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Swanley to Knockholt
Station to station walk across the Kent countryside from Swanley to Knockholt.
4.56 miles / 7.34 km
349 ft / 106 m
TQ 50976 68295
TQ 48471 62887
Categories: station-to-station

Route

Navigation

  1. Exit Swanley station left onto Everest Place and follow until you reach St Mary’s Road where you turn left
  2. After about 50 yards turn left onto Southern Place, following the road to the end where it narrows to a bush-lined path to a set of steps over the railway.
  3. Follow the path over the railway where it bears right after the steps and heads down and under the A20 road underpass.
  4. Shortly after you exit the underpass, bear left (with the sports field on your left) and follow the path until you get to Stones Cross Road / Green Court Road
  5. On Stones Cross Road (with the War Memorial in front of you), bear right and follow the road for about 200 meters until you reach a small row of terrace houses on the right, with the public footpath sign. Turn right and follow the footpath.
  6. Follow the path up hill until the crest, where the path forks.
  7. Take the left hand fork and follow that until you reach Cray Road after about 500m
  8. Cross over Cray Road and head down Tylers Green Road until you reach the junction of Tylers Green Road and Darns Hill.
  9. Bear right onto Darns Hill and follow it for about 200m until you reach a fork, take the right-hand path and follow until you get to a kissing gate at the edge of a wood.
  10. Head through the kissing gate into the wood, the path opens out onto open pastures.
  11. Continue straight heading across the field to a kissing gate on the far end of the field.
  12. Head through the gate, across the pasture to a final kissing gate before joining the path heading towards the farm.
  13. Proceed straight, keeping on the concrete pathway, and passing through the farm (with the outbuildings on the your right) until you reach Gorse Road.
  14. Cross Gorse Road and head through the kissing gate on the other side, head straight, keeping the poly tunnels on your left, down through another kissing gate.
  15. After about 100m, the path bears left, follow it until you reach Skeet Hill Lane.
  16. Turn right onto Skeet Hill Lane and continue for about 100m until you see the public footpath sign on the left.
  17. Head through the kissing gate and up a slight hill towards another small wood.
  18. Make you way through the wood and out onto an arable field, keep walking straight towards the woods (Black Bush Wood).
  19. Don’t enter the wood, but follow the path to the left with the woods on your right.
  20. Shortly after about 100m you’ll reach the edge of the field, bear right into the woods briefly to exit again onto another field.
  21. Follow the path across the field until you reach Skibbs Lane.
  22. Turn left onto Skibbs Lane, and head into Chelsfield.
  23. After about 500m you’ll arrive at the crossroad of Skibbs Lane / Bucks Cross Road.
  24. Cross Bucks Cross Road and head between the cricket club building and village hall.
  25. Carefully bear left in front of the cricket club (keeping off the pitch!), and head towards the boundary hedge on the left, where there is an entrance to the a tree-lined footpath.
  26. Follow the path through the small woods, passing over a stile and onto pastures
  27. Cross the pastures to the the adjacent wood and over another stile and briefly through a small wood, emerging onto orchards by Hewitts Farm Shop
  28. Turn right and follow the field boundary, bearing left at the edge of the field
  29. After about 100m pass over the stile on your right, heading across the field towards Court Road.
  30. Cross over Court Road, and turn left along the path.
  31. After about 100m, turn right onto the public footpath which skirts around Chelsfield Golfcourse.
  32. Keeping on the path as it crosses the golf course twice, before bearing right onto a tarmac path that takes you over a bridge over the A21.
  33. Follow the path downhill and over the railway bridge before turning right at Sevenoaks Road, and finally right again into Knockholt Station.