Length: 15 km (9.3 miles)
Toughness: 4 out of 10
London Victoria: 10-25 hrs Southeastern service to Ramsgate Bromley South: 10-42 hrs
Arrive Borough Green: 11-10 hrs
Return: Sevenoaks to Charing Cross: 8 an hour (change at Orpington for Victoria, or underground - Embankment, District Line - to Victoria )
Rail ticket: a day return to Borough Green usually works
This lovely walk is enjoyable in all seasons and today should benefit from autumn colours which should be on display in woodland sections.
Leaving Borough Green we walk through Basted village with its ponds to head along a bridleway which is often muddy. Then its through an apple orchard and along tracks to the village of Plaxtol, with its Cromwellian church (worth a visit). We next walk down through the grassy parkland of the Fairlawne Estate and head for the National Trust's Ightham Mote, a lunch option. For a pub lunch you need to detour to the village of Shipbourne and its pub, the Chaser Inn.
After Ightham Mote we head up through light woodland, passing hoppers huts, to exit by a lavender farm. On then over fields and along bridleways to Sevenoaks Primary School. From there it is a short distance to an entrance to Knole Park, which we walk through, viewing herds of deer along the way. Tea can be taken in Knole House's Brewhouse Tearoom, or a little later in Sevenoaks High Street.
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17 at the station and 2 joining later made for n=19
The day was w=breezy-sunny-mostly-with-some-cloud Although we had been promised mud, there was little to go round. Hardly enough to make a pie. And only the faintest hint of autumn colour.
The group split after Plaxtol. 4 headed for the Chaser, the rest went straight to Ightam Mote. 3 of the 4 ate at the Chaser 1 just drank. The Ightam posse were not seen again.
And so to Knole Park where the deer were at it. The stags bellowed, the hinds pretended not to notice.
Then home
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