Walks you can reach from Borough Green & Wrotham by train

Highly recommended: Quiet country lanes, meadows, rolling wooded hills, and two very attractive villages.

Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.

Shoreham

Otford

Time: 4h–7h30

3 lunch spots: Shoreham (1h30–2h30 in) — the Samuel Palmer, the Kings Arms, or the Mount Vineyard

3 end-of-walk rewards: the Crown, the Bull, or the Woodman

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Adapted from: Time Out Country Walks Volume 1.

Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.

Highly recommended

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Canterbury

Chilham

Time: 4h30–9h

2 lunch spots: the Flying Horse (2h–3h30 in), or Perry Court Tea Room (2h–3h30 in)

3 end-of-walk rewards: the Chilham Square, the White Horse, Chilham, or the Woolpack Inn, Chilham

Warnings: Penultimate section of the Pilgrim's Way to Canterbury.

Adapted from: The Rough Guide to Walks in London & the South East (3rd edition).

River valley, open fields, orchards, beech woods, golf course, ridge path and historic villages.

Time: 4h

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Reverse direction: Kent Downs National Landscape.

North Downs ridge, southern escarpment, fields, woods, open views south, forest, country park, open countryside and urban streets.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Linear Darent valley sides on the North Downs Way and Darent Valley Path: three nature reserves including Lullingstone Country Park and Polhill Bank, panoramic Kent Downs views.

Otford

Time: 4h30–9h30

Walk details: Kent Downs National Landscape (tips, photos and local insights).

Similar walk: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Linear walk into the Darent Valley countryside, with breathtaking views, Lullingstone Roman Villa, the Eynsford Viaduct and the village's humpback bridge and ford.

Walk details: Kent Downs National Landscape (tips, photos and local insights).

North Downs footpaths, little-used field paths, rape seed fields and woods.

Time: 4h30

Warnings: Can be overgrown.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

A National Trust extravaganza; Knole House and deer park, the Greensand Way, moated Ightham Mote, bluebell woods.

Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.

Knole House: enormous aristocratic estate, associated with the Bloomsbury Group; well worth a visit but consumes a day in itself.

Ightham Mote: A medieval moated manor house dating to 1340, cared for by the National Trust.

Time: 4h–8h

Warnings: Steep drops and climbs through the woodland sections.

Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).

Wooded hills, steep ridges, hidden downland valley, bluebell woods, beech and sweet chestnut woodland and fields.

Warnings: Descents can be slippery.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Ancient woodland, field edges, riverside Darent Valley Path, low hills, chalk downland, quaint villages, golf course and nature reserves.

Time: 5h

Warnings: Motocross path closures possible.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Orchards, coppiced woodland, water meadows, low hills, river valley, parkland and market town.

Time: 5h

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Darent Valley circular with panoramic views, the UK's largest lavender farm at Castle Farm (June/July), 500-year-old veteran trees at Lullingstone Country Park, a Roman villa and a castle.

Walk details: Kent Downs National Landscape (tips, photos and local insights).