Swanley to Knockholt
Station to station walk across the Kent countryside from Swanley to Knockholt.
Route
Navigation
- Exit Swanley station left onto Everest Place and follow until you reach St Mary’s Road where you turn left
- 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.
- Follow the path over the railway where it bears right after the steps and heads down and under the A20 road underpass.
- 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
- 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.
- Follow the path up hill until the crest, where the path forks.
- Take the left hand fork and follow that until you reach Cray Road after about 500m
- Cross over Cray Road and head down Tylers Green Road until you reach the junction of Tylers Green Road and Darns Hill.
- 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.
- Head through the kissing gate into the wood, the path opens out onto open pastures.
- Continue straight heading across the field to a kissing gate on the far end of the field.
- Head through the gate, across the pasture to a final kissing gate before joining the path heading towards the farm.
- Proceed straight, keeping on the concrete pathway, and passing through the farm (with the outbuildings on the your right) until you reach Gorse Road.
- 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.
- After about 100m, the path bears left, follow it until you reach Skeet Hill Lane.
- Turn right onto Skeet Hill Lane and continue for about 100m until you see the public footpath sign on the left.
- Head through the kissing gate and up a slight hill towards another small wood.
- Make you way through the wood and out onto an arable field, keep walking straight towards the woods (Black Bush Wood).
- Don’t enter the wood, but follow the path to the left with the woods on your right.
- Shortly after about 100m you’ll reach the edge of the field, bear right into the woods briefly to exit again onto another field.
- Follow the path across the field until you reach Skibbs Lane.
- Turn left onto Skibbs Lane, and head into Chelsfield.
- After about 500m you’ll arrive at the crossroad of Skibbs Lane / Bucks Cross Road.
- Cross Bucks Cross Road and head between the cricket club building and village hall.
- 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.
- Follow the path through the small woods, passing over a stile and onto pastures
- 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
- Turn right and follow the field boundary, bearing left at the edge of the field
- After about 100m pass over the stile on your right, heading across the field towards Court Road.
- Cross over Court Road, and turn left along the path.
- After about 100m, turn right onto the public footpath which skirts around Chelsfield Golfcourse.
- 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.
- Follow the path downhill and over the railway bridge before turning right at Sevenoaks Road, and finally right again into Knockholt Station.