Length 16.8km (10.4 miles)
Toughness 3 out of 10
Trains: Take the 10.04 Dover Priory train from Charing Cross, 10.07 Waterloo East, 10.13 London Bridge changing at Paddock Wood (10.53) to catch the 11.03 Strood train, arriving Yalding 11.10.
Return trains from Borough Green and Wrotham: xx:30 to London Bridge and Charing Cross, xx.18 and xx :45 to London Victoria
Buy a day return to Yalding.
This is an easy walk through the woods and fields of the Kent countryside, without too much in the way of hills. The walk starts beside the River Medway, follows the Greensand Way to Roydon Hall and then heads gently uphill to East Peckham and St Michaels Church. The route now takes you to the village of Mereworth, Mereworth Woods, the village of Crouch, then through woodland to Basted and on to Borough Green.
Lunch : For a pub lunch, The Swan on the Green, West Peckham (tel 01622 812 271), some 6.8 km into the walk is the most popular.
Picnickers have previously found benches near The Swan and in the the porch of the Church of St Lawrence in Mereworth.
Tea : Melias Place coffee shop in Borough Green or other options mentioned in the walk directions.
L=1.50
1 comment:
Things are still drying out this morning after a day of #light-rain-then-heavy-rain, and my paper map is in the bin. Tbh I didn't read the forecast till I was on the train. Nevertheless, 5 stalwarts gathered at Yalding; at lunchtime number #6 was found sheltering in the West Peckham church porch, and joined us for drinks in the Swan. Food there looked good, the pub was packed so service was inevitably a bit slow but the staff were friendly and welcoming.
We were disappointed to find the rain had got heavier when we left the pub, but that was nothing to the torrential downpour which followed as we walked through Mereworth Woods. All the same most seemed to be enjoying themselves and we thought it was a good walk for the time of year, with autumn colours and mostly clear paths. The rain was stopping by thre time we got to Borough Green. Two got the 1618, others waited in the no-frills Robin Hood free house for a welcome few minutes drying-out time before the 1630.
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