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Chiddingstone to Hever Walk
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Walk to Penshurst ~ Walk to Bough Beech Reservoir

By little roads and paths, through fields and woods,
to Hever Castle and back.
Total distance about 4.5 miles. 1½ hours.

From Chiddingstone village, with the Castle Inn behind you and St Mary's Church on your right, take the road that skirts the lake, with Chiddingstone Castle away on your left, to Gilwyns crossroads, then straight ahead first down then up for half a mile. The road eventually turns sharply to the left, marked by the chevron road sign, turn right by the red post box into the unmade road which will lead into Hever Castle grounds. At the end of the road bear to your right to take the signed footpath alongside a fence next to a wood. Keep going straight with the private road to your left then cross by a pretty rustic bridge and so onto a narrow path between fences to a path leading through Hever Churchyard leading to a lychgate.

Inside the charming little church of St Peters, with its slender spire, is the tomb of Sir Thomas Bullen, father to Anne Boleyn. To your right is Hever castle.

To continue your walk which we left at the lychgate, turn left past the King Henry VIII Inn, and where the road turns sharply to the right round the inn, and carry on by a path by a red post box, passing the village school on your left. The path leads to a quiet road where you turn left, and after a third of a mile you join another road. Turn left from the end of Rectory Lane, directly to a footpath on the left and go through a metal turnstile and carry on along side a hedge ahead.

After skirting a wood, the path continues by a hedge through another metal turnstile, past woodland on the right to the private road that runs through Hever Castle grounds. This is the road that we saw when first we entered the grounds. Here you turn right, not along the private road, but by a path that runs alongside a fence to the right, and onto to another road that dives down a hill to your right, which you cross to a gate opposite. From the gate, go straight ahead, between fences along the edge of the field, and then turn right when you come across to a wood. Turn sharp left over a little footbridge and up a steep path. When the path joins a track, keep straight. The track, which for the part of the way passes through rock sides, is generally muddy and very ridges, so it is advisable to a take a track to the left, that runs alongside, and a above the rocks, and rejoins the track again just short of Hill Hoath. At Hill Hoath pass in front of a low flying half-timbered house to your left, called Withers and turn left down the road. Carry straight on down this road for about half a mile, to arrive once more at Gilwyns crossroads, where you turn right and retrace your steps to Chiddingstone Village and the Castle Inn.

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