Length: 15½ km (9.6 miles).
Toughness: 3 out of 10
Trains: Charing Cross 10.04, London Bridge 10.13, to Tonbridge (10.46) where you change to catch the 11.01 from platform 1 to Penshurst, arriving 11.09.
Trains back from Penshurst run hourly at xx.22 until 15.22, then with greater frequency -roughly half hourly - with some going via Redhill and some via Tonbridge. Buy a return that is valid via all routes.
Lunch: The suggested place on the Main Walk (after 9½ km, or 6 km with the short cut) is the Wheatsheaf (01732-700100) pub/restaurant in Bough Beech village.
Tea: In Chiddingstone, the Tulip Tree (01892-870326) is open daily to 5pm. Chiddingstone Castle has an equally good Tea Room (01892-870347) with a good range of cakes. It is in a courtyard around the back of the castle through the shop.
At the end of the walk, the Little Brown Jug (01892-870318) in Chiddingstone Causeway is just across the road from Penshurst station; it is usually open all day and serves tea and coffee as well as normal pub fare.
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N=18 set off from Penshurst station in w=warm-cloudy-sometimes-sunny weather. Walking conditions were good with mainly firm ground and only short patches of manageable mud on some paths. As we reached Bough Beech reservoir, the walk author pulled up in his car and walked with us to the lunch stop where he and a few others had drinks in the garden of the Wheatsheaf while picnickers sat in a very pleasant field behind the pub garden to consume their vittles. It was a short distance from there to Chiddingfold where some went to the Tulip Tree and 3 visited the Castle tea rooms. From there, an even shorter stretch to Penshurst station. A few people visited the Little Brown Jug for further refreshment before crossing the road to catch trains via Redhill and Tonbridge back to London.
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