Current Programme
 
Spring Programme (Site last updated: Sunday May 13th 2012) PLEASE READ “Walks Notes” before attending any of the walks listed on our programme Contact West Kent Walking Group One Coast For All - A Rambler’s Campaign to preserve English Coastal Paths Please click the logo below to add your support  Next weekend: oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Sunday 20th May Leader: Penny Start time & place:10am Hayes - Contact Walk leader for Start Point and parking details etc Walk length: 9 miles Lunch: Picnic or optional lunch at the Kings Arms in Leaves Green www.kingsarmsleavesgreen.co.uk (let me know a week before if you would like to eat at the pub) Comments: This is a lovely walk, very green and leafy considering it is so close to the suburbs. 
The walk takes in Hayes Common, Well Wood, Leaves Green, Keston Common and Hayes Common. There are also cafes at the end of the walk, if anyone would like to stop for tea and cake. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Sunday 20th May Leader: Penny Start time & place:10am Hayes - Contact Walk leader for Start Point and parking details etc Walk length: 9 miles Lunch: Picnic or optional lunch at the Kings Arms in Leaves Green www.kingsarmsleavesgreen.co.uk (let me know a week before if you would like to eat at the pub) Comments: This is a lovely walk, very green and leafy considering it is so close to the suburbs. 
The walk takes in Hayes Common, Well Wood, Leaves Green, Keston Common and Hayes Common. There are also cafes at the end of the walk, if anyone would like to stop for tea and cake.
 Sunday 27th May Leader: Clare Start: 10.30am - Four Elms - Contact Walk leader for Start Point Walk: Circular 7 miles Lunch: Picnic lunch with optional post lunch drink stop at the Wheatsheaf pub Comments: Around Bough Beech Reservoir through meadow and woodland, very flat and easy walk *Saturday 2nd June* Leader: Sue - Contact Walk leader for Start Point and Full Details We walk with our buddies; the Capital walkers in celebration of the Olympic Games. Start: 11am - Walk in Central London In celebration of the Olympics 2012 (and in response to our Morag’s request to honour the Olympics), we will pick up the trail from the Olympic stadium of 1908 to the 2012 stadium at Stratford, London End: Pudding lane DLR station TQ378836 E15 2NQ Walk:16 mile linear, easy & non challenging, you won’t feel a thing, I promise. Lunch: Picnic by the canal Comments: A mostly flat, non challenging walk through urban areas following canal paths. As this is a long walk and the weather may be hot, we will take in a café stop, after lunch in the afternoon with plenty of chances to stock up on water at shops too. Optional pub meal at end of walk, those that don’t want to do the walk are welcome to join us for dinner/drinks at the end. If you would like to carry out just a part of the walk, that’s fine. I can arrange to meet you at a point. Let me know if you would like to eat about a week before. Sunday 10th June Leader: Lucinda - Contact Walk leader for Start Point and Full Details Start: 10.15pm Shoreham to meet Blind Walkers arriving by train. This is a joint walk with our buddies at N.W Kent Walk: 6 mile circular Lunch: Picnic lunch with pub stop at Otford (actual pub to be checked out nearer the time) Comments: A walk through open farmlands and woodlands, passing through the attractive village of Otford. Tea and cake at the 1930s Station Tea room at the end (if time and inclination). We would be very grateful for as many volunteers as possible. No experience necessary. Guide dogs only, thank you **Saturday 16th June** Evening walk Saturday 16th June Leader: Peter Dixon - Contact Walk leader for Start Point Start: 5pm One Tree Hill Walk: 8.25 miles Linear Drink Stop: Drink stop at Kentish Rifleman, Dunks Green. Comments: An evening walk along the greensand way to a West Kent Favourite. **Friday 22nd June** Evening walk Leader: Penny Start: Westerham - Contact Walk leader for Start Point
Walk: 5 miles followed by pub meal at George and Dragon. Please confirm if you would like to eat at the pub. Comments: A really nice walk which takes in some valleys, woodland, hilltop views and passes Chartwell. It has several short, steep ascents and descents. Sunday 24th June Leader: Nicky Start: 10.30 - Contact Walk leader for Start Point Walk: 9miles -Holly Hill / North Downs Lunch Picnic lunch Comments: Walk through undulating woodland and farmland with some views from the North Downs. Pub/picnic lunch at Harvel. Optional visit to pre-historic long Barrow in the afternoon (adds about ½ mile to walk). Sunday 8th July Leader: Sue/Leela - Contact walk leaders for start point Walk: Morning walk around Keston: 6 miles Part 1: 10.30 to 1pm - Walk followed by picnic lunch and then: Part 2: 2pm to 5pm we visit the village fair at Keston which takes place on the green outside the Greyhound Pub. Comments: It is like a village fair but the stalls promote the countryside. Stalls which have been there in the past include animal charities, field clubs, NT, friends groups If you would like to put on a future walk or a social event please see “Event Templates”   http://www.ramblers.co.uk/groups/email.php?group=KT51http://www.kingsarmsleavesgreen.co.ukhttp://www.kingsarmsleavesgreen.co.ukhttp://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=117&ea.campaign.id=14146shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2