This is the Dover to Deal walk in reverse. It should be easy to do. Just keep the sea to your left. This may be an ideal time to do this walk as you should see masses of beautiful wild flowers on the shingle beach as you walk out of Deal. There should be a stunning display. Added bonus is the wonderful view of the cliffs as you walk into Dover.
Directions for this option start in paragraph 61 on page 8. You only need pages 1-3 and 8-10 of this document if doing the walk in this direction
Length: 17.7km (11 miles).
Toughness: 3
out of 10
Train:
depart London St Pancras 9.07 arrive Deal 10.30
Return
trains from Dover Priory
xx.00 to London STP changing at Ashford
International OR
xx.00 remain
on same train to Charing Cross
xx.18 to
Victoria
xx.48 to St.
Pancras (no change)
Ticket
type: Buy a day
return to Deal (please check whether you need to pay the high speed supplement)
Lunch: In this direction you also have a choice of
lunch pubs: you can have stop after just 4.6km/2.9 miles at the Zetland Arms,
which has some outside tables right on the beach, or carry on for another
4.7km/2.9 miles to the Coastguards pub in St Margarets Bay, with its pleasant
terrace overlooking the sea.
For full details, including
lunch and tea stops and directions (in reverse to get from Deal station, and to
Dover station, please see here: https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/dover-to-deal/
T=2.30
4 comments:
The link is to the wrong walk! This one is Battle Circular. I gather it should be Book 2 Walk 30. Can anyone put the right link up? Thanks very much. Kate
Yes - it should work now
My apologies and thank you Sandy.
N=7 on a day that w=started_misty_and-stayed-cloudy-but-dry (OK, the occasional drop fell from the sky but nothing you could call rain). And I think I saw the sun once or twice. And mud? What’s mud? The mist, however, could have been called fog. Not much sight of the sea, never mind France. Sadly this didn’t fool my phone, which switched time and welcomed me there.
There was flowers, as predicted. An exotic selection along the beaches and native ones up top. ( I could impress you by mentioning the rosy garlic, mignonette and sainfoin but I won’t).
An early snifter at the Zetlamd for 5. Then on, along the clifftop to St Margaret’s Bay and the Coastguard, a pub that may have lost some of its magic for Mr Tiger. 2 had a sumptuous repast , one had snacks, and one an oversweet cider.
The group disintegrated after St Margaret’s but reassembled miraculously on the station platform.
I was going to say that I prefer this walk the other way round, because Dover is such a miserable place to finish. But I was seething with jealousy when I heard that some had found a real ale pub called the Hoptimist. And then what happened? On the train back, the sun came out. Big time. Ooh!
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