Walks you can reach from Chilham by train
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Ramsgate to Margate (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Chilham.
Recommended: Low chalk cliffs, sandy bays and coves, cliff-top grassland, seaside promenades and historic coastal towns.
Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.
Kingsgate Bay: A chalk-cliff cove on the Thanet coast near Broadstairs, framed by a natural sea arch.
Time: 4h30–9h
2 lunch spots: the Royal Victoria Pavilion (30m–1h30 in), or Forts Café (1h30–3h30 in)
2 end-of-walk rewards: the Mechanical Elephant, or the Cinque Ports
Warnings: Very popular and busy. Check tide timings.
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walks: the Saturday Walkers Club and Walking Post (inc. GPX).
Paddock Wood to Yalding (Kent)
45 minutes direct from Chilham.
Flat flood plain, riverside meadows, tree-lined field edges, mixed woods, open countryside, village streets and gentle Greensand Ridge slopes.
Time: 4h
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Tonbridge to Penshurst (Kent)
1 hour direct from Chilham.
Fairly flat walk along shaded paths through fields and riverside woodland alongside the River Medway.
Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.
The Tonbridge Castle: A Norman motte-and-bailey castle with a 13th-century gatehouse beside the Medway.
The Haysden Country Park: A lakeside country park on the River Medway floodplain near Tonbridge.
River Medway at Ensfield Bridge: Meadow-set river spot suitable for wild swimming and picnics.
St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst: Historic village church next to Penshurst Place.
Time: 3h30–7h
1 lunch spot: Porcupine Pantry Café
Warnings: Can be muddy in places when wet.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Similar walk: the Saturday Walkers Club.
Sandling to Wye (Kent)
6 minutes direct from Chilham.
North Downs escarpment ridge, open downland, woods, sloping fields and fine views over Kent coast.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Wye Circular via Crown Memorial (Kent)
6 minutes direct from Chilham.
North Downs escarpments, chalk downland, beech and chestnut woods, open fields, riverbank along Great Stour, churchyard and farmland.
Time: 5h
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Pluckley Circular via Dering windows (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Chilham.
Flat Low Weald farmland, orchards, quiet lanes, ancient pubs, quaint Kent villages and a fine viewpoint near Pluckley.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Tonbridge Circular via Tudeley (Kent)
1 hour direct from Chilham.
Parkland, farm fields, paddocks, orchards, country park, riverside paths, residential streets and fishing and sailing lakes.
Time: 4h30
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Chartham to Canterbury West (Kent)
4 minutes direct from Chilham.
Apple orchards, a chalk stream and a cathedral, along the River Stour and the North Downs Way past No Man's Orchard into Canterbury.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
No Man's Orchard: A community orchard of mature fruit trees alongside the North Downs Way.
Time: 3h–6h
Warnings: Orchard paths can be muddy; busy road section on the A28.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Pluckley to Ashford International (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Chilham.
Pastures, orchards, woods, commons, bogs, parkland estate and riverside parks into a town centre.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Staplehurst to Headcorn (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Chilham.
Fields, low-lying farmland, bluebell woods and Kentish Weald villages.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Harrietsham to Pluckley (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Chilham.
Gentle ridge, apple orchards, pasture, escarpment views, bluebell woods, Kentish farmland and churches attached to farms and manor houses.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Hever to Tonbridge (Kent)
1 hour direct from Chilham.
Gentle farmland, orchards, river valleys, parkland, country park lakes and riverside paths into a market town.
Time: 3h30
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).