offers the opportunity to end the walk in Shoreham. See the walk instructions for details.
Trains: Catch the 10:12 Sevenoaks train from London Blackfriars arriving Eynsford 11.05).
Or, the 10:25
Ramsgate train from London Victoria changing at Swanley to connect with the
Blackfriars train at 11am.
Return from Eynsford: xx:11, xx:41 to Blackfriars
xx.05, xx:35, to London Bridge changing at Bickley for Victoria.
Lunch: On the Main Walk
the suggested place to stop for lunch is Otford, after 8½ km. The route
joins the High Street opposite The Bull
(01959-523198); the alternative is a traditional village pub overlooking the
pond, The Woodman (01959-522195).
Tea: The Riverside Tea Room in Eynsford is the suggested tea stop - (01322-861551; open to 4pm). There are pub options also mentioned in the directions.
For directions, map and GPS click here
7 comments:
3 off the posted train and one driver at Eynsford, 1 on a later train caught up just before Otford, so n=5 altogether enjoyed a w=dry-day-with-atmospheric-mist in the morning. The former golf course early on in the walk has completely rewilded itself and is a mass of tall grass, trees and shrubs. Several types of orchid were seen as well as daisies, buttercups and umpteen other wild flowers. There were several stretches of path through tunnels of greenery. Despite recent heavy rainfall, paths were dry. Long grasses bordering the paths wet our legs and feet but they soon dried out. Three stopped to eat sandwiches on a hill overlooking Otford, one carried on to catch a train back to London from Otford and the late starter went to the Bull for lunch which she enjoyed before continuing with the sandwichers on the second half of the walk. All four took the high route towards Eynsford with the late starter deciding to branch off to Shoreham to catch a train from there. Three carried on to Eynsford taking only a minor shortcut to the station at the end. Two caught the 17.07 Blackfriars train changing at Bromley South for a fast train to Victoria. A lovely green walk and a great time of year to do it.
I loved this walk. It was beautiful. I did the shorter afternoon walk. The only issue is that there are squiggles where the numbers for the paragraphs should be in the directions for the alternative walks, so it took me a little while to work out, what section I should be looking at.
@Unknown (15 June): I'm not sure what you mean by "squiggles". My walk documents need to run some javascript when they load to sort out paragraph numbering, cross-references, etc. If you see directions like "go to [?]", or "..." where you expect to see text, you might have a security setting which is stopping this code from running.
I suspect it's those cheeky little silcrows e.g.
If you are doing the longer afternoon route, go to §J.
Complete the directions at §O.
Yes the cheeky little silcrows is what I meant!
Good detective work, Mike A! Yes, I like these cheeky little typograhical symbols. I really should use both silcrows and pilcrows (§=section mark, ¶=paragraph mark)...
Oh I see! If like me you struggle with this kind of thing, too bad!! Thank you for being kind, respectful and so very clear about that.
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