This walk is a circular option of the Snodland to Sole Street walk. It heads east from Sole Street to Lower Luddesdown before continuing south to pick up the Weald Way, then link up with the Snodland to Sole Street walk directions 1km from Harvel. It passes through farmland, vineyards and woods.
Length : 13.5 km (8.4 miles)
Difficulty: 5 out of 10.
Train: London Victoria 10.12 (Denmark Hill 10.22) arrive Sole Street 11.03
Return trains hourly at xx.28
Lunch: The Harvel House farm shop and cafe has a range of hot and cold snacks as well as cakes and hot drinks. It is open until 4pm.
For a picnic, there are benches around the green in Harvel.
Tea: The Cock Inn, Henley Street is known for its real ales (15 minutes walk to Sole Street station from the pub.) or the Railway Inn at Sole Street station.
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N=1 off the train feeling a bit under the weather decided to do a short circuit to Luddesdown and back before the forecasted rain arrived. The morning was pleasant with w=sun-gradually-buried-in-cloud-turning-to-rain at 1pm. The route to Luddesdown, initially over large ploughed fields, was dry and patches of woodland provided lovely autumn colours with gusts of wind raining leaves into the fields. Bare fields became vineyards at Lower Luddesdown growing Chardonnay grapes and there were sheep lounging among the vines. Could they be drunk on fermented grapes? The return route to Sole Street passed through a field with lots of edible mushrooms - the first field mushrooms I've seen in a long time. I picked a few. I got back to Sole Street in time to see the 12.28 train pull away from the station. I foraged sweet chestnuts and left my phone in the The Railway Inn before catching the 13.28 and was two stops down the line when I missed the phone. Back to Sole Street and the Railway Inn where I was gratefully reunited with my phone and caught the 14.28 back to London.
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