9 miles / 14.5 km
A walk through the Kentish countryside - a lowland morning with an afternoon ascent up to Knole Park for tea.
Trains: London Victoria 10:12, Bromley South 10:30, Tonbridge 10:54 - from here take the 11:01 to Leigh (Kent), arriving 11:05.
Frequent return trains from Sevenoaks, but today serving London Victoria rather than London Bridge/Charing X.
Buy a day return to Leigh (Kent).
Lunch: White Rock Inn, Underriver (01732 833112) - lunch served til 4pm.
T=1.21
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This is the second time I've written a walk report which has ended up in "Comments." What am I doing wrong?
@Brian: You need to write numbers and weather as (say) nEQ8 and wEQbrilliant-sunshine (or whatever), but replacing my EQ with = so that it displays as n=8 and w=brilliant-sunshine. I think that's what our webmaster's software uses to determine that it's a walk report.
Hi Brian you just need an "=" character between the octothorpe and the walk attendee number or weather description.
The #= is simply a replacement for both w= or the n=
Hope this helps
7 off the train and 1 at the lunchtime pub, so #8 on this gentle walk under #brilliant-sunshine-and-a-cloudless-blue-sky. (Okay, it clouded over later, but let's not split hairs.) Crossing bare fields and through woodland, the first signs of spring soon appeared in the form of crocuses and snowdrops - can the first lambs be far behind? A young couple who started off behind us mysteriously appeared in front as we approached Underriver, but we never found out how they managed it. We did, however, at the suggestion of a sharp-eyed map-bearer, take a slight detour via field paths instead of the road between Oak Tree Farm and Watts Cross.
Arriving at Underriver (the name "Underriver" is derived from the Old English sub le ryver which translates into modern English as "under the hill" so, nothing to do with rivers at all) four picnickers found conveniently placed tables outside the village hall, while three elected to lunch at the White Rock pub. They were just being served as the picnickers left, so perhaps one of them will report on the food?
Up a steep and very muddy hollow way, obviously much used by horses, we emerged on the Greensand Way which we followed into Knole Park and then into Sevenoaks for tea and cakes at the Malabar Cafe before a short stroll down London Road to the station. As always with the SWC, a good day out in very convivial company.
Yes, trial and error (mainly error) established that just using the hash sign does the trick.
Fixed now.
(the bit that splits the TWW comments feed into before-a-walk and trip-reports looks for a post's first comment with a numbers or weather tag - but it was only looked "N" and "W" tags, not "hash" ones [Thanks Sean]
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