SWC Walk 222: Robertsbridge Circular with SWC 30 for a longer route to Battle
Distance: A few options to suit various appetites:
Main route:
Robertsbridge Circular: 11.4 miles (18.3 km for those more metrically minded)
Battle
endings: Shorter option via Netherfield
12.2 miles (or 19.7 km for those metrically minded)
Longer
option via Catsfield (but not Brown Bread) 15.8 miles (or 25.5 km).
Difficulty: 4 out of 10
Train: Take the 9:00
AM Southeastern Hastings bound train from London Charing Cross (9:02 Waterloo East; 9:09 London Bridge; 9:41
Orpington) to Robertsbridge, arriving 10:34.
Return trains from Battle are at
XX:07 and XX:37 and from Robertsbridge XX:14 and XX:44, until the 19:07 when
they become hourly. Buy a day return
to Robertsbridge or, if planning to finish in Battle, Battle. Not very helpfully, the national rail
planner says the weekend schedule may change….so please check back on Friday
to confirm train time……
The introduction of this walk begins “a
shortcoming of this walk is there is no lunch stop.” So, what better time to
give it one of its rare outings – when pubs are closed! The route
begins through territory familiar from another SWC walk – but then heads into rarely
visited “Mad Jack” Fuller territory
via Brightling, including an interesting tower and mausoleum.
For those wanting a longer walk, slightly over
halfway through the main walk (near Cackle Street), it is possible to follow
the interconnector instructions and join up with SWC 30 Battle Circular (near
Netherfield). From here, you can either follow the Battle Circular route as
written via Netherfield or for a longer route to Battle follow the Battle Circular
route in reverse via Catsfield. You can find more information about the walk
and download the walk instructions here (SWC 222) and here (SWC 30).
Although tea shops and pubs are closed, both Robertsbridge
and Battle have shops to buy post walk refreshies….Some tea shops in Battle may
offer a take away service.
It is expected to walk in groups of six and provide contact details. To facilitate the collection of contact details, please pre-register for this walk on the "events" page at https://www.lwug.co.uk/. You will need to first sign-on and possibly register if you have not previously registered on the site.
If you test positive for COVID within a week of attending this walk, please contact me by emailing covid@lwug.co.uk.
Enjoy the walk!
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6 comments:
Glad to see we have a walk posted.
So happy to see a walk! ��
Wanderer wants an email before we turn up on a walk. Do all schedulers require the same? If so, absolutely fine. Thank you very much.
It is fair to say the walk posters are experimenting with the best approach to tackle collecting track and trace details.....I am still considering the options and will likely add an email or other pre-registration link to the post in the next day or so....
Thank you.
n=15 on this first post lockdown day walk. I am pleased to report most had pre-registered, making the contact tracing detail gathering process run more smoothly...Although efforts were made to depart in smaller groups -- we got a bit muddled following the first few instructions -- however, the group did then quickly disperse into 4 separate parties for the day (it helped that some of us went rather wrong early on) -- one group did the Robertsbridge circular, two groups did the shorter route to Battle separately and one group explored another route to Battle that follows the main route along the reservoir before heading south. We enjoyed it very much and would recommend it as an option to the walk.
It was a great day out and fun to see everyone, including those very briefly at the station....even if the weather was w=a-bit-damp-with-persistent-light-rain-for-several-hours.
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