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  • Walk 11: Knole Park’s wild side (3.5 miles)
  • Walk 12: Eynsford/Lullingstone circular 4.5 miles
  • Walk 13: Chislehurst station to Petts Wood station 3.5 miles
  • Walk 14: Shoreham’s mysterious eastern valleys 6 miles
  • Walk 15 Westerham-Chartwell circular 5 miles
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  • Walk 18: Shoreham and Polhill Bank – 4 miles
  • Walk 19: Shoreham and Fackenden Down – 4 miles
  • Walk 20: Downe circular mk2 4 miles
  • Walk 21: Hosey Common and Chartwell circular 3.9 miles
  • Walk 22: Oldbury Woods/Ightham Mote/Stone Street circular 6 miles
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  • Walk 24: Knockholt Pound-Chevening circular 5 miles
  • Walk 25: Cudham chalk paths – 4 miles
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March 31, 2019 by ammcculloch49

Thanks for donations – passed on to Disaster Emergency Committee

Thanks to those walkers who’ve donated to the site. I decided to pass on the donations to the emergency fund behind the Cyclone Idai recovery effort in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Thanks again.

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View from Fackenden Down
View from Fackenden Down, March 2023
Bough Beech nature reserve
Bough Beech nature reserve
Downe walk under altostratus cloud
Downe walk under altostratus cloud
cloudy day Kent
Sunbeam at Mariners Hill over the low weald of Kent.
Downe walk in winter
Sunshine on beech trees, Downe, January
Lullingstone winter
Beech trees, winter
Beech trees catch the late afternoon sun, Downe
Lullingstone, 17 December, 2022
Lullingstone, 17 December, 2022
Lullingstone winter
Lullingstone winter
Rosehip and Elderberry, Frackenden Down
View over the Weald from Rooks Lane, Underriver.
View over the Weald from Rooks Lane, Underriver.
Underriver, Sevenoaks
View on Underriver walk, November
Knole stag, October
Knole stag, October
Mist obscures Sevenoaks pictured from Polhill
Mist obscures Sevenoaks, pictured from Polhill
Meadow Brown butterfly on scabious
Meadow brown butterfly on scabious flower on side of Fackenden Down
steps in the woods
The 140-steps up White Hill to start the walk (I did it in reverse) under a green canopy
View across dry valley at Austin Spring
View across dry valley at Austin Spring
Kent walk
Southernmost end of Magpie Bottom
View from Romney Street
View from Romney Street, August, Fackenden Down walk
Samuel Palmer pub
The Samuel Palmer pub
View across the slope of Fackenden Down into the Darent Valley
View across Fackenden Down into the Darent Valley
Church, Stone Street, on Oldbury walk, July
Cudham walk
Cudham walk, July, between point 2 and 3, the field short cut
Cudham walk
Cudham: looking back at Point 7, high summer
Pyramidal orchid
Pyramidal orchid in the Andrews Wood-Meenfield Wood gap, June
View over Summer Isles
View over Summer Isles from Ben Mor Coigach, near Ullapool, May.
Bluebells in Emmetts Garden/Scord's Wood, 2022
Bluebells in Emmetts Garden/Scord's Wood, April 2022
Bluebells in Emmetts Garden/Scord's Wood, 2022
Bluebells in Emmetts Garden/Scord's Wood, 2022
Azalea at Emmett's Garden
Azalea at Emmett's Garden
Wild garlic
Wild garlic, Scord's Wood
Scord's wood, Ide Hill
Scord's wood, sun-dappled in spring sunshine
Ide Hill view
View from Ide Hill community store and car park
bluebells
Faded bluebells Emmett's Garden
bluebells
Meenfield Wood, April 2022
Flooded woods, Bough Beech
Flooded woods, Bough Beech, March
Looking back as you join Cacket's Lane
Lamb at point 5
Petts Wood walk, March
Downe walk, February
false sunset at Ide Hill
A cloud layer produces a false sunset at Ide Hill, January
Gorse, Keston Common
Gorse, Keston Common
Polhill view October
Ash dieback at Polhill
Keston Pond in autumn
Sycamore tree, Meenfield Woods, Shoreham
Wheat above Heaverham
Wheat above Heaverham
Pasture on the North Downs escarpment near Otford and Shorehill Rd
The escarpment of the North Downs at Heaverham
The escarpment of the North Downs at Heaverham
Wheat and storm clouds near Heaverham
Wheat and storm clouds near Heaverham
St Clere estate house
St Clere estate house
Wheat and storm on the North Downs Way near Heaverham/Kemsing
Peacock butterfly on marjoram
Peacock butterfly on marjoram
Aubretia at Ightham Mote
View from Point 5 (Shoreham Mk2, and Fackenden Down walk)
Knole
Downe near point 3, autumn
Downe, autumn, Darwin's field
Kettleshill Farm oasts
Underriver
Bough Beech
Rain shaft on the Weald
Dancing beeches
Bough Beech
Bough Beech
Bough Beech a bit later
Letts Green
St Katharine's Church, Knockholt
Pilgrims Way
St Julians club, point 2-3
The view from the car park at Cudham
Beech trees on the sunken path
Cliffe
Cirro cumulus and I think cirrus uncinus, 2020, August
Cirrocumulus, August, 2020
Fair weather at dusk, Cudham
Mackerel sky (cirrocumulus) above dense cumulus forming a thunderstorm over London, August 2020
View from the top
Rainy July day. Point 5-6, looking back, on top of the scarp
A hot July day in the Darent Valley
Comma, Sepham Farm
Mitchell and Peach lavender, point 3-4
Point 3-4
Knole woods point 1
After leaving Romney St
Near Pilcher memorial, Austin Lodge
Foxglove, Newtye Hurst wood, Hever walk
Ightham Mote
Scabious
Alfalfa with small bee
Ransomes, One Tree Hill walk
Near Bough Beech
Tudor houses, Chiddingstone
Tudor houses, Chiddingstone
Ide Hill church rhodedendrons
Lullingstone castle
Hawthorn tree, Downe
Willmott Hill bluebells
Downe
Willmott Hill view
Gorse
Eynsford Castle
Ashdown Forest
Ashdown Forest sunset with distant anvil cloud
cumulo nimbus
Classic cumulonimbus to the north, seen from Wat Stock Farm near Chiddingstone, May 2018. Storm was 90 miles away.
Knole pond in winter
St Mary's Church, Downe
St Mary's Church, Downe
Fragrant orchid, Magpie Bottom
Cirrus at Fackenden Down, June, 2019
Cirrus at Fackenden Down, June, 2019
Storm south of Downe heading for Sevenoaks.
Cumulonimbus seen from Downe, probably over Edenbridge, June 8, 2019.
View over Magpie Bottom from Austin Spring, June 2019
View over Magpie Bottom from Austin Spring, June 2019
Point 4-5, the Cudham valley
Rhododendrons, Hever, Kent. Blue sky and vapour trail
Rhododendrons, Hever, Kent. Blue sky and vapour trail
Cirrus, Fackenden Down, 2019, June
Downe storm to south
Downe
Bluebells at Downe, Kent
Downe
Down House, April, 2019
Bluebells
Downe bluebells 2019
Dungeness sunset
Stratus breaking up, Dungeness
Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm
Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm at sunset.
Brexit phone box by The Pilot pub in Dungeness. An art installation
Brexit Phone Box by The Pilot pub in Dungeness. An art installation
Catkin
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Fackenden Down above Otford Mount
Dusk on an amazingly mild February day at Fackenden Down above Otford Mount
Trees and snow near Dunstall Farm, dusk
Trees near Dunstall Farm, dusk
Dunstall farm house
Dunstall farm house
Cliffe
Cliffe
Cliffe
Oak tree silhouette, Lullingstone, December 27
Point 6-7, Lullingstone, December 27
Lullingstone, December 27
Sunset. Twilight. Dusk. Gloaming Lullingstone, December 27
Line of trees. Lullingstone, winter.
Line of trees. Lullingstone, winter.
Lullingstone, December 27
Lullingstone, December 27
Lullingstone, winter 2018. Darent Valley view
sunset Lullingstone, Kent
Lullingstone sunset
Meenfield wood
Darent Valley from Shacklands Rd footpath to Meenfield wood
Darent Valley from Shacklands Rd footpath to Meenfield wood
Fackenden Down autumn
Near Rooks Hill
Fackenden Down, Shoreham
Darent Valley above Shoreham
Darent Valley above Shoreham
Shoreham, Kent
Near Mill Lane, Shoreham, Kent.
Rye Harbour
Hut. Rye Harbour
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.
Les Rochers de Naye. The foreground view is dominate by the limestone pinnacles of the 6000ft Dent de Corjon
Cactus garden
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.
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.
Road Joshua Tree
The road to the cactus garden commands views of the Colorado desert including the eco-disaster that is the Salton Sea and settlements with picturesque names like Slab City and Bombay Beach
A variety of flora in Joshua Tree national park. One of the trees here (left, back) is a pinyon pine, once a great food source for Native Americans and still a vital part of the area's ecology. Sadly, global warming and pine bark beetles have seen the pinyon trees die off in many areas of the park
Vast thunderstorm over Bucks, seen from Chiddingstone, with cumulus congestus and cumulonimbus,Kent, May 2018
Conifers point 8-9
Chartwell from the Mariners Hill loop
Hosey Common
Hosey Common green (and car park) point 8
Looking back at conifer trail after point 8
Wilmot Hill near Stone Street
Wilmot Hill near Stone Street
View from Wilmot Hill
View from Wilmot Hill
Near Bitchet's Green, Stone Street
Near Bitchet's Green, Stone Street
Knole
Cliffe
Cliffe
Classic autumnal Kent view from Emmett's Garden
Classic autumnal Kent view from Emmett's Garden looking across Bough Beach to Chiddingstone and the Weald
Late flowering rose at Emmetts Garden
Late flowering rose at Emmetts Garden
Walk 12 near point 3
Shoreham v Sidcup Sep 1, 2017
Shoreham v Sidcup Sep 2, 2017
RSPB view
The nuke power station from the RSPB reserve, late summer 2017
RSPB view
The beach
Camber Sands and golf course
Looking west, Camber Sands
Sea buckthorn, Camber
Sea buckthorn, Camber
B17 Flying Fortress prepares to land at Biggin Hill, near Downe
B17 Flying Fortress prepares to land at Biggin Hill, near Downe
Penshurst
Hever church (St Peters)
Tulips, Emmetts Garden, Ide Hill
Tulips, Emmetts Garden. 2017, Ide Hill
Bluebells, Emmetts/Scords wood, 2017
Bluebells, Emmetts/Scords wood, 2017
Ide Hill
Weald view from Octavia Hill seat, Ide Hill
Emmetts black, red, white tulips 2017
View from Ide Hill country store
The Castle Inn, Chiddingstone
The Castle Inn, a beautiful pub in a Tudor building next to Chiddingstone Castle
Woods in early spring, Hever
Woods waking up in early spring, Hever
Near Austin Spring, winter
Larches point 2
Tree tunnel after Austin Lodge Point 4-5
Looking west to London
Romney St view
Downe near point 3 in winter
Point 3 in winter
Eynsford Lullingstone flinty field, winter
Eynsford, Lullingstone, Kent. Flinty field.
Eynsford, Lullingstone, Kent. Flinty field.
Eynsford walk. Viaduct
Eynsford walk. Viaduct
Ide Hill, view from Scord Wood in winter
Ide Hill, view from Scord Wood in winter
Near Scord Wood
Near Scord Wood, looking south east, early winter
Shetland pony, Downe
Darent valley autumn
Red Arrows
Red Arrows seen from near Downe
Red Arrows
Red Arrows seen from near Downe
Red Arrows
Red Arrows
Red Arrows
Red Arrows
River Eden and water meadows from near Penshurst
River Eden and water meadows from near Penshurst
Holloway through sandstone
Ancient 'holloway' through sandstone on the Eden Valley Path at Hill Hoath
Azaleas at Emmetts
Azaleas at Emmetts
Ice fall from cloud over Penshurst April 30, Hever walk
Thunderstorm near Hever
Thunderstorm near Hever
Storm developing west of Hever
Storm developing west of Hever
Ightam Mote
National Trust gem Ightham Mote
Dead pine, Eeyore's Gloomy Place, Ashdown Forest
Dead pine, Eeyore's Gloomy Place, Ashdown Forest
Ashdown Forest walking in Eeyore's Gloomy Place
Ashdown Forest walking in Eeyore's Gloomy Place
Gorse, Ashdown Forest
Gorse, Ashdown Forest
Heather at Gills Lap, Ashdown Forest
Heather at Gills Lap, Ashdown Forest
Sleet shower just south of Ide Hill
Sleet shower just south of Ide Hill
Deer on bumpy ground at Knole
Deer on bumpy ground at Knole
River Darent at Lullingstone
Darent river
Darent river at Lullingstone
Water feature … Darent at Shoreham
Darent and gardens, Shoreham
Fog at Scords wood
Fog at Ide Hill
Ide Hill National Trust woods
Ide Hill National Trust woods, in November 2015
Wilmots Hill near Ightham Mote
Shackland Rd, Shoreham
Mistimed walk... an autumn moon rises over the Darent Valley
On path heading down toward Ightam Mote
On path heading down toward Ightam Mote
Pickmoss cottages, Otford
16th-century Pickmoss cottages, Otford
Otford
Old shop sign in Otford
Ashdown Forest
Gill's Lap, Ashdown Forest
Red Arrows, 13/6/15 near Biggin HIll
Red Arrows, 13/6/15 near Biggin HIll
The steps down through the ancient woods, point 11
The steps up/down the ancient woods above Shoreham station Point 1-2
Bluebells on the Ide Hill walk, April 25, 2015
Bluebells on the Ide Hill walk in Scord Wood
Bluebells on the Ide Hill walk, near Emmetts Gardens, Kent
Bluebells on the Ide Hill walk, near Emmetts Gardens, Kent
Wildflowers in spring, One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks
Wood anenomes, early spring, One Tree Hill, Sevenoaks
Pine woods, eastern Knole
Pine woods, eastern Knole
Lullingstone and castle
Lullingstone and castle, summer
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