Walks from Yalding
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Yalding Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Yalding by train.
Yalding to Sevenoaks
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
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
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
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
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).
Yalding to Beltring
Flat riverside paths, farmland, woods and a pretty stretch of river Medway.
Time: 6h30 (5h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Busy A-road crossing.
Source: A longer variant of Yalding Circular (Saturday Walkers Club).
Yalding to Paddock Wood
Flat riverside paths, farmland, meadows, woods and quiet lanes.
Source: A longer variant of Yalding Circular (Saturday Walkers Club).
Wateringbury to Yalding
Flat riverside paths, farmland fields, orchards, quiet lanes and a floodplain.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A shorter variant of Yalding Circular (Saturday Walkers Club).