Kent

Deep Kent Woods

A longer cycling route deep into Kent

Key Route Details

  • Distance: 134km
  • Elevation Gain: 2007m
  • Start/Finish: Gail’s Café, Clapham Old Town, London
  • Highlights: The wooded lanes south of Tunbridge Wells
  • Terrain: Hills

The Deep Kent Woods cycling route extends the Chiddingstone-based routes with a longer loop deeper into Kent (indeed to the edge of East Sussex). 

The southern part of the loop explores the quiet, rolling, heavily wooded, roads south of Tunbridge Wells.

Suggested café: The Deer Park Café, Danegate (66km).

 

 

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