Iron men of Brenchley
From the car park turn left to the war memorial. Turn right, then, at the top, cross the road and go up some steps into an orchard. Walk ahead, turning right through a gate and follow the path, turning left on a tarmac drive to pass some cottages. Pass through a gate and enter an orchard. Turn right and follow the orchard edge to a kissing gate and then pass through it.
Walk down the slope bounded by fences on either side and skirt left around the wood, through a kissing gate and bear right to follow the field-edge. Before the end of the field take the unmarked path right, keeping left of a house and on to the road.
Turn right, then,in a few paces, turn left into and across a field. Keep right at a fork to follow the path towards Biggenden Farm. Pass through the gap in the fence and cross a stream, and then a stile before turning left along a track passing Springfield Cottages on your left, and an orchard on your right. At the road, turn right and then take the path on the left of a cottage, cross a stile and make for the ditch, then turn right alongside it. Turn left over the ditch, and follow another ditch and eventually go up steps onto Knowle Road.
Turn left, and where the road bends, take the path on the right. Head across the field towards the hedge line, maintaining direction to cross a bridge. Walk ahead and follow the field-edge round to another bridge hidden in the trees on the right. Turn left around the field-edge to a stile and road.
Turn right for 0.25 miles (400m) and take the path left opposite Woodside Cottage into an orchard. Walk ahead between copse and orchard and then turn right across the field to the road. Turn left down the road for 450yds (300m) and take the path beside Temple Farm.
Pass cottages and follow the right-hand field-edge to a white timbered cottage. Cross a stile, walk down the drive and follow the path turning left behind the garage, down the slope, alongside another garage and then onto the road. Turn left for 0.5 miles (800m) to a parking area at Furnace Pond.
Turn right at Lake Cottage, right again across the bridge and walk around the pond. Turn right after a gate and walk up the side of an orchard, across a tarmac drive and alongside a high beech hedge. Near the top, turn left across the orchard to a tarmac drive, emerging near a B & B. Turn left down to Hononton Farm, and turn right after the farmhouse. At a line of telegraph poles turn left towards a wood. On reaching a fence turn right and follow on to a kissing gate, then cross a stile to get onto the road.
Take the path almost opposite and pass through a gate beside a converted barn. Turn right over a bridge and follow a path between fields to a stile, then cross a paddock to another stile. Follow the track between a large pond and some buildings to a road, go through a gate and then turn right to join the road at the Halfway House pub. Turn left, then, halfway up the hill, cross a stile on your right, head across the field and exit via another stile to rejoin the road. Turn right to go back into Brenchley.
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- Launderette
- Ice pack facility
- Shop onsite
- Wifi available
- Rooms 15
- Free TV
- Wifi
- Open parking
- Rooms 10
- Free TV
- Direct Dial
- Wifi



