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Walks in East Kent Ages to Take on the Walk Can Be Road Map: Ordered by Emailing When You’Re out Walking Multimap Website Explorekent@Kent.Gov.Uk This circular walk is one of a number of walks produced by Photo Guide Kent County Council. If you liked this walk you can find more Walk Overview on the Explore Kent website at Distance: 4 miles (6.4km) allow 3 hours www.kent.gov.uk/explorekent Start/Finish: ‘Gateway to the White Cliffs’ We welcome any feedback about this walk or the content visitor centre of the guide. If you know of a good walk and would like to share it, please let us know and we may feature it on our Stiles: 1 website. Gates: 1 (also a flight of steps) 1 2 3 If the route description or pictures are out-of-date please e-mail [email protected] Terrain: Cliff top paths and tracks. Undulating with some short, steep slopes Please tell us about any problems concerning the paths using the Kent Report Line 0845 345 0210. Views: Some excellent views This guide is available in other formats on request. Toilets: At visitor centre FAMILY FUN! Refreshments: At visitor centre Walking is not only a healthy activity but it can be fun and 4 5 6 informative too. Free activity How to get there... worksheets for children of all Walks in East Kent ages to take on the walk can be Road Map: ordered by emailing When you’re out walking Multimap website [email protected] www.multimap.com. in the countryside, or calling Enter postcode CT16 1HJ please respect the 08458 247600. Countryside Code. By Car: From A2 – follow signs for Dover Castle from roundabout on 4 miles (6.4km) approx. 8,000 steps to A258 (Castle Hill Road), turn left in to Upper Road. From M20 and Dover - follow signs for Dover Allow 3 hours • Be safe – plan ahead Castle on to A258 (Castle Hill Road), turn right into Upper Road. About the walk... FOOTPATH and follow any arrows or Experience some fantastic views along the high signs Parking: Car parking is available at the ‘Gateway to the White chalk cliffs at the edge of the North Downs which Cliffs’ visitor centre. There is a charge payable for parking • Leave gates and property – please observe signs. Note: Car park closes later in summer. form part of the famous White Cliffs of Dover. as you find them BRIDLEWAY Starting at the entrance to the White Cliffs Visitor Centre, the marked route follows around Langdon Protect plants and Train: Nearest station – Dover Priory (2 miles). National Rail • Enquiries: 08457 484950 Hole and Fan Point towards South Foreland animals, and take your BYWAY Lighthouse. Built in 1843 to mark dangerous litter home Bus: 15/15X (Canterbury – Deal) hourly, Mon-Sat. 2 hourly, Sun. offshore banks and also used by Marconi for the first • Keep dogs under close Traveline: 0870 6082608 successful trials in radio navigation, the Lighthouse control RESTRICTED is open to the public between April and October. • Consider other people BYWAY For guidance only, actual conditions encountered may be different to what is shown depending on weather and time of year. www.kent.gov.uk/explorekent 03/2007 © Crown copyright reserved. Kent County Council licence number 100019238. May 2005 Route Description Langdon Hole After passing through the kissing gate there Walk your way to a Safety on the Cliffs are a number of narrow paths that can be healthier lifestyle 3 Please keep away from the cliff edge. Take special followed as you walk downhill with a number care with children and dogs. of benches if a rest is required. “Walking for one mile burns virtually the same number of calories as jogging for one mile, it just takes a little longer!” Visitor Centre to Langdon Hole 3 After 150 metres head down a long flight of steps. From here follow waymarkers for about The ‘Gateway to the White Cliffs’ visitor centre “Walking is FREE and requires no special equipment introduces you to five miles of coast and 300 metres around Langdon hole. This section or clothing – as long as you are comfortable” countryside through imaginative displays and of undulating path has some short steep interpretation. Admission is free. Refreshments gradients, and can become narrow in places. “Regular walking helps reduce the risk of heart disease, strokes, diabetes and high blood pressure” and toilets are available. Take care: The sections of bare earth and 5 The National Trust offer a guided walk from the bedrock can be very slippery when wet. 6 6 Nearing the end of the outward part of the visitor centre to the lighthouse between walk the route bends inland up a moderate April - October. 4 After walking around Langdon Hole, cross over 3 ] a stile where you can enjoy some stunning gradient along the edge of some farm views across the white cliffs. land before going through a gap. Here you 1 With the visitor centre on your left, follow the have the option to visit the fantastic South wide surfaced path up a slight incline. Foreland Lighthouse before retracing your Proceed for approximately 200 metres and Cliff top path to South Foreland Lighthouse 1 4 steps back along the cliffs to the visitor then go through a narrow gap. From here all the way to South Foreland Lighthouse (approx. 2km) the path winds centre where you started. From here bear slightly left at the milestone its way along the top of the white cliffs. 2 The Lighthouse is maintained by the National and waymarker to walk along a grassy path Throughout this long section gradients Trust and is open from April-October. There is that goes up a long moderate slope for around are generally slight to moderate. There are an admission charge to the lighthouse: 300 metres. (You can also take the surfaced multiple paths that can be walked, but these all path on the right which becomes grassy and tend to follow the same direction. Adult £4, Child £2 (correct as of March 2007). links up to the main path). 5 At Fan Point, the path runs alongside some National Trust members: free with membership farm land. There are good views of Fan Bay card. 2 At the top of the hill go through kissing gate. Along this section you can admire excellent below. Call 01304 852463 to check opening times views across the White Cliffs and Langdon before your visit. Hole. Along this section there are also numerous viewpoints across the English Channel and to France beyond. 0.5 1 Kilometres ] Also use Ordnance Survey Map: Explorer 138 0 Miles Take care Stile Gate View South Foreland Circular Walk www.kent.gov.uk/explorekent N 0.5 © Crown copyright reserved. Kent County Council licence number 100019238. May 2005 Route Description Langdon Hole After passing through the kissing gate there Walk your way to a Safety on the Cliffs are a number of narrow paths that can be healthier lifestyle 3 Please keep away from the cliff edge. Take special followed as you walk downhill with a number care with children and dogs. of benches if a rest is required. “Walking for one mile burns virtually the same number of calories as jogging for one mile, it just takes a little longer!” Visitor Centre to Langdon Hole 3 After 150 metres head down a long flight of steps. From here follow waymarkers for about The ‘Gateway to the White Cliffs’ visitor centre “Walking is FREE and requires no special equipment introduces you to five miles of coast and 300 metres around Langdon hole. This section or clothing – as long as you are comfortable” countryside through imaginative displays and of undulating path has some short steep interpretation. Admission is free. Refreshments gradients, and can become narrow in places. “Regular walking helps reduce the risk of heart disease, strokes, diabetes and high blood pressure” and toilets are available. Take care: The sections of bare earth and 5 The National Trust offer a guided walk from the bedrock can be very slippery when wet. 6 6 Nearing the end of the outward part of the visitor centre to the lighthouse between walk the route bends inland up a moderate April - October. 4 After walking around Langdon Hole, cross over 3 ] a stile where you can enjoy some stunning gradient along the edge of some farm views across the white cliffs. land before going through a gap. Here you 1 With the visitor centre on your left, follow the have the option to visit the fantastic South wide surfaced path up a slight incline. Foreland Lighthouse before retracing your Proceed for approximately 200 metres and Cliff top path to South Foreland Lighthouse 1 4 steps back along the cliffs to the visitor then go through a narrow gap. From here all the way to South Foreland Lighthouse (approx. 2km) the path winds centre where you started. From here bear slightly left at the milestone its way along the top of the white cliffs. 2 The Lighthouse is maintained by the National and waymarker to walk along a grassy path Throughout this long section gradients Trust and is open from April-October. There is that goes up a long moderate slope for around are generally slight to moderate. There are an admission charge to the lighthouse: 300 metres. (You can also take the surfaced multiple paths that can be walked, but these all path on the right which becomes grassy and tend to follow the same direction. Adult £4, Child £2 (correct as of March 2007). links up to the main path). 5 At Fan Point, the path runs alongside some National Trust members: free with membership farm land. There are good views of Fan Bay card.
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