Walks from Faversham
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Faversham Station.
Alternatively, view walks near Faversham by train.
Faversham to Canterbury
Recommended: Really beautiful woodland segments and occasional idyllic countryside vistas. The first segment, closest to Faversham, isn't great due to a busy road, but very quiet beyond that. Quiet and isolated.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Faversham: Very picturesque medieval market town with many interesting shops and historic sites.
Canterbury Cathedral (5h in)
Canterbury (5h in)
Time: 7h (5h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Lunch: No lunch venues en route. There's a playground with picnic tables at Chartham Hatch that makes a good stop for a packed lunch.
7 end-of-walk rewards: the Black Griffin, the Lady Luck, the Old Weaver Restaurant, Marlowe's, the Drapers Arms, the Old Buttermarket, or the Shakespeare
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walk: Slow Ways.
Faversham Circular via Uplees Marshes
Flat marshland, creek embankments, farm fields, quiet country lanes, woodland and tidal waterways.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Teynham to Faversham
Flat orchards and fruit farms, tidal river seawall, coastal creeks, mudflats, salt marshes, drainage ditches, dykes, windswept grazing marshes and historic market town streets.
Time: 7h (5h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Faversham to Whitstable
Faversham is beautiful, and Whitstable nice enough, but the intervening coastal stretch is an extremely monotonous and exposed trudge between an estuary shoreline and a solar power plant. If it were one segment it'd be fine but for 16 km it's gruelling. Quiet and isolated.
Coastal: three quarters along the coast.
Faversham: Very picturesque medieval market town with many interesting shops and historic sites (15m in).
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
2 lunch spots: Secret Garden Tea Room (15m in), or the Sportsman (2h30 in; reservations recommended)
Source: Trains2Green.
Similar walks: the Saturday Walkers Club, Railwalks (inc. GPX) and Slow Ways (inc. GPX).
Sittingbourne to Faversham
Recommended: A flat estuary walk along the sea defences, following the England Coast Path nearly all the way.
Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.
Time: 8h30 (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Lunch: Only one village stop en route.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Lenham to Faversham
Ashford International to Faversham
A long walk with about a mile less road walking than the alternative, mostly on quiet lanes and footpaths and climbing to King's Wood with its sculptures. Some field-edge alternatives avoid problem paths. A short 40m stretch of A251 road walking near Boughton Aluph looks uncomfortable. Five sculptures in King's Wood are on the route. Possible break-out points by bus, train or pub at Kennington, Wye, Challock, Badlesmere, Leaveland, Sheldwich or Selling.
Time: 8h30 (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Lunch: Pubs on the route at Kennington, Boughton Lees and Molash.
Warnings: There are 40 metres of road walking on the A251 near Boughton Aluph that looks a little uncomfortable; regular runners keep off the road using the adjacent field edge instead.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Queenborough to Faversham
An unavoidably long route through grazing marsh, freshwater pools, saltwater creeks, orchards and urban green spaces and quiet country lanes. Mostly flat; some sections can be soggy and waterlogged but doable with high boots. Passes through the Swale RAMSAR site with important bird populations; a high density of fruit orchards makes it good for spring blossom; lots of pitstop and public-transport options; you may see the Kingsferry Bridge spans lift.
Time: 10h (7h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 1h break)
1 lunch spot: the Ship Inn
Warnings: Some parts of the route can be very waterlogged.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Faversham Circular via Faversham Guildhall & Oare Marshes Nature Reserve
Flat marshland, creek embankments, farm fields, quiet country lanes and bypassing Gunpowder Works woodland.
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A variant of Faversham Circular (Saturday Walkers Club).
Faversham Circular via Faversham Guildhall & Oare Gunpowder Works Country Park
Flat marshland, creek embankments, farm fields, quiet lanes and omitting the Oare Marshes loop.
Time: 4h30 (3h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A shorter variant of Faversham Circular (Saturday Walkers Club).
Faversham to Chartham
Field and woodland paths with steps and several gates and uneven ground. At one point the route passes through orchards.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Source: An alternative variant of Favcha two (Slow Ways).