Tunbridge Wells Circular Walk
A 27-mile long-distance path in Kent. The route is a circular walk exploring the diverse countryside around the spa town. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: TQ 575 427
Distance: 27 miles (44 km)
Time: 10–13 hours
Duration: 1–3 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
135 Ashdown Forest, Royal Tunbridge Wells, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Crowborough
136 High Weald, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Cranbrook, Hawkhurst and Bewl Water
147 Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Royal Tunbridge Wells and Westerham
Summary
The Tunbridge Wells Circular Walk is a long-distance footpath formerly known as the High Weald Walk. The walk explores the diverse countryside around Royal Tunbridge Wells, which lies on the borders of Kent and East Sussex within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). It passes through a rolling landscape of ridges and valleys with a patchwork of small fields, hedges, and broadleaved woodland.
Along the route are Groombridge Place, High Rocks, Eridge Rocks, and Harrison’s Rocks—all sandstone outcrops popular with climbers—as well as Eridge Park. From the starting point, places the walk visits include Coneyburrow Wood, Somerhill Park, Tudeley (where a short diversion to the Tudeley Woods Nature Reserve can be made), Kent College, Snipe Wood, Chase Wood, Frant, Eridge Green, Groombridge, and Speldhurst.