Bewl Water

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"Bewl Water, created in the 1970s, has naturalised superbly and now attracts innumerable wildfowl."
Walk directions

Turn right out of the car park, follow Pickforde Lane to the main road in Ticehurst, and turn right through the village, keeping forward at the junction by the Bell pub in the Wadhurst/Tunbridge Wells direction. Just after house No 32 (Wisteria House), turn right on a path between houses. Keep in this direction, soon between fences. Eventually the path emerges into a field and goes forward along the left side of a field, then switches to the other side of the hedge (on the right side of the next field) when a distant oasthouse comes into view.

Drop into a small wood, and 100 yards (91m) later turn right at a T-junction of tracks, immediately bending left to enter the right-hand of two fields, up a grassy strip along the field-edge. Cross a lane to the driveway opposite, then as the driveway bends left to a weatherboarded house, go forward on an enclosed path between hedges. Turn right at a signpost at a path junction just a few paces before a corner of a track above you, on another path between hedges, past a summerhouse with a cockerel weather vane away to the left.

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  Terrain  - Footpaths, tracks and a quiet road; several stiles
  Landscape  - Farmland, reservoir, woodland
  Dog friendliness  - On a lead where livestock is grazing; not allowed to swim in reservoir
  Parking  - Free car park in Pickforde Lane in centre of Ticehurst
  Toilets en route  - In Ticehurst village centre
About the walk
This walk is unusual for Southeast England in following the shores of a huge, naturalistic reservoir, set in beautiful hilly Wealden countryside. This 770-acre (311ha) reservoir was formed by damming the upper reaches of the River Bewl just before it flows into Kent. Work started in 1973 and the...
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Bewl Water

Recommended by
Our view
"Bewl Water, created in the 1970s, has naturalised superbly and now attracts innumerable wildfowl."
Dog friendly
Location
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Additional information
  Terrain - Footpaths, tracks and a quiet road; several stiles
  Landscape - Farmland, reservoir, woodland
  Dog friendliness - On a lead where livestock is grazing; not allowed to swim in reservoir
  Parking - Free car park in Pickforde Lane in centre of Ticehurst
  Toilets en route - In Ticehurst village centre
About the walk
This walk is unusual for Southeast England in following the shores of a huge, naturalistic reservoir, set in beautiful hilly Wealden countryside. This 770-acre (311ha) reservoir was formed by damming the upper reaches of the River Bewl just before it flows into Kent. Work started in 1973 and the...
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