to Ashford WALK oad en R Biddend 6 A28 e n a 4 L s n o t r o N Children’s Farm London Trail Information Beach Brook Golf Club Farm N R ea 5 de rs 7 Br id g e READERS R d BRIDGE Silcocks 4 Honour Farm Farm 9 This walk is to the north of 8 Tenterden, with magnificent Pott’s views of the town and the Wood Weald of Kent to the south. Coombe Farm Distance: 5 miles (8km). Pott’s Farm Time for walk: 3 2½ hours. Maps: Chennell Park Pittlesden OS Explorer 125 & 137. Manor Farm Start of walk: Watermill Tenterden Tenterden Town 2 Tenterden Gateway, House B2080 to Appledore Station 2 Manor Row, High Street, Railway ssex Tenterden. TQ881332 st Su & Ea Kent Terrain: 1 Well marked field paths and A28 tracks. Quiet lanes. START/FINISH Suitable for: Rolvenden B2082 Moderately fit adults and Station children. Refreshment: to Rolvenden Public houses and cafés in Tenterden. Parking: Walks around Tenterden Bridewell Lane TQ882331. Public Toilets: Station Road (opposite car 1 From Tenterden Gateway walk in an Continue with a fence and trees to park). easterly direction, towards Ashford. your right and the power line to your left. Public Transport: Turn left, down Station Road, cross the Pass through a gate and continue, now Buses: Traveline - railway crossing at Tenterden Town Station with a hedge to your left. Pass through 0870 6082608. and enter the station car park. Maintain a kissing-gate and keep to the right of a direction to reach a kissing-gate at the far small pond. end of the car park. Continue with the hedge to your left to the far end of the field to reach a field 2 Pass through the kissing-gate and gate with a kissing-gate to the right. follow the line of the overhead electric Pass through the kissing-gate and keep power lines downhill. ahead, now with a hedge to your right, Pass through a gate, where there is a to pass through another kissing gate, by a bridge over a stream, and continue uphill field gate. to a kissing-gate. Continue along the enclosed track, beside Breton Court, to reach a gate 3 At this point there are two marked leading on to a metalled road. At this paths – take the one that is straight ahead. point you are in St. Michaels. Walk Card 4 Moded.indd 1 9/3/09 12:56:00 WALK 4 Turn left, uphill, then turn right at a 7 Climb the steps in the bank and follow road junction into Shoreham Lane. a path that runs between a hedge and a Continue on Shoreham Lane for fence to reach a stile. approx. 50m/55yds then turn left onto a Cross the stile and continue with a 4 driveway (the start of a footpath) flanked fence, then a hedge to your left, to pass by two telegraph poles on the left-hand through a kissing-gate. Keep ahead to a side and a large oak tree on the right. another kissing-gate and join a metalled Follow a track between two houses road. and, where the track bears left, keep Trail Information ahead, between hedges, to reach a stile. 8 Go left towards Silcocks Farm and farm Cross the stile and keep ahead, shop next to the junction with Readers towards the London Beach Golf Club, to Bridge Road. cross a footbridge over a stream. 9 Go right, into the field opposite Public Rights of Way 5 You then enter the golf course via Readers Bridge Road, passing though a All walks have legal access some steps and a stile. Take care here kissing-gate. After 15m/16yds bear right, to land using public paths and show consideration to golfers. through another kissing-gate. and bridleways. Walkers Cross the stile and go right. Continue Head across the field to a gate into should take care to stick across a fairway then maintain direction the field opposite. Keeping the hedge to to the correct paths and across another fairway to cross a stile next your left, continue down the field, passing ensure that dogs are kept to an oak tree. a field gate to reach a kissing-gate in the under close control. Cross a footbridge and continue hedge. through a small plantation to cross Pass through the kissing-gate and go Equipment and Clothing another stile. Follow the direction of the right. Pass through a kissing-gate and Walking boots or shoes are yellow arrow, bearing slightly right across continue, with a pond to your left, to recommended for all walks the field to a gap in the hedge, then cross reach another kissing-gate. and protective clothing a muddy stream to a stile. Keeping the hedge to your right, should also be carried. Cross the stile, and another in the descend a slope to a wooden walkway Country Code opposite corner of the field, to enter and a stile. Please adhere to the woodland. Almost immediately turn right Continue to another fenced pond, with country code. at a marker-post to reach a stile. two more kissing-gates, and follow the - Do not drop litter. Cross the stile and follow the path, path to reach a further kissing-gate, with - Do not pick flowers and keeping the wood to your right, to cross a pond to your right. plants. another stile. Pass through the gate and head - Face oncoming traffic on Keep ahead and, at a pond, go right to diagonally across the field, in the direction country lanes (except on cross a stile. Turn left, keeping the pond of the tower of St. Mildred’s Church. blind bends where the and farm buildings to your left. Pass through a kissing-gate in the outside should be taken At a stile, keep ahead towards a house, corner of the field and keep ahead, to ensure that traffic in passing a pond to your right and crossing downhill, to pass through a gate and cross both directions can see a stile. Keep ahead to a field gate and a bridge. you). stile, leading onto Norton’s Lane. Climb a steep bank ahead and - Do not start fires. continue uphill, following a row of power - Fasten all gates. 6 Turn left and continue for approx. lines, to reach a kissing-gate at the top of - Use gates and stiles to ½ mile/0.80km to reach a T-junction, then the field. cross fences, hedges and turn left into Readers Bridge Road. Pass through the gate into the Kent walls. After approx. ¼ mile/0.40km the road & East Sussex Railway car park, and keep - Do not make unnecessary crosses a stream at Readers Bridge. ahead, to Tenterden Station. noise. Continue for approx. 50m/55yds and Continue up Station Road to reach the look for a footpath sign and marker High Street then go right to return to the Some of the walks use stone on the right-hand side. Tenterden Gateway. footpaths that cross the Kent & East Sussex Railway at designated points. Please stop, follow any instructions shown at the crossing points, and proceed with care. Walk Card 4 Moded.indd 2 9/3/09 12:56:03.