Harswa three

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Takes a quiet route into Southfleet than HarNor2, along a no-through-road. This is basically
HarNor 3 - Northfleet Station + Thames Way + SwaNor 1.
It's a mostly quiet route through scenic countryside, but there are two sections beside busy (but generously pavemented) roads, one is the 8-lane A2.

If you are planning public transport to/from Hartley, the start point is actually Longfield, it's not in next-door Hartley at all.

There is a pub, and bus-stops in Southfleet if you want to rest, eat or just end the journey early. There is also a pizza/burger van on the layby just north of the A2 bridge, or a huge supermarket if you go a little further north. You could cut the journey short at Northfleet Station - doing HarNor 3 instead, which might also work better if you are getting a train onwards (same trains at both).

There are a couple of shortish steep footpaths, some rutted tracks, at least one kissing gate and a couple of wet flushes where it gets muddy. The footbridge over the HS1 rail lines at Ebbsfleet is also a bike route, so no steps but it does have metal width restrictions to stop motorbikes which would probably block wheelchairs too

Takes a quiet route into Southfleet than HarNor2, along a no-through-road. This is basically
HarNor 3 - Northfleet Station + Thames Way + SwaNor 1.
It's a mostly quiet route through scenic countryside, but there are two sections beside busy (but generously pavemented) roads, one is the 8-lane A2.

If you are planning public transport to/from Hartley, the start point is actually Longfield, it's not in next-door Hartley at all.

There is a pub, and bus-stops in Southfleet if you want to rest, eat or just end the journey early. There is also a pizza/burger van on the layby just north of the A2 bridge, or a huge supermarket if you go a little further north. You could cut the journey short at Northfleet Station - doing HarNor 3 instead, which might also work better if you are getting a train onwards (same trains at both).

There are a couple of shortish steep footpaths, some rutted tracks, at least one kissing gate and a couple of wet flushes where it gets muddy. The footbridge over the HS1 rail lines at Ebbsfleet is also a bike route, so no steps but it does have metal width restrictions to stop motorbikes which would probably block wheelchairs too