Harnor three

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A pretty and peaceful rural route, apart from the unavoidable A2 crossing. At both ends you quickly get onto paths. There's little road walking and only unpavemented on very quiet roads around Southfleet village.

Starts in Longfield (aka Hartley?) then climbs quite steeply to a wildflower chalk meadow along the top with long views to central London and singing skylarks. Then you gently descends through farmland towards the Thames. After crossing the noisy A2 it continues through woodlands
along the Ebbsfleet Valley, a short but substantial river that quickly spreads out into a wide wetland. I'm sure more housing developments will continue to creep up to the edges but it's a surprisingly green and tranquil gap in the urban corridor that dominates the Thames for so long.

Southfleet village has a pub serving food and some buses through the day, not evenings or Sundays. One route links Longfield and Northfleet (also Swanscombe High Street). There is a pizza van in the lay-by just N of the A2 on Hall Road. Or, three minutes further on Hall Rd is a huge supermarket and more buses.

NB the southern end is at Longfield Station, Longfield village is contiguous with Hartley.

I originally walked this from north to south, as HarNor 2 but found a change was needed after testing it. Most photos point that way too.

Uploaded on 24 Sep 2022, edited Sept 2023

A pretty and peaceful rural route, apart from the unavoidable A2 crossing. At both ends you quickly get onto paths. There's little road walking and only unpavemented on very quiet roads around Southfleet village.

Starts in Longfield (aka Hartley?) then climbs quite steeply to a wildflower chalk meadow along the top with long views to central London and singing skylarks. Then you gently descends through farmland towards the Thames. After crossing the noisy A2 it continues through woodlands
along the Ebbsfleet Valley, a short but substantial river that quickly spreads out into a wide wetland. I'm sure more housing developments will continue to creep up to the edges but it's a surprisingly green and tranquil gap in the urban corridor that dominates the Thames for so long.

Southfleet village has a pub serving food and some buses through the day, not evenings or Sundays. One route links Longfield and Northfleet (also Swanscombe High Street). There is a pizza van in the lay-by just N of the A2 on Hall Road. Or, three minutes further on Hall Rd is a huge supermarket and more buses.

NB the southern end is at Longfield Station, Longfield village is contiguous with Hartley.

I originally walked this from north to south, as HarNor 2 but found a change was needed after testing it. Most photos point that way too.

Uploaded on 24 Sep 2022, edited Sept 2023