Staplehurst to Headcorn 12.8km (7.9 miles)
Staplehurst to Sissinghurst 12.6km (7.8 miles) or Cranbrook 15.2km (9.4miles)
Staplehurst to Headcorn via Sissinghurst 19.8km (12.2 miles)
Difficulty 2 out of 10
An array of easy walks in the Kentish Weald. The basic walk can be extended to Sissinghurst Castle, famous for the gardens designed by Vita Sackville-West. From there you can either complete a longer walk to Headcorn or, if spending time in the gardens, take the infrequent bus back to Staplehurst.
Trains: Get the 9:40 Dover Priory train from Charing Cross (London Bridge 9:49) arrives Staplehurst 10:40..
Return to Charing Cross from Headcorn at xx:15 and xx:45. Get a return to Headcorn. (You want the ticket from Charing Cross. NOT the expensive one from St Pancras).
Lunch:
The Bell and Jorrocks, Frittenden (01580 852415) for the basic walk.
For those venturing to Sissinghurst, there’s the National Trust Restaurant at Sissinghurst Castle (accessible without paying the entrance fee).
Tea: In Headcorn you have the George and Dragon and Bill's Village Tea rooms (closes 4:30), both on the High Street.
Sissinghurst. Entry to the castle gardens costs £15 unless you're an NT member. If you want to get the bus back, it's a 30 minute walk, following paragraphs 100-112 in the directions. The two-hourly number 5 bus leaves for Staplehurst at 13 :12, 15:12 and 17:12 (last one). These arrive at the station at xx:25 to meet trains at xx:50. The same bus leaves Cranbrook at 06 past the same hour.
Walk Directions here
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3 comments:
No sign of a BH walk on Monday.
Do we need more walk posters?
Quite a bit over the top maybe, that reply?
Gavin's question sounds like a perfectly good one, especially in a club full of non-Brits and non-Royalists (Brits and Non-Brits), as the SWC certainly is. Millions of people did other things than follow a funeral on that day. Are they all "idiots"?
And yes, the club can always do with more people getting involved, as far as I can see.
Agreed, Thomas !
What I should have said:
"Gavin, per my understanding, a bank holiday was declared on the day of the state funeral to enable "the people" either to participate in it or, in the majority of cases, to let them watch the ceremony and pageantry on TV. It would not have been appropriate to post a walk on this day and my fellow walk posters chose not to.
As for our number of walk posters, I believe we have a sufficient number for the task in hand but new recruits are always welcome."
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