Take the path to the far end of the churchyard, crossing a stile into a field. Walk ahead and cross another stile. At the end of the field, go through the kissing gate. Follow the path beside a fence, and cross a stile onto the lane.

Turn left, heading downhill past Bank Farm and bearing left under the railway line. Where the lane takes a sharp right-hand bend, keep ahead on a footpath opposite cottages. Carry on past orchards and fields to emerge on Hartlake Road. The Poacher pub lies a few paces up the road to your right.

Cross the road, follow the signed path into a field and walk up the edge past Hale Farm (oasthouses), crossing a stile at the end. Head over another field and cross a stile in the hedgeline to more fields and orchards. Cross a footbridge, where there’s an intersecting path, and keep ahead.

Continue following hedgelines and field margins past orchards to reach a gate into a tiny lane. Turn left here and in a few more paces turn left again into Postern Lane. Follow this left before turning right at Park View and passing an access road, signed ‘Upper Postern’.

Keep ahead along this surfaced single-track lane to go through a metal gate. Climb gently to a brick-walled bridge, this time crossing high above the railway line. When you reach the B2017, turn right and walk down it for about 300yds (274m) – take care here. When the road veers right by a central reservation, cross the road and take the marked footpath beside White Lodge.

In a few paces meet a road. Carry on up the steep hill, then turn left into the grounds of Somerhill School, taking the path to the left of the drive. Bear right at a sign ‘No Unauthorised Personnel beyond this point’ and follow the path beside a wall, gently downhill through woods. You are now on the Tunbridge Wells Circular Walk.

Keep going through the woods and a field, following the waymarked path. Cross a track leading to Park Farm and carry on, still heading downhill. Follow the footpath left as the drive turns right towards Oasthouse Cottages. Keeping a patch of woodland on your left, carry on to the end of the field. Duck through the trees, following the waymarked path over a couple of footbridges, then keep going over the field toward a gabled house (Crockhurst Farm Cottages).

The track to the left of the house leads out to Five Oak Green Road (B2017), but to avoid this busy road, take a permissive path left along the inner hedgeline. Follow the path up to the end of the field, parallel to the road, then go out onto the road, crossing to the church car park to return to the start.