Length: 17.1km (10.6 miles), but with lots of ways to extend up to 20.6km (12.8 miles)
10.15 train from Charing Cross (10.18 Waterloo East, 10.24 London Bridge) to Etchingham, arriving 11.30.
Starting from Robertsbridge: 21.1km (13.1 miles), extendable up to 27.1km (16.8 miles): 9.15 train from Charing Cross (9.18 Waterloo East, 9.24 London Bridge) to Robertsbridge, arriving 10.34
Buy a day return to Etchingham or Robertsbridge as applicable
For walk directions click here. For GPX click here. For a map of the route click here.
This walk was suggested by Brian. I, as walk poster, will not be on this walk, so it is up to participants to a) observe appropriate social distancing by splitting into smaller groups b) to exchange contact details.
This is a pleasant and varied walk in the Weald - pleasingly hilly without being too demanding. In the afternoon there are options of various lengths that take you down to the edge of the Bewl Water Reservoir. The Robertsbridge start adds 2.5 miles and takes almost exactly an hour, so you should arrive at Etchingham about the same time as the main group.
Lunch pubs include The Bell in Ticehurst (no outside tables?) and The Bull in Three Legged Cross 1.1km further on (lots of outside tables). It might be an idea to phone either one of them before you rely on them. Another option is the Greedy Goat Cafe in Ticehurst: its Facebook page says it is now open till 3pm on Saturdays. The village also has a convenience store, opposite The Bell, so if the above options let you down, you could probably buy a sandwich there.
Tea will probably be in one of the pubs in Wadhurst, the Wealden Wholefoods Cafe being impossible to reach in time, even assuming it is open: but the village also has a convenience store with pastries and a hot drinks machine.
The back lanes route from Wadhurst village to Wadhurst station is highly recommended over the shorter main road route, but the latter does have a pavement all the way.
Trains back from Wadhurst are at 29 and 59 past until 19.29, then 29 past. T=3.208
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Thanks to the lady who suggested Yalding Circular: it looks like a nice walk, but does overlap about 50% with Wateringbury Circular which was posted just two weeks ago and got a good turnout. One to bear in mind for the future, however
5 off the train at Etchingham synchronised neatly with 2 who had started earlier from Robertsbridge and n=7 set off under w=overcast-becoming-sunny-with-occasional-clouds across the Rother valley to Ticehurst, a very pretty Sussex village, where lunch was taken in the grounds of the parish church. After lunch we walked on, passing up the chance of a drink at the Bull at Three Leg Cross and choosing instead a bit of impromptu windfall gathering in an orchard of apple and plum trees. A discussion ensued on the difference, if any, between Private and Strictly Private, as proclaimed by several signs we passed. We decided that Strictly Private meant you had to be able to foxtrot. Thereafter the group separated, some opting for the Bewl Water loop, others making their way across picture-postcard landscape (think a church spire rising on a wooded hill, oast houses in the foreground) to Wadhurst and, for 1 at least, a pint of Harvey's before catching the bus to the station.
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