Monthly Archives: April 2024

Thursday, 11 April, 2024 The Badlands of Badlesmere

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**Packed Lunch**

Meet outside the Launderette – opposite St Mary Bredin Church at 8:30

London Road roundabout/SVW footpath to Bigberry/Chartham Hatch/Primrose Hill/Denstead Wood/Rhode Common/Perry Wood/Stocking Wood/Badlesmere.

Buses back to Canterbury (change at Faversham)
bus 666 – 12:59; 13:59; 15:35; 16:26 (11 mins to Faversham) then we can take the 3X from Faversham to Canterbury – frequent service.

We could stop in Faversham for coffee/tea.

Distance: 11 miles

Last week’s The Stuppington & Nunnery Circle:

Wednesday Walk – 10 April, 2024

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Meet at the main entrance to the Westgate Gardens at 8:30am for a two hour walk followed by coffee at a city centre cafe.

 
The weather forecast is for light rain and a moderate breeze.  The weather permitting the walk will head towards Rough Common. The Sarre Penn will be our companion for a short distance but Giles Lane and Hales Place is our route back to the city.  A truncated walk last week because of rain. We were cutting across the cemetery on our way to Rough Common when inclement weather set in. The shortest route was taken to the cafe at the Gulbenkian. Coffee and pastries were enjoyed until we dried out and the rain stopped.
The pic taken the previous week is of Abdi welcoming the wood anemones arriving for their spring time showing.

SSS332 – Tuesday 9 April, 2024 – Around The Woods Walk

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Meet @ 8:00 am outside the hospital – junction of South Canterbury Road with Ethelbert Road

Walk to Rugby Club then, via Nackington to Bridge Road and into Whitehill Wood: turn left at the cross paths heading towards Bridge.  We continue straight ahead at the next cross paths then, at the path T junction, we turn right along the bridal path, keeping to the side of the woods until we come onto Pett Bottom Road at Little Eaton Farm.  Walking towards the Duck we turn right (Tapleys Hill) and, later, right again (School Lane), proceeding uphill we turn into the woods again at the footpath sign but, as we approach the path, leading to Pett Bottom Road, we turn left towards the centre of the wood and continue straight on; later crossing Bridge Road and back through Nackington, the Rugby Club, turning left at the Langton Path towards Stuppington Lane.  The walk concludes at the junction with South Canterbury Road.

Last week’s Nick’s Walk: