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More photos from the walks

Fackenden Down, Shoreham

Mariner’s Hill, Westerham

Chartwell

Ide Hill village

Goodbye sun. Toy’s Hill

The Weald in the gloaming

Ide Hill’s church, Kent’s highest

Near Underriver

Darent Valley above Shoreham

Meenfield woods winter

Meenfield woods April

Polhill Bank, autumn

Near Mill Lane, Shoreham, Kent.

Darwin’s fields

From One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks, looking towards Tonbridge and the Ashdown Forest

Sunflowers near Budds

Ightam Mote

Ightham Mote’s superb front

A stand of trees… perhaps a type of willow, near Shipbourne

Just south of Ightam Mote, looking north

The track nearing Ightham Mote

Rye Harbour

Camber Sands from Rye Harbour

Hut. Rye Harbour

That hut

Anvil cloud to the north

Wat Stock Farm, near Penshurst

Storm many miles to the north

Bore Place meadow

Bough Beech reservoir

Storm seen from Chiddingstone was actually in Buckinghamshire, 80-90 miles away

Chiddingstone walk buttercups

Path at Chiddingstone

River Eden

Hawthorn

Looking over to farm near Penshurst

Chiddingstone, Wat Stock farm

Dunstall woods path (point 2-3)

Campions, Dunstall woods

Darenth Valley view, walk 16 (point4-5)

In the valley, spring. Near Point 8

Primrose

Hidden valley, Ightham Mote

Hidden valley near Ightham

Ightham Mote daffs

Shipbourne view

Beckenham Place Park mansion

Spooky house between points 5-6

Chartwell from the Mariners Hill loop

Looking back at conifer trail after point 8

Conifers point 8-9

Hosey Hill green point 8

Knole. 3 March. Bleak

Knole pine clump

More snow this weekend for Knole

Knole

Chestnut Walk. Knole

Deer in the thaw at Knole. March 2018

Pond at Knole in snow; March 2018

Pines in snow at Knole

Pines in snow

Chestnut Walk, Knole

Knole House in snow

Wilmot Hill near Stone Street

Filston Rd hill snow, Shoreham

Lullingstone snow

Knole in March snow, 2018

Looking towards Ightam Mote, February

View from Wilmot Hill

Knole eastern forest

Chestnut walk Knole

Knole

On the way down Wilmot Hill

Near Bitchet’s Green, Stone Street

One Tree Hill view

View from Wilmot Hill

Cliffe

St Helen’s church, Cliffe

Marshes, Cliffe

From the sea wall, Cliffe

Marsh, Cliffe

Thames at Cliffe

Cliffe, church and moon

Thames mud flats, Cliffe

Church and lagoons, Cliffe

Looking east, sea wall, Cliffe

Icy dyke, Cliffe

Dry valley Andrews/Meenfield woods, winter.

Old outflow pipe, Cliffe

Meenfield woods path, ridge walk west of Shoreham, Kent.

Dry valley west of Shoreham, between Andrews and Meenfield woods

Westerham

Cliffe sea wall

Winter walkers Meenfield woods

Pine avenue, Meenfield woods

Chartwell, home of Churchill, autumn

November view from Mariners Hill, Westerham walk

Andrews wood, winter light

Looking back towards Westerham and the North Downs chalk ridge. Autumn

Walkers on the Meenfield woods high level path, Shoreham

Autumn colours on the Downe walk

Wilmots Hill view autumn

Pine avenue Meenfileld woods

Late flowering rose at Emmetts Garden

Ide Hill

Classic Kent autumn view. From Emmetts Gardens looking south over Bough Beech

View from path to Ightam Mote

On One Tree Hill

The amazing tree growing out of the escarpment at One Tree Hill

Emmetts Garden and John Lubbock’s old house

Gaultheria Mucronata (Ericeae) from Chile/Argentina at Emmetts Garden

Autumn foliage Emmett’s Garden, Ide Hill

Gaultheria Mucronata (Ericeae) from Chile/Argentina at Emmetts Garden

Autumn foliage, Emmett’s Garden, Ide Hill

Classic autumnal Kent view from Emmett’s Garden looking across Bough Beach to Chiddingstone and the Weald

Ide Hill walk looking back from Scord wood

Looking back over Eynsford, point 3-4, walk 12

River Darent Shoreham-Eynsford

Sun behind Eynsford on a drab day, early autumn

Darent Valley early autumn

Poplars in the distance, Lullingstone/Eynsford

Start of the Ide Hill walk

The valley between Ide Hill and Scord Wood/Toys Hill

On the Ide Hill Walk

Path point 4-5, summer

On the path from Upper Austin Lodge, between point 4 & 5

River and highland cattle, Eynsford, walk 3 & 12

Water meadows, Eynsford

Old George, Shoreham

Walk 14, point 5-6

Walk 3, point 3-4

Walk 12 near point 3

Walk 12 near point 11 alternative route from Roman Villa (also walk 3)

Walk 3 point 10/walk 12 point 5

Walk 3 point 4-5

Walk 3 point 3-4

Walk 3 point 4-5

River Darent crossing between Point 5 and 6

Near point 7, Shoreham circular

Between point 6 and 7

Walk 14 point 4

Walk 12 point 4

Shoreham play Sidcup, Point 3

Mount Vineyard, Shoreham, from an alternative path behind the village

Mill House, Shoreham

River Darent, Shoreham

Mill Lane Shoreham

Lydd church

Lydd

The nuke power station

RSPB view

RSPB

Power station from RSPB

East Camber houses

Shingle, typcal Dunge

Near Camber

The beach

Camber Sands and golf course

Looking west, Camber Sands

Marram grass, Camber

Sea buckthorn, Camber

Dunes and wind farm

Camber

Fackenden Down, Shoreham Mk2 walk

Mariner’s Hill, Westerham

Ide Hill field, dusk, autumn

Evening clouds

Ide Hill

Evening sky, Scord wood

Shoreham village bridge

Red Arrows

The new clearing looking south from near the start of the Ide Hill walk.

September, rainy day looking out from Polhill Bank near Shoreham.

Vineyards, Epesses. The south-facing slopes along Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey-Montreux are lined with ancient vineyards set on terraces that date from Roman times. They produce mostly white wine from the chasselas grape. Pictured is a vineyard at Epesses near the larger village of Cully.

Epesses. Another view of the steep wine terraces. The road and railway hug the shoreline. The trains, by the way, were, err… like clockwork?

Montreux. Another local resident was Queen founder and vocalist Freddie Mercury.

Joshua trees are extraordinary. Members of the yucca family they are pollinated by various sub species of yucca moth in different parts of the desert. Like the pinyon pines they are threatened by climate change.

Teddybear cholla cactus (cylindropuntia bigelovii) in Joshua Tree national park’s cactus garden. The spines get embedded in your skin despite you not realising you’d touched them. I was picking them out for days afterwards.

Santa Rosa plateau is also valued for its human history; the area was important for Native Americans for thousands of years and has adobe structures from the 19th century Mexican land grant

Budding young shower cloud, Chiddingstone

View towards Chartwell

View south final field

The Plough, Eynsford

Chestnut walk

Walk 14 point 5

Ide Hill Walk approaching Scord Wood

Lullingstone/Eynsford. Early October. Bleak

Walk 3, point 3-4

B17 Flying Fortress prepares to land at Biggin Hill, near Downe

Foxglove Newtye Hurst wood

Spruce and dogrose

On the Stock wood path

Lovely heat across meadows near Hever

Rose bay willow

A spruce on the path by Stock wood

Near Hill Hoath

Tulips, Emmetts Garden. 2017, Ide Hill

Azaleas, Emmetts Garden, Ide Hill

Emmetts black, red, white tulips 2017

Bluebells, Emmetts/Scords wood, 2017

Meenfield Woods bluebells, above Shoreham

Bluebells near Ightam Mote

Tulips, Emmetts Garden, Ide Hill walk

Views of Ide Hill church accompany much of the walk

View across the Weald from the Octavia Hill seat, Ide Hill

Beckenham Place Park mansion

The mansion at Beckenham Place Park is decaying but still grand

The Castle Inn, a beautiful pub in a Tudor building next to Chiddingstone Castle

Henry VIII pub near Hever

Spring blackthorn blossom near Hever

The view over Bough Beech and the Weald from the Ide Hill Post Office and village community store

Woods waking up in early spring, Hever

Between Stock Wood and Newtye Hurst Wood, Hever

Newtye Hurst Wood near Hever

Beeches, Downe, mid-March

Blackthorn blossom, One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent, April 1, 2017

Chiddingstone walk. River Eden, near Penshurst, April

By Wat Stock Farm

Blackthorn blossom on One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent

Blackthorn blossom, One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks

Downe, Point 4-5

Church at Downe

clematis armandii

Queen’s Head, Downe

Point 8-9

Point 7-8

Point 6-7

Golf course (below point 5)

‘Darwin’s meadow’ point 3-4

Darwin’s House Point 1-2

Ide Hill fog bank 2017

Winter near Dunstall Farm, walks 5 and 14

Downe in the snow, February 2017

Ide Hill fog bank 2017

Point 6-7, steep dry valley

Looking north from between point 5-6, walk 14

The derelict barn approaching Austin Lodge, point 4, walk 14

Larch trees near point 2, walk 14

Looking south towards Romney St

Nearing Dunstall Farm at the end of the walk

Larches point 2

Nearing point 4

Path point 4-5

Tree tunnel after Austin Lodge Point 4-5

Romney St view

Shut Fox and Hounds, Romney St (close to 6 but just off the route)

Highest point… looking west

View from nr Romney St

Steep valley point 6-7

Dry valley and Round Hill point 6

Defunct golf course, point 6-7

Field adjacent to Darwin’s house, Downe, January

Frosty hillside fields, Downe

Downe near point 3 in winter

Eynsford, Lullingstone, Kent. Flinty field.

Eynsford Lullingstone flinty field, winter

Flinty field sunset, nr Eynsford

Eynsford walk. Viaduct

Eynsford-Lullingstone walk. Flinty field sunset, winter

Eynsford-Lullingstone walk, winter

Darent Valley from Lullingstone’s high point

Near Scord Wood, looking south east, early winter

Ide HIll, winter

Ide Hill, view from Scord Wood in winter

Emmett’s bluebell bank in early winter

Ide Hill, looking north from behind the Cock Inn in winter

Pines near point 5

Edlmann wood near point 3

The path that crosses the fields after point 3

Walking along the edge of the field just after point 4

Stag at Knole, November 2016 (Point 1 on the Knole Walk)

Railway viaduct, Eynsford, Kent

Autumn leaves

Ide Hill church

Beautiful weatherboard house, Ide Hill green

Emmetts Garden, autumn

Sunset, Lullingstone

Gate on the Ide Hill/Emmetts walk, autumn

Sun set behind ragged cumulus

Western sky

Sky in a state of flux above Sevenoaks, pictured from western ridge Darent Valley

Darent valley autumn

Looking back into the field after point 9. Downe, sunset (final field of walk)

River Darent, Shoreham

Darent valley entrance

Shetland pony, Downe

Field and sky, late summer, Shoreham

1900s hop pickers cabin, near Ightam Mote

Weald view on One Tree Hill walks

Take the path angled between hedges next to the ‘Bothy’ gate

Just after the holloway section turn right and go through THIS kissing gate next to a strip of meadow

Between point 4 & 5. Hay bales close to Darwin’s Sand Walk, Downe

Between point 3 & 4. Darwin’s field, late September, Downe

Flowers on Ightam Mote walk

Rosebay willowherb, One Tree Hill

Rosebay willowherb and bee, One Tree Hill

Oast houses, Ightam Mote

Hidden valley path on way to Ightam Mote

Ightam Mote Tudor cottages

Field scabious, Downe

Just after point 3. Mackeral sky looking south, September

Hillside meadow, point 7,Downe, looking north

Looking east from foot of Darwin’s garden , Downe

Hurricane and Spitfire

Hillside field near Downe

Marbled white butterfly, July, Downe

Final field to cross on Downe walk

Top of meadow behind Darwin’s garden facing south west

Downe village

Red Arrows

Red Arrows seen from near Downe

Red Arrows

Bough Beech – that view again (the only view!)

No closer … the elusive Bough Beech

River Eden and water meadows from near Penshurst

Cow parsley and buttercups by the river eden between Chiddingstone and Penshurst

River Eden at Point 8 of the Chidd’stone-Penshurst walk

The three oaks with a Tiger Moth biplane overhead just after Point 8

Cereal field and view south from near Penshurst (Chidd walk Point 7-8)

Pond and view north from Wat Stock Farm, Point 4-5

St Mary’s Church at Chiddingstone peeps through trees behind field of rape plants

Solitary oak in field by Chiddingstone

Buttercups and a dog called Maddie or (Maddy) in meadow next to Downe House

Tree growing out of sandstone outcrop, Hill Hoath

Hill Hoath sandstone

Small oak in field near Stock wood

Poplars near Hever

Rhododendron near Wilderness Farm

Llama in field by point 2, Hever walk

St Peter’s Church, Hever

Hawthorn, Hever walk

Cow parsley/buttercups, Hever

Superb meadow of buttercups near Hever

River Eden

River Eden near Penshurst

On the ridge path between Chiddingstone and Penshurst

Soon after joining the path at Point 7, nr Penshurst

Hawthorn on Downe walk

Between point 6 & 7 Hawthorn on Downe walk

Hawthorn on Downe walk

Ancient ‘holloway’ through sandstone on the Eden Valley Path at Hill Hoath

Bough Beech reservoir. Photo taken from causeway at north east corner, near visitor centre

Penshurst Place from the road

Oast houses, Chiddingstone

Another solo oak

Hazy view of the Greensand Ridge and Ide Hill from the path near Penshurst

Solitary oak near Chiddingstone

Chiddingstone Lake

Tudor houses at Chiddingstone

View across Bough Beech from Emmetts

Azaleas at Emmetts

Path through bluebells at Wilmot’s Hill near Ightam Mote

Meadow a mile east of Hever

Ice fall from cloud over Penshurst April 30, Hever walk

Pines by meadow near Hever

Thunderstorm over Edenbridge seen from Hill Hoath

Path at Chiddingstone

Chiddingstone Castle

Tulips at Emmetts

Bluebells at top of Wilmot Hill near Ightam

Thunderstorm near Hever

Mid-spring near Hill Hoath, Hever walk

May Day from Wilmot’s Hill, Ightam Mote

May Day view to Shipbourne from near Ightam Mote

Ightam Mote in mid-spring

Storm developing west of Hever

On the Ide Hill walk

Octavia Hill seat, Ide Hill

Ide Hill bluebells

Emmetts Gardens bluebells

Dead pine, Eeyore’s Gloomy Place, Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest walking in Eeyore’s Gloomy Place

Downe bluebells

Devil’s Kneading Trough, North Downs Way, near Wye

National Trust gem Ightham Mote

Meenfleld Woods above Shoreham

Devil’s Kneading Trough, North Downs, Wye, Kent

Heather at Gills Lap, Ashdown Forest

Gorse, Ashdown Forest

Heather, Ashdown Forest

Strange terrain at Knole

Horses near Ide Hill

Early spring by Scords wood

Looking out towards Bough Beech and Ashdown Forest from Scords wood

Stormy Monday at Knole

Showers at Ide Hill

Storm on the way, Knole (point 4)

Daffodils at Emmetts, 2017

Deer on bumpy ground at Knole

Sleet shower just south of Ide Hill

View from Wilmots Hill

Top of Wilmots Hill

Lonely tree, nr Eagle Heights, Eynsford

Trees on skyline, nr Eynsford, winter

Near West Peckham (close to Shipbourne/Ightam Mote)

Lullingstone dusk, looking east from near Eagle Heights

Winter moon, seen at Lullingstone

Looking west, January

Load bearing … the Sevenoaks railway line crosses the Darent on a Victorian viaduct at Eynsford

Summer wheat, Lullingstone

Darent path between Eynsford and Shoreham

Path less travelled … nearing Lullingstone, looking back

The highest point of the walk

Solitary oak on Shoreham to Eynsford walk

Leaf me alone … solitary tree between Shoreham and Eynsford

On the valley floor

From near Shoreham station

Darent river at Lullingstone

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