Walking in Kent Cicerone Guidebook

by: Kev Reynolds
Kent is a wonderfully diverse county and these walks explore every corner, from the estuaries of the Medway to the vast sweep of the Weald with its historic villages, orchards, hop gardens and vineyards and hidden architectural treasures. Encompassing woodland walks, clifftop paths and riverside rambles, there is something here for everyone.

This guide includes 40 walks, ranging from 5 miles to 9 miles, arranged regionally; covering west Kent and the Weald and the north and east of the county and suitable for the whole year. Each walk has easy-to-follow route descriptions illustrated with OS Landranger mapping. The book also outlines 11 longer walks, including the Darent Valley Path, the Saxon Shore Way anf the North Downs way National Trail. The guide is copiously illustrated with colour photographs and there's plenty of background information to help you get the most from walking in the county. There is plenty here to appeal to both family strollers and determined ramblers.

The walk locations are:
Lullingstone Park and Shoreham - 6 miles
Shoreham and Romney Street - 5 miles
Westerham, French Street and Chartwell - 4.5 miles
Crockham Hill and Toys Hill - 5 miles
Toys Hill and Ide Hill - 9 miles
Ide Hill and Manor Farm - 5 miles
Sevenoaks Weald and Boar Hill - 6 miles
Shipbourne and Ightham Mote - 6.5 miles
Four Elms and Winkhurst Green - 7 miles
Marsh Green and Crippenden Manor - 5 miles
Cowden and Horseshoe Green - 6 miles
Cowden and Hoath Corner - 8.5 miles
Chiddingstone and Penshurst - 6 miles
Penshurst, Salmans and Nashes Farm - 5.5 miles
Penshurst andFordcombe - 6.5 miles
Groombridge and Speldhurst - 7 miles
Brenchley and Matfield - 7 miles
Yalding, Hunton and Buston Manor - 6.5 miles
Teston Bridge and East Farleigh - 5.5 miles
Linton and Boughton Monchelsea Place - 5 miles
Ulcombe Church and Grafty Green - 7.5 miles
Pluckley, Little Chart and Egerton - 6.5 miles
Small Hythe and Tenterden - 5.5 miles
Appledore and Stone-in Oxney - 7.5 miles
Camer Country Park and Great Buckland - 6 miles
Stansted, Fairseat and Ridley - 5.5 miles
Trosley Country Park and Ryarsh - 6.5 miles
Newington and Lower Halstow - 6.5 miles
Leysdown-on-Sea and Shellness - 7 miles
Faversham, Uplees and Oare Creek - 6 miles
Faversham, Ham Marshes and Oare Creek - 5 miles
Wye and Crundale - 7 miles
Wye, Wye Downs and Cold Blow 5.5 miles
Chilham and Stour Valley - 5 miles
Stodmarsh Nature Reserve - 4.5 miles
St Nicholas at Wade and Sarre - 6.5 miles
Bridge and Patrixbourne - 6.5 miles
Elham and Breach - 7.5 miles
Sandwich and Sandwich Bay - 6 miles
Dover and St Margaret's at Cliffe - 7 miles

ISBN 9781852848620 Pages 237 (2017) 115mm x 172mm