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Neworp one
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Distance

12km/7mi

Ascent

267m

Descent

175m

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This is a Slow Ways route connecting New Addington and Orpington.

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This is a Slow Ways route connecting New Addington and Orpington.

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New Addington
Grid Ref TQ3821362234
Lat / Lon 51.34240° / -0.01699°
Easting / Northing 538,213E / 162,235N
What3Words oasis.ozone.goals
Orpington
Grid Ref TQ4611465896
Lat / Lon 51.37333° / 0.09787°
Easting / Northing 546,114E / 165,896N
What3Words gates.deck.truth

Neworp One's land is

Arable 16.1%
Green urban 2.2%
Pasture 43.2%
Urban 38.2%
Woods 0.5%

Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018

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Derick Rethans

21 Jan 2024 Winter

I walked this on a cold Saturday mid-January afternoon, from Orpington to New Addington. It hadn't rained a lot in the previous week.

After climbing a little hill from the station, the route quickly went down hill, with views over the southern parts of Orpington (photo #1). It was quite windy for a bit, but soon I found myself on a footpath through a wood (photo #2). After crossing Farnborough's High Street, the route continued alongside the edges of fields (photo #3), and across some of them. The first time across Shire Lane was tricky. At the bottom of the next field, I headed along Bogey Lane. Farthing Street was a narrow lane, but no traffic (photo #4). The next crossing across Shire Lane was a little easier, and there was a footpath to the North of it, so no road walking was needed, except for a few meters west of New Road Hill along Downe Road. Before I could get on the field heading south, I did have to squeeze under a fallen over tree with spikes across a kissing gate (photo #5).

From here it was a slog up a newly ploughed field up the hill towards Biggin Hill airport, where a jet just took off. I made a little mistake as I missed the path towards Milking Lane Farm across the field. Instead, I walked first along the edge of the airport, before going around the edge of the field back to the gate where the path ended up. I had a good view of the airport's windsock here (photo #6). Crossing Leaves Green Road was easy, and there was a very bright red set of postbox+phone booth (photo #7).

From here on, the route became a little nicer (photo #8), with good paths alongside fields, and up another little hill (photo #9). There was a dodgy stile (photo #10), but there is a detour (and tiny short-cut) to get around it. Although there is a road here, there is also a permissive path along the edge of the field first, and then in between the field and the road on the other side of the hedge (photo #11). OpenStreetMap now has the updated paths, as the road was clearly marked as "private".

The route as shown on the east side of Vulcan Way wasn't really possible. There is a way around it: south along the edge of the field, and then straight at Vulcan Way through an open metal gate. There was also a lot of fly tipping here. The final stretch was along New Addington's residential streets down the hill towards the trap stop.


Daisy C

15 May 2023 (edited 16 May 2023) Spring

Green and pleasant walk with nice views over rolling hills. Very rural, from a kilometre from the New Addington start to three from Orpington it's entirely rural, with only two short bits on extremely quiet small lanes, although there are some busier roads to cross. It doesn't feel like London but is still inside the TfL price cap zone. The mapped line of this route fits the OS maps line, but the actual path line is a bit different, notably the permissive path on Shire Lane, field boundaries in the valley between Layhams Lane and New Addington and in the woodland near Vulcans Way (see John M's helpful map).

SAFETY NOTE for crossing Shire Lane (at TQ 4339 6342 closer to Farnborough) you are disgorged abruptly into the roadway with fairly busy, fast traffic and particularly poor sightlines. You have to literally stick your head and shoulders out to see, then briefly walk along it. But... locals take an informal path about 50m earlier on the right, through a small patch of woods. It comes out right opposite the next footpath, and has a wider opening between less dense bits of hedge, it definitely felt safer. The hedge gap there must be recent, it's not visible on Google Street View 2021.

The next point where the road meets Shire Lane (TQ 4267 6313 opposite Farthing Rd) is actually much safer than it appears on maps, only crossing it but no road walking is required. There is a permissive path (stiled, fenced and marked with Yellow Arrow local route signs) just north of the hedge. It rejoins opposite New Road Hill (TQ 4235 6293), where it is wider with a pavement.

Near Orpington Station is the small Crofton Roman Villa museum. Opens frequently but limited hours, see website. Farnborough and Leaves Green both have very attractive village greens, with nearby pubs. The long and steep sided valley (Furze Bottom?) after Leaves Green was particularly beautiful. The horse pasture was stained with yellow buttercups, and longer grass dusted in red and lilac by Sheep's Sorrel and Common Bent. A little later at Layham's Rd there's a warning about kicking and biting horses, but none to be seen. Down the hill just after this, the actual route goes north of the hedge line then around a field edge, although OS map paths and this route goes, impassably, south of that then through the woods.

Sometimes locals use parallel paths just outside the tree cover, which were nice in the lovely early-evening light. First at the meadow in Darrick & Newstead Woods just after Tubbenden Primary School. Secondly at Church Fields parallel to Tye Lane (aka Farnborough Fields, also used as public land). Third was just before the Vulcan Way Estate (John M's map of the actual path line was helpful) where the path goes through some woods with some flytipping but the locals have used a gap in the hedge by the industrial estate then walked along the field edge. And in New Addington I took the scenic route along the meadows of pretty Addington Vale instead of the less interesting roads over the hill.

Bus routes intersect at Downe Rd and Leaves Green Rd. Some stiles, short steps, kissing gates, and steep in places. I bravely (recklessly) walked in stout trainers, it has been fairly dry recently. Sometimes the mud was squishy but not wet, even bridleways were firm enough to walk on. Long trousers for nettles would be wise.

The route overlaps with other routes that have online detailled instructions plus local and natural history snippets. See Bromley Council Circular Routes for Farnborough and Leaves Green, Bromley CAMRA routes 7 & 8 plus the London Loop. Farnborough Village also has a local history website.


JohnMyerson

18 Feb 2023 Winter

I agree that this is a pleasant walk mainly across fields. I made use of the Brunch Shop (only just off the route in Tile Farm Road). The crossing of the A21 in Farnborough is OK but crossing Shire Lane is a little dangerous as it's narrow and busy with no sides to stand on. The mapped route through New Addington Industrial Estate doesn't exist. Turn left next to a culvert from the field path then go along the back of the factory and turn right up Vulcan Way to the pedestrian crossing on King Henry's Drive (see photo).


Rambler

12 Sep 2021 Summer

I was pleasantly surprised by this walk, which we completed Orpington to New Addington, September. The route, some of which followed the London Loop, was mainly through countryside, country lanes, farmer’s fields and woodland, which was beautiful. Some of these paths were quite overgrown, rough, and narrow, but easily identifiable if following the route on an app with location tracking enabled. The only point at which we lost the trail was as we came into New Addington through the industrial estate, but this didn’t matter too much, as we quickly got back on track. There were a couple of substantial inclines that left me rosy cheeked! You walk out of Orpington, along quite a busy road, but this quickly leads onto some quiet and pleasant back streets. The residential roads that you navigate into New Addington were also peaceful. Due to the rural nature of the majority of the walk, this would be muddy in the winter so would be worth wearing decent footwear. At one point, you skirt Biggin Hill Airport and we saw several light aircrafts landing and taking off, so it would be a great walk for plane spotters!.

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    JohnMyerson

    04 Feb 2023

    Brunch Shop in Tile Farm Road, Orpington for good food.

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