Maidstone 16k

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 16.98 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 5h 15 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 125 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 116 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 77 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 3 m
  • ⚐
    District: Maidstone 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 51.301919° / E 0.520441°
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 30 m - Start on Tyland Lane
  2. 2 : km 0.66 - alt. 42 m - Keep right
  3. 3 : km 0.84 - alt. 40 m - Turn sharp left
  4. 4 : km 0.94 - alt. 39 m - Keep left
  5. 5 : km 1.92 - alt. 22 m - Turn left
  6. 6 : km 2 - alt. 25 m - Turn sharp left onto Forstal Road
  7. 7 : km 5.17 - alt. 6 m - Turn sharp right
  8. 8 : km 5.21 - alt. 6 m - Turn sharp right
  9. 9 : km 5.25 - alt. 12 m - Turn right
  10. 10 : km 5.25 - alt. 11 m - Turn right
  11. 11 : km 5.27 - alt. 8 m - Turn sharp left onto Waterside, A229
  12. 12 : km 5.59 - alt. 6 m - Turn right onto Earl Street
  13. 13 : km 5.6 - alt. 6 m - Turn left onto Fairmeadow, A229
  14. 14 : km 5.61 - alt. 6 m - Turn right
  15. 15 : km 5.63 - alt. 5 m - Turn slight left
  16. 16 : km 5.7 - alt. 4 m - Keep right
  17. 17 : km 5.79 - alt. 4 m - Keep left
  18. 18 : km 6.02 - alt. 5 m - Keep right
  19. 19 : km 6.2 - alt. 4 m - Turn right onto Lockmeadow Millenium Bridge
  20. 20 : km 6.24 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  21. 21 : km 6.25 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  22. 22 : km 7.22 - alt. 6 m - Keep left
  23. 23 : km 8.06 - alt. 6 m - Turn right onto Unicumes Lane
  24. 24 : km 8.32 - alt. 30 m - Turn right
  25. 25 : km 8.33 - alt. 30 m - Turn left onto Hackney Road
  26. 26 : km 9.24 - alt. 70 m - Turn right onto Tonbridge Road, A26
  27. 27 : km 9.26 - alt. 70 m - Keep left onto Queen's Road
  28. 28 : km 9.26 - alt. 70 m - Turn slight left onto Queen's Road
  29. 29 : km 11.22 - alt. 39 m - Turn right onto London Road, A20
  30. 30 : km 11.9 - alt. 44 m - Turn right
  31. 31 : km 11.91 - alt. 43 m - Turn right
  32. 32 : km 11.93 - alt. 43 m - Turn left
  33. 33 : km 11.94 - alt. 44 m - Turn left onto London Road, A20
  34. 34 : km 12.03 - alt. 42 m - Keep left onto Palmar Road
  35. 35 : km 12.39 - alt. 24 m - Turn sharp right
  36. 36 : km 12.41 - alt. 24 m - Turn sharp left
  37. 37 : km 12.63 - alt. 25 m - Turn sharp left
  38. 38 : km 12.63 - alt. 25 m - Turn right onto Newbury Avenue
  39. 39 : km 12.67 - alt. 27 m - Turn right
  40. 40 : km 12.85 - alt. 31 m - Turn slight right onto Stockbury Drive
  41. 41 : km 12.95 - alt. 35 m - Turn right onto Stockbury Drive
  42. 42 : km 13.16 - alt. 36 m - Turn right
  43. 43 : km 13.2 - alt. 36 m - Turn left
  44. 44 : km 13.2 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto Castle Road
  45. 45 : km 13.63 - alt. 21 m - Turn left
  46. 46 : km 14.01 - alt. 8 m - Turn slight right
  47. 47 : km 14.07 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp right
  48. 48 : km 14.13 - alt. 4 m - Keep right
  49. 49 : km 14.2 - alt. 3 m - Turn right
  50. 50 : km 14.25 - alt. 4 m - Turn left onto Lock Lane
  51. 51 : km 14.4 - alt. 8 m - Turn right onto Lock Lane
  52. 52 : km 14.47 - alt. 8 m - Turn slight left onto Lock Lane
  53. 53 : km 14.56 - alt. 9 m - Turn sharp left onto Forstal Road
  54. 54 : km 14.89 - alt. 25 m - Turn sharp right
  55. 55 : km 14.97 - alt. 22 m - Turn right
  56. 56 : km 16.05 - alt. 40 m - Turn sharp right
  57. 57 : km 16.23 - alt. 42 m - Turn slight left
  58. 58 : km 16.29 - alt. 41 m - Turn left onto Chatham Road
  59. 59 : km 16.31 - alt. 42 m - Turn right
  60. 60 : km 16.36 - alt. 42 m - Turn left onto Chatham Road
  61. 61 : km 16.38 - alt. 41 m - Turn left onto Tyland Lane
  62. S/E : km 16.98 - alt. 30 m

Useful Information

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⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

The walk climbs a small hill reputed to have been used as an encampment by Julius Caesar and which overlooks former WWI defences with a commemorative beacon erected by Newington History Group. It gives lovely views over ancient settlements and to the Medway estuary. The descent takes you through orchards - fruit-growing has been a major part of the local economy for centuries.

Walking Defences of the First World War in Newington, Kent

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⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

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The walk takes you through the defences, leading you to four information boards that enable you to visualise the trenches, gun emplacements and observation posts that helped protect Britain.

Walking Discovering 2,000 years of history and nature around Newington in Kent

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↔10.14 km ↗+96 m ↘-96 m ◔3h 10 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

A mainly flat walk in countryside surrounding a small Kent village which dates to pre-Roman times and that was on the route for Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. Walk in the footsteps of Julius Caesar, see the remains of a Roman town and the site of World War I trenches and visit a fine 13th century church. Along the way are former watercress beds, historic orchards and centuries-old farms and houses. The figure of eight walk twice passes near an 18th century pub for refreshments.

Walking Lower Halstow, Newington

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↔4.13 km ↗+12 m ↘-40 m ◔1h 15 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

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Walking Lower Halstow, Newington

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↔7.86 km ↗+56 m ↘-63 m ◔2h 25 ▲Moderate
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