Walks you can reach from Cuxton by train
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Yalding to Sevenoaks (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Cuxton.
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 Cuxton.
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 Cuxton.
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 Cuxton.
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)
45 minutes direct from Cuxton.
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)
6 minutes direct from Cuxton.
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).
Aylesford Circular via Aylesford Priory (The Friars) (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Cuxton.
River Medway, a medieval Carmelite priory, old chalk quarries, North Downs views and the Neolithic tomb of Kit's Coty House.
Aylesford Priory (The Friars): A medieval Carmelite priory beside the River Medway, founded in 1242 and restored as a working friary and retreat centre.
Kit's Coty House: A Neolithic chambered long-barrow burial monument on the North Downs, built roughly 6,000 years ago.
Cobtree Manor Park: A country park on the slopes above the Medway occupying the former site of Maidstone Zoo.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Explore Kent (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Wateringbury Circular via Teston Lock (Kent)
30 minutes direct from Cuxton.
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)
6 minutes direct from Cuxton.
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).
Aylesford to Maidstone (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Cuxton.
River meadows, chalk downland, wooded North Downs escarpment, open hilltop, farmland, riverside towpath and country park.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
East Malling to Maidstone (Kent)
15 minutes direct from Cuxton.
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).
Tunbridge Wells to Paddock Wood (Kent)
45 minutes direct from Cuxton.
Recommended: A varied countryside route with woodland paths (some with boardwalks), tracks past orchards and oast houses, quiet lanes and field-side paths, with some steeper up-and-down slopes through woods around Matfield. Includes a scramble through high bracken and chopped-back brambles and a winding lane cut into a hillside; valleys can carry streams in winter. Can be broken at Pembury, which has buses through the village.
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: Two pubs and a restaurant at Matfield, roughly mid-route. Pub, hotel and chippy at Pembury green.
Warnings: A short scramble through very high bracken and brambles south of Pembury - long sleeves advised. A farmyard section where cows may be ambling to and from milking.
Walk details: Slow Ways.