Faversham/Oare/Uplees/Luddenham Marshes

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 8.02 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 2h 25 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 32 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 32 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 25 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 1 m
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Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 10 m - Start on Market Place
  2. 2 : km 0.02 - alt. 9 m - Turn left onto Court Street
  3. 3 : km 0.08 - alt. 9 m - Turn left onto Partridge Lane
  4. 4 : km 0.24 - alt. 3 m - Turn right onto North Lane, B2040
  5. 5 : km 0.32 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Bridge Road
  6. 6 : km 0.47 - alt. 4 m - Keep left onto Bramblehill Road
  7. 7 : km 0.63 - alt. 9 m - Turn slight left onto Reedland Crescent
  8. 8 : km 0.75 - alt. 13 m - Turn slight right onto Reedland Crescent
  9. 9 : km 0.94 - alt. 13 m - Turn left onto Priory Row
  10. 10 : km 2.22 - alt. 12 m - Turn right onto Uplees Road
  11. 11 : km 2.67 - alt. 19 m - Turn right
  12. 12 : km 3.2 - alt. 13 m - Turn right onto Uplees Road
  13. 13 : km 3.26 - alt. 12 m - Keep left
  14. 14 : km 3.57 - alt. 4 m - Turn slight left
  15. 15 : km 3.71 - alt. 3 m - Turn left
  16. 16 : km 4.47 - alt. 4 m - Keep right
  17. 17 : km 4.48 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp right
  18. 18 : km 5.62 - alt. 16 m - Turn right
  19. 19 : km 5.62 - alt. 16 m - Turn right
  20. 20 : km 5.77 - alt. 22 m - Turn left onto Bysing Wood Road
  21. 21 : km 5.79 - alt. 22 m - Turn right onto Tin Shop Hill
  22. 22 : km 6.37 - alt. 8 m - Keep right onto Bysing Wood Road
  23. 23 : km 6.42 - alt. 10 m - Turn left
  24. 24 : km 6.65 - alt. 12 m - Turn slight right onto Bysing Wood Road
  25. 25 : km 7.56 - alt. 3 m - Keep right
  26. 26 : km 7.57 - alt. 3 m - Turn sharp right
  27. 27 : km 7.6 - alt. 5 m - Turn left onto West Street
  28. 28 : km 7.85 - alt. 5 m - Turn left onto South Road, B2040
  29. 29 : km 7.86 - alt. 5 m - Turn right onto West Street
  30. 30 : km 8.02 - alt. 10 m - Turn left onto Market Place
  31. S/E : km 8.02 - alt. 10 m

Other walks in the area

Walking Faversham to Hollowshore circular route

Walker
Faversham to Hollowshore circular route
↔6.85 km ↗+6 m ↘-6 m ◔2h 00 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Faversham (Kent)
A small part of the Saxon Shore Way. A great walk along Faversham Creek to Hollowshore. Great pub, then a shorter walk back through farmland. Enjoy the beautiful desolation of the marshes, just you, the birds, and the breeze. Stop for a rest or bite to eat at the wonderful Shipwrights Arms, then either re-trace your steps or take the shorter walk back through Ham Farm.

Walking The Swale & Oare, near Faversham

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↔8.02 km ↗+17 m ↘-17 m ◔2h 20 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Oare (Kent)
This Kent walk explores the marshes, creeks and tideways on the south side of the River Swale. On the far side of the water is the Isle of Sheppey and in season the area is an excellent place for watching birdlife.

Walking Stour Valley Rural

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↔21.83 km ↗+355 m ↘-354 m ◔7h 15 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Challock (Kent)
A rural route (avoiding habitation) around the Stour Valley. Starting through King's Wood and a little of the North Downs Way heading north, crossing the valley and picking up some of the Stour Valley Walk heading south before crossing the river again and heading back into the woods.

Walking Worship, Newington

Association or club
↔2.45 km ↗+11 m ↘-14 m ◔0h 45 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)
A return rural walk between one of Kent's most interesting medieval churches and the remains of a 2,000 year old Romano-British temple.

Walking Lower Halstow, Newington

Association or club
↔7.86 km ↗+59 m ↘-64 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.

Walking Lower Halstow, Newington

Association or club
↔4.13 km ↗+13 m ↘-37 m ◔1h 15 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Newington (Kent)
This pleasant walk takes you both sides of Newington's historic watercress beds and past lagoons and open spaces filled with birds. This is Newington Walk 4.

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

Association or club
↔10.14 km ↗+100 m ↘-98 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 Defences of the First World War in Newington, Kent

Association or club
↔4.46 km ↗+59 m ↘-55 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.

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