Walk 26: Underriver and Budds
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Walk 26: Underriver and Budds ½ a mile START (car park) Sevenoaks (2km) Knole (1km) One Tree Hill Wilmot Cottage Ightham Mote Kettleshill Farm 2 Rooks Hill Carter’s Hill Water Lane Underriver House Rd A21 Pilots Woods Filston Farm Underriver Underriver6 House Budds 1 8 START 5 Fantastic views across the Kent Weald, a superb wooded sandstone7 escarpment, myriad springs and Romshed Farm characterful oasthouses. A brilliant walk. More details ▲ N of route on the webpage… this is the summarised edit How long?2 hours/5 miles fences in it. Still heading west. Point 4-5 (1km) Turn left uphill Road and a hamlet called Budds or Public transport: Nearest stations, Pass a solar panel array to the and soon after the house you will sometimes Budds Green. Hildenborough, Sevenoaks right of you and through the see the path on the right, heading Parking: Underriver village or horsey field. Keep following the east. Take this path through woods Point 7-8 (1.2km) Turn right at One Tree Hill NT yellow-tipped poles. Over another (note path from the One Tree Hill Budds across the green and look Steep slopes? Moderate stile and go along a larger sheep car park soon joining you from for the path heading roughly west between points 3 and 5 field with trees on the right. Ahead, the left). After 200 metres you (on the right) by the near-side of Pub: White Rock Inn, check open in George’s Shaw woodland, at a reach a glade with a view over the the large house. This path will take Distance from SE London: T-junction, we change direction: Weald to the south. Continue on us all the way back to Underriver. 24 miles (50mins by car) turn right (north-east) and follow the path eastward, keeping the Walk past a swamp on a kind of See OS Explorer 147 map this enjoyable broad path, now steep escarpment cliff on your wooden boardwalk and come out Click here for GPX map with Romshed Farm below and immediate right. Turn right as you in a field. Continue on this path to the right (south). After nearly reach an orchard and descend straight, ignoring the farm track THE WALK a kilometre you pass a lovely gradually in woodland with the off to the left. Tractor tracks mark Point 1-2 (900 metres) After pond on the left. When you reach ‘cliff’ just to the right. As the path the correct path which is nearly parking in Underriver take the a tarmac lane take the right fork descends, you’ll come to a beech dead straight ahead. In the next SR158 footpath heading west and go past the front of the Coach growing out of the side of the field look for the yellow path almost opposite Underriver’s House. Next you’ll see Vineyard ridge. Soon after this you descend marker up by the barns. You may church – actually directly opposite Cottage to the right and then the steeply to Rooks Hill lane. glimpse the chimneys of grand a cottage with ‘1891’ written on track bends left (northerly) and Underriver House up ahead. Walk it. Cross over a stile into a tiny you’re at Kettleshill Farm and its Point 5-6 (900 metres) Turn right alongside a small wood (Ducks recreation field adjacent to the superb oasthouses (Point 3). on Rooks Hill and walk a few Grove) on the right and follow the village hall then follow the path metres downhill on the lane before path as it turns sharp right by yet west into woods briefly then to Point 3-4 (1km) Walk past the resuming east on the footpath - another spring stream and you’ll the left past fields to organic oasthouses then turn sharp left signposted the Greensand Way go past a kind of lawn then come Romshed Farm. Many of the farms (north) on to a sunken path going on your left. After a few hundred out by some cottages. Follow the on this route are positioned to take uphill (very muddy in winter). metres you pass an Ightham Mote path to the left as it joins a lane advantage of springs. Look out for Nearing the top turn off sharply to estate sign – a superb section. serving attractive cottages. The the yellow-tipped posts showing the right (east) through a gate and Continue east, then descend some path here now joins a country road walkers the way. As you get to the follow the edge of a sloping south- steps to reach Wilmot Cottage. (Underriver House Road) at Point 8. farm one rickety stile somewhat facing grassy field with a barbed hidden behind metal cage structure wire-topped fence on your right Point 6-7 (900 metres) In front Point 8-9 (1km) Turn right (north close to barns marks Point 2. and lovely Weald view beyond. of Wilmot cottage turn right on west) up the lane then soon left Point 2-3 (1.9km) Cross the stile After half a mile or so the path the path heading downhill south. over a stile into fields. Follow the then a farm track and enter a horse comes out on Carter’s Hill opposite Sadly, the fields at the bottom can obvious path through five fields paddock field with some equestrian a house – Point 4. be very barren. Soon, reach Mote back to Underriver visible ahead. kentwalksnearlondon.com.