Blooming all over the Downs

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Overview

Expect a colourful walk through orchard fields, bluebell woods and sweeping hills and valleys in the Kent Downs. Passing through Luddesdown, Whitehorse Wood, Holly Hill, Cobham Park and Darnley Mausoleum. We will spend about an hour for lunch at the Moot Brewery and Taproom near Halling. Walk ends at a pub in the village of Cobham. The station at the end is just a mile away.

Please bring a packed lunch.

Travel: Take 9:42 from London Victoria, (10:05 Bromley South), arr. Sole Street 10:31.

Saturday, 9 May 2026

Start time:: 10:35 am
Estimated finish time:: 6:00 pm

Difficulty:: Strenuous
Distance:: 25.7km / 16.0mi
Ascent:: 511.8m / 1679ft
Type:: circular

Starting point

Grid reference:: TQ 65584 67594
Nearest postcode:: DA13 0XY
what3words:: wiped.united.year

Start time:: 10:35 am

Sole Street Station

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