Robust Rambles

Herne Bay to Hazelmere Robust Ramble

Section 2 (Return)

Calcott to Herne Common

Walk Details
Map Explorer 150 Canterbury & the Isle of Thanet
Total Circular Distance 4 miles/3 hours
Start From The Punch Tavern, extensive parking here if intending make use of the facilities.
Comment Thankfully a pleasant walk back away from roads and traffic. A couple of stiles and the odd patch of mud.
Walk Instructions

From the Punch Tavern, cross the main road with care and turn right on the pavement. In 80 metres, by a bungalow, turn right, to cross the road again and go into Woodlands Farm entrance.

Where the drive swings right, at the entrance to Bird’s Nest, bear left on a stoney farm track, circling past the farm over on your right, then forward for ½ mile along a field edge with a solar farm on your right.

At the bottom corner, bear left across scrub, to a footbridge and cross to a metal gate into a field. Turn left up the edge with a hedge on your left.

At a corner, cross a footbridge and turn right up the field edge with a hedge on your right. Emerge through a gate and footbridge onto a road. Cross and continue on a narrow path through trees and bushes.

Emerge from these and continue across an open field. At a corner of woods ahead, ignore a cross path and continue forward, along the side of a field with the woods on your right.

At a corner and junction of paths, turn right, into the woods, then almost immediately left. Keep on steadily down through the wood to eventually reach a footbridge.

Cross and turn left along the edge of the wood, now on your left, along an enclosed muddy path.

In 50 metres, turn left, over a footbridge in the hedge, into a field. Turn right up the edge with a hedge on your right.

At the top, cross a stile into an enclosed and muddy path, around the foot of gardens. Cross a footbridge then a stile to a road.

Go straight over and up the footpath opposite to reach a main road. Turn right a short distance to reach the Curious Cat pub and start of the section.