Kent Run

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 4.34 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 1h 20 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 25 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 25 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 32 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 3 m
  • ⚐
    District: Medway 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 51.39498° / E 0.55456°
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Description

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(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. 7 m - Start near Pegasus Way, Gillingham, Medway ME7 1QY, UK
  2. 2 : km 0 - alt. 7 m - Head west on Pier Rd/A289
  3. 3 : km 0.09 - alt. 7 m - Turn left
  4. 4 : km 0.1 - alt. 8 m - Turn right
  5. 5 : km 0.19 - alt. 10 m - Head west
  6. 6 : km 0.21 - alt. 7 m - Turn left toward Medway Rd
  7. 7 : km 0.22 - alt. 8 m - Turn right onto Medway Rd
  8. 8 : km 0.26 - alt. 7 m - Head west on Medway Rd toward Richmond Rd
  9. 9 : km 0.33 - alt. 6 m - Slight left to stay on Medway Rd
  10. 10 : km 0.34 - alt. 6 m - Head west on Medway Rd toward B2004
  11. 11 : km 0.57 - alt. 11 m - Head southwest on Medway Rd/B2004 toward Wyles St
  12. 12 : km 0.95 - alt. 25 m - Head southwest on Prince Arthur Rd/B2004 toward Khyber Rd
  13. 13 : km 1.05 - alt. 29 m - Turn right onto Khyber Rd
  14. 14 : km 1.11 - alt. 30 m - Head north on Khyber Rd toward Princess Mary Ave
  15. 15 : km 1.27 - alt. 30 m - Turn right onto Princess Mary Ave
  16. 16 : km 1.27 - alt. 30 m - Head northeast on Princess Mary Ave
  17. 17 : km 1.5 - alt. 26 m - Continue onto Johnson Ave
  18. 18 : km 1.54 - alt. 25 m - Head northwest on Johnson Ave
  19. 19 : km 1.68 - alt. 19 m - Head northeast on Johnson Ave toward Lower Lines Park
  20. 20 : km 1.79 - alt. 17 m - Head north
  21. 21 : km 1.92 - alt. 14 m - Head northwest
  22. 22 : km 1.93 - alt. 14 m - Turn right toward Central Ave
  23. 23 : km 1.98 - alt. 11 m - Turn left onto Central Ave
  24. 24 : km 2.06 - alt. 11 m - Head west on Central Ave toward Officers' Rd
  25. 25 : km 2.34 - alt. 11 m - Head east on Central Ave toward Upper E Rd
  26. 26 : km 2.64 - alt. 11 m - Turn right onto Upper E Rd
  27. 27 : km 2.66 - alt. 12 m - Head north on Upper E Rd toward Central Ave
  28. 28 : km 2.67 - alt. 11 m - Turn left onto Central Ave
  29. 29 : km 2.98 - alt. 11 m - Head east on Central Ave toward Upper E Rd
  30. 30 : km 3.36 - alt. 11 m - Head west on Central Ave
  31. 31 : km 3.37 - alt. 11 m - Turn left toward Johnson Ave
  32. 32 : km 3.42 - alt. 14 m - Turn left toward Johnson Ave
  33. 33 : km 3.56 - alt. 17 m - Turn left onto Johnson Ave
  34. 34 : km 3.57 - alt. 17 m - Head east on Johnson Ave toward Purser Way
  35. 35 : km 3.63 - alt. 16 m - Turn left onto Purser Way
  36. 36 : km 3.82 - alt. 7 m - Head southeast on Purser Way
  37. 37 : km 3.82 - alt. 6 m - Turn left toward Medway Rd/B2004
  38. 38 : km 3.89 - alt. 5 m - Continue onto Medway Rd/B2004
  39. 39 : km 4 - alt. 4 m - Head southeast toward Pier Rd/A289
  40. 40 : km 4.03 - alt. 4 m - Continue onto Pier Rd/A289
  41. S/E : km 4.34 - alt. 7 m

Useful Information

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⚑Departure from Medway

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Walking Egypt Bay and St Mary's Bay from High Halstow

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Walking Newington - South ancient denehole

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↔4.45 km ↗+37 m ↘-37 m ◔1h 25 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

A pleasant walk through apple orchards, past an ancient denehole and a beacon marking the site of WWI inland defences and over Standard Hill, reputed to be a stopping point for Julius Caesar. This is Newington Walk 1.

Walking Newington, South

Association or club
↔4.34 km ↗+37 m ↘-40 m ◔1h 20 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

The walk takes you through typical 'Garden of England' orchards, across a centuries-old farm and past historic landmarks and former WWI inland defences. This is Newington Walk 2.

Walking In the steps of Caesar, Newington

Association or club
↔2.86 km ↗+23 m ↘-22 m ◔0h 55 ▲Easy
⚑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

Association or club
↔4.46 km ↗+50 m ↘-47 m ◔1h 25 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

Learn how to read a landscape for clues to its military past. From 1914 to 1918, Newington was at the heart of a sophisticated military defence line against a potential German invasion.
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

Association or club
↔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

Association or club
↔7.86 km ↗+56 m ↘-63 m ◔2h 25 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)

A lovely walk through Kent orchards, past bird-rich lagoons and onto a hill with views across the Medway estuary. It takes you past historic settlements and the site of WWI inland defences before finishing with a birds-eye view of the fine tower of St Mary's church. This is walk 3, Newington.

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