Walks from Borough Green & Wrotham
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Borough Green & Wrotham Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Borough Green & Wrotham by train.
Borough Green & Wrotham to Sevenoaks
Highly recommended: Greensand hills, apple orchards, woodland paths, streams, deer park, open parkland and historic manor grounds. Mostly secluded.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Ightham Mote: Immaculately preserved medieval manor house with idyllic gardens. Touring the house thoroughly takes an hour, and the gardens another 30 minutes (National Trust; 2h in; 2h30 to visit).
One Tree Hill: A beautiful slice of Kent countryside (National Trust; 2h45 in).
Knole House: enormous aristocratic estate, associated with the Bloomsbury Group; well worth a visit but consumes a day in itself (National Trust; 3h30 in; 3h to visit).
Knole Park (National Trust; 3h to visit)
3 lunch spots: the Plough (45 mins in), Ightham Mote café (2h in), or Knole House café (3h30 in)
3 end-of-walk rewards: the Chequers, the Restoration, or the Sennockian
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Adapted from: The Rough Guide to Walks in London & the South East (3rd edition).
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Borough Green & Wrotham Circular via Old Soar Manor
Old Soar Manor: Remains of a late 13th-century knight's dwelling (National Trust; 2h15 in; 30 mins to visit).
1 lunch spot: the Kentish Rifleman (1h45 in)
1 end-of-walk reward: the Plough
Source: Trains2Green.
Yalding to Borough Green & Wrotham
River Medway start, open fields, deer-fenced woodland, Kentish Weald countryside, vast managed woods, bluebell woodland valleys, orchard edges and small villages.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).