Thursday 30 June, 2016 – Canterbury to Charing (approx 17miles) meet 8:00

POSTPONED TO THURSDAY 30 JUNE, 2016

SILVER STRIDERS
CONTUBERNII PRIMUM
***BRING A PACKED LUNCH***
Packed lunch because we want to be sure to catch the train from Charing back to Canterbury – a stop at the Red Lion could delay us.
 
8:00 Meet at Corner of Old Dover Road/Nunnery Fields
 
8:15 Collection point for other side of town Striders – Toddlers Cove
 
SSFR 2 to Badlesmere then footpaths and some yellow roads to Charing
 
Direct train from Charing to Canterbury West (44 mins)
 
14:41 or more likely
 
15:41
 
cost £7:00 with railcard
LAST WEEK’S WALK TO FAVERSHAM (lots of it through the woods) – finishing up at the yard in Faversham

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THURSDAY 16 JUNE 2016 @ 8:00

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LAST WEEK SITTING OUTSIDE CRUNDALE CHURCH, FOR A BRIEF MOMENT OF REPOSE, BEFORE THE FINAL ONSLAUGHT ON WYE

SILVER STRIDERS
CONTUBERNII PRIMUM

8:00 Meet corner of Old Dover Road/Nunnery Fields/Oaten Hill

8:20 Join at London Road Roundabout for those living on the London side of Canterbury

Proceed along Mill Lane and North Downs Way

Bridge across A2

Podhurst Farm

Denstead Wood/Court Wood/Winterbourne Wood

South Street/Brenley/Westwood Court

Faversham – Eat at one of The Yard, Havershams, Cosgroves (Preston Street) or The Bear or travel back to Canterbury

About 11 miles or 4 hours

Trains (£3.50 with Railcard)

12:08, 12:24, 13:08, 13:24 (11/13 MINS)

Buses

12:06 (3X @ 25 mins)

12:16 (3 @ 35 mins)

12:36 (3X @ 25 mins)

12:45 (3B @ 35 mins)

13:06 (3X @ 25 mins)

 

Thursday – 9 June, 2016 @ 9:00 – Canterbury to Wye (Silver Striders regular route)

 

 

SILVER STRIDERS
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STRIDERS APPROACHING THE A2 EN ROUTE TO DENTON LAST WEEK
CONTUBERNII PRIMUM
Meet corner of Stuppington Lane with South Canterbury Road @ 9:00
 
Proceed to Garlinge Green (possibly via Larkey Wood)
 
Through the Wildwood to Crundale
 
Up and down the fields to Crundale Church
 
Down to the Farm in the Valley (where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison as Bob Dylan says)
 
Up again to the top of the downs and then down to Wye via the radio mast site
 
11 miles (more or less)
 
Lunch at the Wye Coffee Shop & Kitchen (we have not been that impressed in the past but maybe it has improved, recent reviews would indicate this, plus a local resident recommended it to me a few weeks back when I was walking through Wye).
 
Trains back to Canterbury West:
 
14:09 (16 mins)
 
14:36 (12 mins)
 
15:09 (16 mins)
 
15:39 (12 mins)
 
£3.65 with Railcard