Pilgrim's Way Day 5 - Rochester to Wormshill

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 32.12 km
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    Average duration: 10h 55 
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    Difficulty: Not specified
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    Return to departure point: No
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    Vertical gain: + 622 m
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    Vertical drop: - 482 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 194 m
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    Lowest point: 18 m
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  1. S : km 0 - alt. 33 m - Continue
  2. 2 : km 0.11 - alt. 31 m - Turn right onto Wouldham Road
  3. 3 : km 0.21 - alt. 25 m - Turn sharp left onto Nashenden Farm Lane
  4. 4 : km 1.14 - alt. 29 m - Turn slight right onto North Downs Way
  5. 5 : km 2.71 - alt. 109 m - Continue onto Hill Road
  6. 6 : km 4.27 - alt. 161 m - Turn slight right onto Common Road
  7. 7 : km 5.22 - alt. 171 m - Continue
  8. 8 : km 6 - alt. 184 m - Continue onto Common Road
  9. 9 : km 6.1 - alt. 184 m - Turn right
  10. 10 : km 7.09 - alt. 133 m - Continue onto Chatham Road
  11. 11 : km 7.33 - alt. 116 m - Turn slight right
  12. 12 : km 7.82 - alt. 58 m - Turn left onto Pilgrims Way
  13. 13 : km 7.84 - alt. 58 m - Continue onto MR448
  14. 14 : km 8.5 - alt. 70 m - Turn sharp left
  15. 15 : km 8.98 - alt. 87 m - Turn left
  16. 16 : km 11.87 - alt. 185 m - Continue onto Harp Farm Road
  17. 17 : km 12.14 - alt. 185 m - Turn slight right onto North Downs Way
  18. 18 : km 14.21 - alt. 192 m - Turn right onto Hermitage Lane
  19. 19 : km 14.8 - alt. 120 m - Turn left onto Pilgrims Way
  20. 20 : km 15.07 - alt. 118 m - Turn slight right
  21. 21 : km 15.33 - alt. 118 m - Turn left onto Pilgrims Way
  22. 22 : km 15.75 - alt. 111 m - Turn left
  23. 23 : km 17.2 - alt. 174 m - Turn right onto Castle Hill
  24. 24 : km 17.42 - alt. 149 m - Turn left
  25. 25 : km 19.84 - alt. 150 m - Turn left onto Coldharbour Lane
  26. 26 : km 20.18 - alt. 186 m - Turn slight right
  27. 27 : km 24.05 - alt. 91 m - Turn slight right onto Hollingbourne Hill
  28. 28 : km 24.06 - alt. 90 m - Turn left
  29. 29 : km 27.77 - alt. 147 m - Continue onto Pilgrims Way
  30. 30 : km 27.84 - alt. 147 m - Turn sharp right onto Stede Hill
  31. 31 : km 30.61 - alt. 190 m - Turn slight right
  32. 32 : km 32.02 - alt. 165 m - Continue onto The Street
  33. E : km 32.12 - alt. 165 m

Other walks in the area

Walking Through orchards

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↔14.12 km ↗+90 m ↘-90 m ◔4h 20 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Medway
Through several of Kent's fine apple & pear orchards plus one field of Nordic fir Christmas trees ending through open fields of sheep and cattle.

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

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↔11.95 km ↗+78 m ↘-71 m ◔3h 40 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from High Halstow (Medway)
This Kent walk takes you onto the southern shores of the Thames Estuary. The route is easy to follow (apart from the start). The area visited during the walk provided Dickens with the perfect scene for his prison huls in his novel 'Great Expectations'.

Walking Newington - South ancient denehole

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↔4.45 km ↗+37 m ↘-38 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 ↗+36 m ↘-39 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 ↘-23 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 ↗+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.

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 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.

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