16 Miler In Medway

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 26.14 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 8h 15 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 262 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 258 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 165 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 23 m
  • ⚐
    District: Medway 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 51.351309° / E 0.583298°
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Description

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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. 101 m - Start on Bredhurst Road
  2. 2 : km 0.24 - alt. 102 m - Turn sharp right
  3. 3 : km 0.31 - alt. 103 m - Turn left
  4. 4 : km 0.45 - alt. 107 m - Turn right onto Fairview Avenue
  5. 5 : km 0.66 - alt. 104 m - Turn left onto Fairview Road
  6. 6 : km 0.86 - alt. 99 m - Turn left onto Spekes Road
  7. 7 : km 1.49 - alt. 110 m - Turn sharp right onto Kingsdown Close
  8. 8 : km 2.17 - alt. 124 m - Turn left
  9. 9 : km 2.57 - alt. 130 m - Turn right onto Maidstone Road
  10. 10 : km 3.25 - alt. 135 m - Keep right onto Forge Lane
  11. 11 : km 3.91 - alt. 127 m - Turn right onto Chapel Lane
  12. 12 : km 4.75 - alt. 117 m - Keep left
  13. 13 : km 4.87 - alt. 117 m - Turn right
  14. 14 : km 4.87 - alt. 117 m - Turn left onto Hempstead Valley Drive
  15. 15 : km 5.01 - alt. 113 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 5.16 - alt. 113 m - Turn right onto Hempstead Valley Drive
  17. 17 : km 5.37 - alt. 101 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Hempstead Valley Drive
  18. 18 : km 6.49 - alt. 91 m - Turn right onto Hempstead Road
  19. 19 : km 6.77 - alt. 71 m - Turn left onto Star Lane
  20. 20 : km 7.4 - alt. 59 m - Keep left
  21. 21 : km 8.21 - alt. 42 m - Turn left
  22. 22 : km 8.44 - alt. 53 m - Turn left
  23. 23 : km 8.87 - alt. 36 m - Turn right onto Capstone Road
  24. 24 : km 8.94 - alt. 35 m - Turn left onto Capstone Road
  25. 25 : km 9.44 - alt. 33 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto North Dane Way
  26. 26 : km 10.4 - alt. 74 m - Turn left
  27. 27 : km 12.97 - alt. 116 m - Turn right onto Albemarle Road
  28. 28 : km 13.97 - alt. 140 m - Keep left onto Albemarle Road
  29. 29 : km 13.99 - alt. 141 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Lordswood Lane
  30. 30 : km 14.02 - alt. 142 m - Turn right
  31. 31 : km 14.02 - alt. 142 m - Turn left onto Lordswood Lane
  32. 32 : km 15.11 - alt. 165 m - Turn right
  33. 33 : km 15.26 - alt. 162 m - Turn left
  34. 34 : km 15.27 - alt. 163 m - Turn right onto Boxley Road
  35. 35 : km 17.15 - alt. 97 m - Turn right onto Walderslade Road
  36. 36 : km 17.43 - alt. 95 m - Turn right onto Walderslade Road
  37. 37 : km 17.53 - alt. 98 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Walderslade Road
  38. 38 : km 19.21 - alt. 104 m - Turn right onto Wayfield Road
  39. 39 : km 20.62 - alt. 43 m - Turn left onto Street End Road
  40. 40 : km 21.55 - alt. 29 m - Turn left onto Luton High Street
  41. 41 : km 21.66 - alt. 24 m - Turn right onto Beacon Hill
  42. 42 : km 21.81 - alt. 32 m - Turn sharp right onto Queens Road
  43. 43 : km 21.98 - alt. 33 m - Turn left
  44. 44 : km 22.25 - alt. 87 m - Turn sharp left
  45. 45 : km 22.33 - alt. 90 m - Keep right
  46. 46 : km 22.42 - alt. 93 m - Turn right
  47. 47 : km 22.77 - alt. 94 m - Keep right
  48. 48 : km 22.81 - alt. 89 m - Keep left
  49. 49 : km 23.36 - alt. 94 m - Turn right onto Star Lane
  50. 50 : km 23.37 - alt. 94 m - Keep left
  51. 51 : km 24.35 - alt. 92 m - Turn left
  52. 52 : km 24.45 - alt. 102 m - Turn left onto Hempstead Road
  53. 53 : km 24.5 - alt. 105 m - Keep left onto Hempstead Road
  54. 54 : km 24.55 - alt. 105 m - Enter roundabout
  55. 55 : km 24.64 - alt. 103 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Hoath Lane
  56. 56 : km 24.77 - alt. 104 m - Turn right onto Hoath Lane
  57. 57 : km 24.88 - alt. 106 m - Keep left
  58. 58 : km 24.9 - alt. 106 m - Turn right
  59. 59 : km 25.16 - alt. 103 m - Turn left
  60. 60 : km 25.24 - alt. 104 m - Turn right
  61. 61 : km 25.51 - alt. 102 m - Turn right
  62. 62 : km 25.53 - alt. 102 m - Turn right onto Durham Road
  63. 63 : km 25.9 - alt. 101 m - Turn right onto Woodside
  64. 64 : km 26 - alt. 101 m - Turn left onto Bredhurst Road
  65. S/E : km 26.14 - alt. 101 m

Useful Information

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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.

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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)

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.

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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.

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

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