Length: 14 km (8.7 miles). Toughness: 1/10
10:51 East Grinstead train from Victoria (Clapham Jct 10:58, East Croydon 11:09), changing at Oxted (arr 11:33, dep 11:38) for the Uckfield train, arriving Edenbridge Town at 11:47. Unless you might want to do the optional extension to Hever (see † below), buy a return to Edenbridge.
Trains back from Edenbridge Town are hourly at xx:10, again changing at Oxted. If there are problems on this line there's another Edenbridge station with trains to Redhill at xx:41 (tickets are issued to 'Edenbridge Stations' and are valid on both routes).
This is an easy walk in the Eden Valley, with a morning loop through farmland and meadows to the east of Edenbridge, and an afternoon loop through water meadows (and a farm airstrip) to the west of the town.
The suggested lunch pub is The Old Eden. There are a couple of other pubs and a Costa Coffee as alternatives, and a riverside spot for picnickers. The Costa is open to 5pm and is the suggested tea stop.
† For a shorter walk you could simply do just one of the two loops. Conversely, the walk document includes directions for an optional extension to Hever station (trains at xx:07) on the continuation of the Eden Valley Walk. If you might want to do this extended walk of 18 km, buy a return to Hever.
You'll need to bring the directions from the L=swc.344 page. If you're not planning to do the extension you can save a page or two by clicking the Main Walk option.
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There were 9 at the station. The day w=started-cloudy-finished-sunny and it wasn’t boggy, well, most of it wasn’t. We hadn’t got far round the figure of 8, barely a comma’s worth, when we were accosted by a shifty looking fellow on a bridge. Apparently it was the walk’s author come to check how we were finding it. “OK” we said. He can’t have been convinced because he followed us all the way round just to be sure. Honestly!
After we’d done the first O it was time for lunch, which was had in the Old Eden. I can’t tell you what the others thought of lunch cos I didn’t ask them. The pub was short staffed so it was a long time comin. As were the two latecomers who joined us there. Which made us n=12 Or was it 13?
And so on to the second O.
In the middle of the airfield, three of us were persuaded by the author to take a shortcut. (Singled out as troublemakers, obviously). “Ooh lovely” I thought, “short cut” thinking it cut off a field or something. It was some shortcut. Before I got a chance to whinge “are we nearly there yet“, I was back at the Old Eden. Another pint of cider, and it was off to the station and home. Most got the 17:10. One was delayed by a pint of beer.
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