Section 2 (Return)
Calcott to Herne Common
Walk Details
Map | Explorer 150 Canterbury & the Isle of Thanet |
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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.
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