Walks you can reach from Aylesford by train
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Yalding to Sevenoaks (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Highly recommended: Undulating Kent farmland, orchards, bluebell woods, greensand escarpment and deer park.
Ightham Mote: Immaculately preserved medieval manor house with idyllic gardens. Touring the house thoroughly takes an hour, and the gardens another 30 minutes (3h30 in).
One Tree Hill (National Trust; 4h15 in)
The Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio (National Trust; 5h in)
Knole House: enormous aristocratic estate, associated with the Bloomsbury Group; well worth a visit but consumes a day in itself.
Time: 7h30 (6h walking, 1h30 lunch)
3 lunch spots: the Swan on the Green (1h30 in), the Kentish Rifleman (2h30 in), or Ightham Mote café (3h30 in; not bad)
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Yalding Circular via Yalding (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Flat riverside paths, farmland fields, orchards, quiet lanes and a floodplain.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Yalding to Borough Green & Wrotham (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Aylesford.
River Medway start, open fields, deer-fenced woodland, Kentish Weald countryside, vast managed woods, bluebell woodland valleys, orchard edges and small villages.
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Yalding to Wateringbury (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Rolling upper Medway Valley — woodland, wetland, orchards and farmland, two historic river bridges and old hoppers' huts on the Greensand Way.
Yalding Bridge (Town Bridge): A medieval ragstone bridge across the River Beult, said to be the longest medieval bridge in Kent.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Five stiles.
Walk details: Explore Kent (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Paddock Wood to Yalding (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Flat flood plain, riverside meadows, tree-lined field edges, mixed woods, open countryside, village streets and gentle Greensand Ridge slopes.
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Otford to Snodland (Kent)
5 minutes direct from Aylesford.
North Downs ridge, southern escarpment, fields, woods, open views south, forest, country park, open countryside and urban streets.
Time: 7h (5h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Cuxton Circular via Ranscombe Farm Reserve (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Chalk grassland, orchid-rich fields and woodland in Ranscombe Farm reserve, the neoclassical Darnley Mausoleum and the North Downs Way.
Ranscombe Farm Reserve: A 560-acre combined nature reserve and working farm in the Kent Downs AONB, nationally renowned for its rare arable wildflowers and orchid-rich chalk grassland.
Darnley Mausoleum: A Grade I listed neoclassical mausoleum designed by James Wyatt in 1783 for the Earls of Darnley, set in woodland on the Downs.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Explore Kent (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Wateringbury Circular via Teston Lock (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Aylesford.
River Medway valley, riverside paths, low hills, orchard country, country lanes, water meadows and woodland.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Snodland to Sole Street (Kent)
5 minutes direct from Aylesford.
North Downs, wooded areas, open fields, hilly sections, pastoral valleys and organic farmland.
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Nettles in summer.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Halling to Cuxton (Kent)
9 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Riverside Medway marsh, scarp-top beech and yew woodland on the North Downs Way, and lower-valley farmland, with the Bishop's Palace wall.
All Saints' Church, Wouldham: A riverside church on the far bank of the Medway whose origins date back to 1058.
The Bishop's Palace, Halling: The surviving wall of a palace built in 1086 by Bishop Gundulph that housed the Bishops of Rochester until 1535.
Ranscombe Farm Reserve: A 560-acre combined nature reserve and working farm in the Kent Downs AONB, nationally renowned for its rare arable wildflowers and orchid-rich chalk grassland.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Muddy and steep in places; three stiles, two flights of steps, and a short stretch of road with no pavement.
Walk details: Explore Kent (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Cuxton to Sole Street (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Open downland views, wooded ridge, bluebell woods, organic vineyard, scenic ridges and village churchyards.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Some strenuous climbs.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
East Malling to Maidstone (Kent)
5 minutes direct from Aylesford.
Orchards, coppiced woodland, water meadows, riverside paths, low hills and pedestrianised town centre.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).