Break and rest points: Edenbridge - two stations, buses, decent shops, and a very pretty high street; Hever Station; Uckfield Rd nr Hever - Greyhound Inn 100m to south; Markbeech - Kentish Horse and nearby Falconhurst Farm Shop (coffee, baking); Cowden Station - 750m on path (from https://what3words.com/saying.slice.hedge); Cowden - Fountain Inn it is also a very pretty charming village. I joined them from Cowden Station into the village before testing this route so now I can miss out that bit while testing one of them out....

Daisy C

I walked this route today (February) from Tunbridge Wells to Cowden - it took me 3.5 hours plus a break I'll explain it as though I went from Cowden (as that's the title) but the photos are generally looking the other way! If you start at Cowden then you have largely farm fields to walk to until Ashurst at 4.5 miles which has a railway station. You will continue up the hill and come out on to a small, quiet road and which you walk down the hill about 600m to Groombridge. Groombridge has a pub on the route, 6 miles from Cowden, 4 miles from Tunbridge Wells, The Crown Inn, which serves food. 8 miles from Cowden and 2 miles from Tunbridge Wells you walk past the lovely pub at High Rocks. There is a lovely path along the river (you have to cross the quiet road by the pub) and then you end up at a housing estate where the developer seems to have built over the right of way but you can walk past the houses to walk briefly along the pavement before turning up the steep hill onto Tunbridge Wells Common....

Jon Peet