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Thanks for this. It prompted me to go to your blog of last year - sadly, the links in it no longer work, which I imagine is some time limitation imposed by the site owner.

dg writes: all the links in last year's post still work.

Liz | 26.06.20 - 8:12 a.m. | #

A few weeks ago I walked the Darenth Valley Path from Dartford to Otford. Bit of a mixed bag. Some parts really lovely but in others where it passes industrial estates or dives under motorways not so good. Poppies glorious this year.

Peter | 26.06.20 - 8:27 a.m. | #

Aah, the beauty (eventually) of the countryside!
This post has highlighted just how much I've missed getting away from suburbia this year.

Cornish Cockney | 26.06.20 - 9:41 a.m. | #

A great and fascinating post, this is now on my list for a visit, but I can't quite work out how long the walk would be to the chapel from the railway station rather than the bus stop.

Cau1khead | 26.06.20 - 11:05 a.m. | #

Glad to see wandering afar. And enjoying everything the landscape throws your way. Thank you

International Reader | 26.06.20 - 11:16 a.m. | #

Fond menories of a similar journey over sixty years ago, before Mways were thought of!

My father and I caught the 21A bus from New Eltham Station. The RT double decker bus took us through Sidcup, Foots Cray and Stanley and we arrived via the roundabout on the A20 by pass and then down into Farningham village using the Dartford road. The conductor got off at the stop at the. “Bull” with us. Whereupon the bus pulled forward and reversed under the conductors guidance into the empty yard of the pub,

We set of across the fields to Horton Kirby cricket club. When we arrived the toss had already been made and Dad was to open the batting! The walk must have done him good as batted all afternoon for one of his highest scores in 90F plus temperatures. I cant remember the result. However I do remember that the 703 Green Line coach was full and we had to wait for the next 21A with many others!

Roger Hawkins | 26.06.20 - 12:12 p.m. | #

Oh, to be on the boundary at Horton Kirby CC! Or any boundary, for that matter. I miss cricket.

Helena | 26.06.20 - 12:17 p.m. | #

Mildly intrigued by the 'godforsaken layby' at the start of the journey: Google satellite view suggests it, coupled with a very abandoned curve of road in the woods behind, might be a long-lost temporary exit from the M20.

David | 26.06.20 - 10:03 p.m. | #

At a guess, it looks to me like the path of London Road before the M20/M25/Swanley By Pass and the roundabout were built. The roundabout is notorious for being the scene of a murder committed by Kenneth Noye.

The 233 ends here because this is the nearest turning point to the old Swanley garage. As Roger notes, a time machine and the 21 would have taken DG to Farningham.

Ned | 26.06.20 - 10:50 p.m. | #











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