Time Out Country Walks near London Volume 1
Walk 21 : Leigh to Sevenoaks
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Just a comment on the updates for Leigh to Sevenoaks: The first 2 comments relating to the 2006 edition dated July 06 (general & busy road) are duplicated with an August 06 date. The remaining comment relating to the 2005 edition covers the identical point but with less detail. It would be nice if these were all tidied up to 1 set of instructions with the page references given for both editions as it's a bit confusing at present.
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We walked this 8 Sept 2007. Jill & Dominique
Between section 4 and 5 of the walk after going over the stream and through the gate the following has changed: continue straight on for 120 m accross a field to a fieldgate slightly to your left. Once through the gate continue straight on for 250m exiting this field left of centre of the field by a stile right of a fieldgate (there is a yellow footpath marker on the gate). In 10m go over a wooden bridge to cross a stream and half right follow the earth path past a sand-floored horse training ground on your left and grazing area to your right heading for a metal kissing gate in the far right corner of this field. Exit the field through this kissing gate and turn half left to follow the path out of the riding school, keeping the stables/barns to your left and the riding school offices to your right for 75m. The path then bends right, follow this and you find yourself on the driveway of Brambles House referred to at the end of the 1st para, 2nd column, page 173 of Ebury press 2005 edition. Between section 5 & 6 note: In the 4th para after section 5 starts, at the end of the italicised text, there is no longer a footpath which carries straight on as the farm track turns right. A business estate has been built behind the farm and there is a wire fence which cuts across what would have been the footpath. You can go around this to go straight ahead and onto a drive. In 25m turn right onto a road and in 165m you come across the car road to the right signed to Shipbourne referred to at the beginning of the 2nd para, 1st column, page 174 of the Ebury press 2005 edition. We went to the recommended lunch stop, the White Rock. The food as good but they were not very welcoming, almost rude. The pub seems clean but when we asked them to clean the table of sald left by the previous diners, the waiter picked it up the salad and dropped it on the floor. |
| Older Updates | Edition | Date | Page | Location | Update |
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| red | The public footpath concrete marker in the ground (page 167, column 2, 15th line down) has been replaced by a footpath sign on a post. | ||||
| 2006 | Jul-06 | general | Throughout the morning of this walk, stiles have disappeared, or been replaced by kissing gates, and in one or two cases, side paths mentioned in the text seem to have become so completely overgrown as to disappear. At another point, a farm track mentioned in the text is now a normal ploughed field. However, the route itself is still as described. The best advice, therefore, is to not put too much store by exact details of stiles or footpath posts, but follow the general spirit of the directions (turn left, cross a field, etc). It does work, even if the detail does not. | ||
| 2006 | Jul-06 | Busy Road | Note also that the unpleasant crossing of the A21 between point [3] and [4] can be easily avoided. On page 172 (2005 Ebury Press reprint), column two, para two, ignore the footpath to the left once you are on the road, and stay on the road to a T-junction: turn left here, crossing the A21 on a bridge, and then at another T-junction going left. Ignore a road to the right fairly shortly after this, and carry on, past Oak Tree Farm on your left, up to the B245. Go left here and then in 40 metres right onto a minor road. This is the Mill Lane mentioned at the top of page 173, column one, end of first para | ||
| 2006 | Aug-06 | General | Throughout the morning of this walk, stiles have disappeared, or been replaced by kissing gates, and in one or two cases, side paths mentioned in the text seem to have become so completely overgrown as to disappear. At another point, a farm track mentioned in the text is now a normal ploughed field. However, the route itself is still as described. The best advice, therefore, is to not put too much store by exact details of stiles or footpath posts, but follow the general spirit of the directions (turn left, cross a field, etc). It does work, even if the detail does not. | ||
| 2006 | Aug-06 | Busy Road | Note also that the unpleasant crossing of the A21 between point [3] and [4] can be easily avoided. On page 172 (2005 Ebury Press reprint), column two, para two, ignore the footpath to the left once you are on the road, and stay on the road to a T-junction: turn left here, crossing the A21 on a bridge, and then at another T-junction going left. Ignore a road to the right fairly shortly after this, and carry on, past Oak Tree Farm on your left, up to the B245. Go left here and then in 40 metres right onto a minor road. This is the Mill Lane mentioned at the top of page 173, column one, end of first para | ||
| red | 163 | shortening the walk | There are rare buses (eg 1.30pm Saturdays) from the lunchtime pub in Underriver to Tonbridge Station (or vice versa - given that the second part of the walk is more interesting) or there is a 308 bus from Knole House to Sevenoaks station. | ||
| 2005 | 166 | col 2, para 1 | At Homefarm Oast, one suggestion is that you go further south east along this minor road, (instead of turning east off this road earlier to cross fields) t.o use the road bridge over the busy A21 "motorway". This would be a detour of about 1 km | ||
| red | 167 | col 2, para 3 onwards | Lots of fences and stiles are missing at present. So is the caravan park in the last para, page 167. In the next sentence, you go half left, following the mini-pylons westwards for 150 metres, then go right, with the hedge to your left-hand side, and exit the field to your left in a further 150 metres, down to the road. |
