Length: 14 km (8.7 miles) or 17 km (10.6 miles)
Toughness: 4 out of 10 several ups and downs but nothing too strenuous
London Charing Cross: 10-45 hrs Southeastern service to Hastings London Bridge 10-54; Sevenoaks 11-20 hrs
Arrive Stonegate: 11-56 hrs
Return
Robertsbridge to Charing Cross: 14 & 44 mins past the hour
Rail ticket: buy a day return to Robertsbridge
Sunday walkers gave this walk a spin towards the end of July but best I know mid-week walkers have never tried it, so let's correct that omission.
For those preferring the longer version of this walk, they should follow the opening leg of the Book 2 Walk 19 Stonegate Circular walk. Otherwise you follow the directions below as you head for the village of Burwash for lunch, only two miles into the walk (hence the late start). Your choice of pubs are the Rose & Crown, and the Bear Inn.
After lunch you can detour to Batemans, former home of Rudyard Kipling, or continue on the route which ends up in Roberstbridge. Your walk-end watering hole is the quirky Ostrich pub, next to the railway station.
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Walk Directions are here: L=swc.112
3 comments:
n=7 today for this pleasant outing in the High Weald, on a w=mild-to-warm-day-with-intermittent-sunshine, making for good autumn walking conditions. The morning leg was uneventful but enjoyable, in mostly open countryside, offering some fine views, with the coming of autumn well in evidence, with oaks and beech trees showing good leaf colour. Lunch was taken at the community owned pub, The Rose & Crown in Burwash, with six of us sitting down to enjoy some very good food and down some well kept beer, with our seventh walker joining us for some beers. She left us after lunch to visit Batemans, to then head home for some dance appointments in the evening.
After lunch my remaining companions agreed to join me on a variation to the written route directions, on a way I had taken ten years earlier which I thought offered better views to the written route. All would have been fine if I had not made a total Horlicks of following "my route". My colleagues were very patient as we went back and forth, off piste, trying to get on route. After some major diversions and some trespassing we managed to get back on route on the drive to Old Brick farm. We might have been off piste (but like Mr M Tiger, not lost !) but the countryside we traversed was glorious with more leaf colour. Later the enclosed path above lakes between Socknersh Manor and Wyland Wood was delightful, and although by now an hour behind schedule we made it from here to the quirky Ostrich pub shortly after 5 pm. Drinks were enjoyed by the six of us, with four of us taking the 17-44 hrs train, whilst our two beer connoisseurs settled in at the pub for a session.
This was my first SWC walk in more than four months and it was lovely to be welcomed back by my companions today - so my thanks to them.
Plus 5 on an earlier train.
Thanks Joe, so that makes n=12
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