Walks you can reach from Knockholt by train
Kent · South East England | Walks by foot
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Chelsfield Station Circular via Down House (Kent)
3m direct from Knockholt.
16km. Moderate ascents. 4h30–7h30.
Highlights: Down House (home of Charles Darwin).
Lunch stops in Downe (3h–5h in): Down House café, the George and Dragon, or Rajdoot of Downe. Other lunch stop: the Blacksmith's Arms (2h–3h30 in).
End-of-walk rewards: the Rose and Crown, the Royal Oak, the Queens Head, or the Chelsfield.
Borough Green & Wrotham Station to Sevenoaks Station (Kent)
9m direct from Knockholt.
16km. Moderate ascents. 4h30–7h30.
An essential walk! Greensand hills, apple orchards, woodland paths, streams, deer park, open parkland, and historic manor grounds. Mostly secluded. Can be muddy.
Highlights: Ightham Mote (14th century manor; a visit easily fits into a walk schedule), Knole House (enormous aristocratic estate, associated with the Bloomsbury Group; well worth a visit but consumes a day in itself), and Knole Park.
Lunch stops: the Plough (2h–3h in), or Ightham Mote café (2h–3h30 in).
End-of-walk rewards: the Chequers, the Restoration, or the Sennockian.
Sevenoaks Station Circular via Knole House (Kent)
9m direct from Knockholt.
16km.
A rambler favourite! Deer park, fields, woods, coppiced woodland, escarpment ridge, bluebell and wild garlic woods, and Weald views. Some mud inevitable.
Documented by the Saturday Walkers Club.
Yalding Station to Sevenoaks Station (Kent)
9m direct from Knockholt.
21km.
A rambler favourite! Undulating Kent farmland, orchards, bluebell woods, greensand escarpment, and deer park. Waymarking can disappear.
Documented by the Saturday Walkers Club.
Leigh Station to Sevenoaks Station (Kent)
9m direct from Knockholt.
14km. 4h30.
Rolling Kentish farmland, fields, oasthouses, bluebell woods, steep greensand hillside, and deer park. Can be muddy.
Documented by the Saturday Walkers Club.
Hurst Green Station to Sevenoaks Station (Surrey)
9m direct from Knockholt.
18km.
Greensand ridge, chart hills, undulating woodland, commons, deer park, historic estates, and suburban old town. Steep climbs.
Documented by the Saturday Walkers Club.
Edenbridge Station to Sevenoaks Station (Kent)
9m direct from Knockholt.
17km.
Open fields, NE ascent to Toy's Hill, and easterly woodland walking after Ide Hill.
An alternative variant of Hurst Green to Chiddingstone Causeway – documented by the Saturday Walkers Club.
Petts Wood Station Circular (Kent)
15m direct from Knockholt.
12km.
Suburban woodlands, wide woodland tracks, heathland, valleys, moated manor ruins, and open green spaces. Can be muddy.