Tenrye one

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Walked on a gloriously sunny day after a record breaking driest March since... A lovely route with steep wooded valleys spread with wood anemones and wild garlic, a pair of red kites leisurely dancing together across the landscape, blackthorn and cherry plum blossom, squeaky lapwings, a path through an apple orchard just waiting to be walked at blossom time.
But the GPX line is poor quality. That's fine if you are copying it onto a paper Ordnance Survey map but it is tiresome and maybe misdirecting if using an app, especially one like the Slow Ways app that is based on Open Street Maps not OS. It's definitely over 50m away in places and there's a few places where the green lines on OS don't match actual positions of paths too as they've shifted. It may be frustrating, say, if you are trying to put on extra speed approaching Rye to make sure of an hourly train. (Which was cancelled!)

So I'm going to check my GPS track against the recent version I uploaded and if it's sufficient I'll put a review there, or resubmit if needed.

In the meantime enjoy the walk but it is more challenging than you might expect given the geography. There are many gates (two unopenable field gates you have to climb over), unrestored paths across ploughed fields, long steep woodland steps, several very tall or very shonky stiles, one of the footbridges has 3 rotten planks, a crumbled riverbank, fencing leaning heavily into the path which could be tricky soon. Will report to council. There were many sheep grazing but I saw no other livestock apart from distant horses. But one field had warnings re cattle and a few shielded electric fences. On the plus side there was no winter flooding as mentioned in the other review (between Dumbourne Farm and Fairview Farm?), and very little mud in general (plenty of dried out wellies-mud though) and the Horse and Cart pub in Peasmarsh has reopened. The Swan in Wittersham, shown on OS, has been closed for a while, but they do have a shop. I didn't enjoy going through Peasmarsh as the A268 traffic felt (was?) fast and noisy after such a peaceful walk and if you aren't going to the Horse and Cart maybe a quieter way to the south could be found. If not I'd definitely recommend taking the Peasmarsh footpath closer to Jempsens (medium sized supermarket) instead of through the caravan site.

Very nice undulating path with lots of admire. It can be a bit treacherous underfoot, and sometimes flooded in winter, between Smallhythe Place and Tilder Gill south of Tenterden but if you're ready for that then it isn't a problem.

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