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Thursday, 15 July 2021

Thursday Evening: Lovely Lullingstone Lavender near Shoreham

Evening Walk: Shoreham Circular (North Loop with short cut) t=swc.289

Distance:          Approximately 5.5 miles or 9 km for those more metrically minded

Difficulty:         3 out of 10

Train:               18:24 Hasting train from London Bridge with change in Sevenoaks (18:48 arrival/18:52), arriving Shoreham at 19:02

Return:             21:32; 21:45; 22:02; 22:15; 22:32; 22:45 (to a variety of London-bound destinations)

We did this short version of the Shoreham figure-of-eight walk as an evening walk last year at this time and it worked quite nicely….an easy journey from London to enjoy the evening in some lovely gentle undulating countryside….with a splash of purple ….The walk route passes by the usually very impressive lavender field at Castle Farm which should be in good bloom now…

Unfortunately, most of the pubs in Shoreham stop serving evening food rather early (usually about 8:30pm) – but we should be able to at least find a drink and some crisps at the end of the walk in one of the 4 pubs or the vineyard in the village….

More information about the route can be found here.

To facilitate collecting track and trace details, please sign up for this walk in advance using the London Walkers User Group site. To report a Covid case after this walk, use covid@lwug.co.uk.   

Enjoy the walk!

1 comment:

Stargazer said...

Four alighted from the designated train to be met by 3 others loitering around Shoreham, making for n=7 for this delightful evening walk in the countryside. We inadvertently did the route anti-clockwise, rather than the advertised clockwise, so apologies for anyone else who may have been looking for us. The lavender was a delight -- much already harvested - but still some fields of a vibrant deep purple. Missing a turning we found a zipline which most of us tried before turning back to find our route. The return was magical -- the clouds that had lingered broke to a beautiful evening sun across golden fields with a rainbow..so close we could have found the pot of gold had we tried....Back in Shoreham, we missed the food...but spent some time in the lovely pond garden area of the Mount Vineyard doing some wine tasting -- the Key Flint white exceeded expectations and most would have again, but the Pinot Noir was thin even by pinot noir standards...not really worth the price...All in all, a very enjoyable evening in good company with conditions w=initially-cloudy-but-clearing-later.