3 Men on a walk 2017: Around Horsted Keynes

Horsted Keynes and the Weald

Our good friends at Fancy Free Walks had posted a new walk but it was only 5 miles long. HOWEVER, it did show a new pub that we had not used previously and so we set about mapping a route in the usual manner! Work back 6 miles from the pub and then try and find a decent parking spot. This gives you a reasonable start point. Then work out the route beyond the pub in either a loop back to the car or to a bus stop that would get us back to the car. By this methodology, we ended up with a 10 mile loop walk starting at the car park at Horsted Keynes Station and it was a very nice walk too.

The village of Horsted Keynes is a pretty place and we walked through it and into lovely Weald countryside until we reached Danehill. From here we dropped down the hill to Chelwood Common where the "Coach & Horses" waited for our custom. This was a delightful little pub and well worth visiting.

We headed north from the pub and after crossing two paths we have walked previously - The Greenwich Meridian and the Sussex Border paths - we reached the railway line and followed it the last mile or so back to the car.

We spotted a single Red Kite flying across the Weald today and so it seems these birds are slowly expanding out of their Oxfordshire stronghold to our region which is great because they make a delightful sight.