The new Walk 21 a shorter version of Walk 15, starting up the road from Westerham at the free car park at Hosey Common. It includes a lovely stretch by the stream of the Darent soon after its emergence as a spring. If you don’t drive it’s easiest to get to Westerham on the 246 bus which connects the town with Bromley, Hayes and Keston. You can then join this walk between points 8 and 9 having started it from the green at Westerham (as per Walk 15). There’s a GPS map link included.
The route is about a mile shorter than Walk 15 (3.9 miles as opposed to 5 miles) but has the same great views at Chartwell and Mariners Hill. Kent Wildlife Trust has a great resource if you really want to get down and dirty with the trees, species, geology and topography of the area. The walk is part of the Greensand Ridge… so a companion to routes on this site at Ide Hill, Ightham Mote, One Tree Hill and Knole (see menu, top). There are so many paths that with a map it’s easy to customise the walks to your own requirements, but I think this route captures the best of the area’s great woods, views and valleys.
Lovely walk. Please change name of Gardeners Cottage and The Coach House as both are wrong and it is very confusing.
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Hi Susan, thanks for doing the walk and alerting me to the confusion. I’ll look into the names of the houses. That’s how they are marked on the Ordnance Survey map but I see there are other buildings unnamed on the maps so it might be the Coach House and Gardeners Cottage are these other buildings. I’ll have to check it out. You’re the first person to mention it. Best.
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