Connect Headcorn with Slow Ways
We’re creating a network of walking routes that connect all of Britain’s towns, cities and national parks
more walks and reviews are needed to fully connect Headcorn to the verified network. Can you give a hike and help?
Give a hike!Help connect Headcorn
Many Slow Ways have several route options. Some will be better than others, or good for different reasons.
Our goal is for each Slow Way to have at least one route that is verified and surveyed. To be verified – and get its snail badge – a route needs at least three positive reviews.
Give a hike and help get a for every one of Headcorn’s Slow Ways.
Walk to Headcorn from further afield
| Slow Way | Route | To do | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cranbrook—Headcorn
|
Crahea one |
|
U U |
|
Pioneer me | Distance 13km/8mi | Ascent 92m | Descent 147m | ||
Headcorn—Ashford (Kent)
|
Heaash one |
|
3 X |
|
Review me | Distance 23km/14mi | Ascent 117m | Descent 101m | ||
|
Headcorn—Lenham
|
Healen one |
|
U U |
|
Pioneer me | Distance 12km/7mi | Ascent 171m | Descent 76m | ||
Headcorn—Tenterden
|
Heaten one |
|
U U |
|
Review me | Distance 16km/10mi | Ascent 179m | Descent 145m | ||
Maidstone—Headcorn
|
Maihea one |
|
|
U U |
|
Double check | Distance 19km/12mi | Ascent 182m | Descent 175m | |
Marden—Headcorn
|
Marhea one |
|
|
U U |
|
Double check | Distance 13km/8mi | Ascent 53m | Descent 55m | |
|
Marden—Headcorn
|
Marhea two |
|
U U |
|
Review me | Distance 12km/8mi | Ascent - | Descent - |
Fancy stretching your legs a bit more?
If you’ve polished off all of the routes between Headcorn and its neighbours, how about walking its whole web?
This includes the great ring of routes that join its neighbours to each other!
Collective progress
46% of Headcorn’s six route options are drawn, reviewed, surveyed and/or verified
7/7
5/7
1/7
0/7
5 people have contributed to Headcorn’s Slow Ways
0 people have pledged to walk and review a route
1 people have surveyed a route in Headcorn
84km out of 109km have been walked and reviewed
97km of reviews have been shared in Headcorn
Latest Updates
Marden Meadow nature reserve has some spectacular flowers at this time of year so my plan was first to test the improved PadMar 2 Slow Way from then test this route which goes very close to the reserve (150m down Marden Rd). The moved paths made this route a fail before I'd begun, so instead of a true test, I tried out their suggestions hoping perhaps to recce a good MarHea 3. This review was following the spirit of this route and should be of some help. Might help if you just really want to go to Marden Meadow or if someone down the line wants to design a new route instead of testing/using MarHea 2...
Daisy C
The correct route is to follow the path along the railway fencing then cross the field just to the north of the path that terminates....
DjWalker
Hardly any gradient to this walk but the beginning (Leaving Headcorn) along the Smarden Road is to encounter a very fast stretch of road which some may feel intimidated by....
DjWalker
Not the best walk, a lot of missing way markers and finger posts many of the paths are overgrown there are also trees across the paths. Ploughed fields without the paths being reinstated. In Staplehurst the route directs you down a dead end and indicates a footpath that doesn't exist, i checked on kent Footpaths....
Mat Young
Great walk a few overgrown paths otherwise pretty accesable....
Mat Young
The next section from Chart Sutton area across fields and then turning left towards Sutton Valence was reasonable walking. Care needed crossing A274 road into Sutton Valence ( lovely views) Steeps steps down from upper part of Sutton Valence and then below castle there was a step and very overgrown path ( very wet at the time ) Dropped down by fruit farm and very sticky ground towards Heniker Lane which I managed to follow around Weald of kent GOlf Course and then finally lost definitive route and ran out of time just after the Golf Course....
And
Slow Ways added Crahea one, a new walk from Cranbrook to Headcorn
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Heaash one, a new walk from Headcorn to Ashford (Kent)
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Heaten one, a new walk from Headcorn to Tenterden
Walk this routeSlow Ways added Maihea one, a new walk from Maidstone to Headcorn
Walk this route
Headcorn’s Slow Ways starting point
Grid ref
TQ8343244229
Lat / Lon
51.16789° / 0.62237°
Easting / Northing
583,432E / 144,229N
what3words
Fancy stretching your legs a bit more?
If you’ve polished off all of the routes between Headcorn and its neighbours, how about walking its whole web?
This includes the great ring of routes that join its neighbours to each other!
Facilities
Users have reported that the following facilities can be found within 1km of Headcorn's meeting point
Public toilet
Wheelchair accessible toilet
Supermarket or convenience shop
Restaurant, cafe or pub
Accommodation
Accommodation for under £50 a night
Campsite
Bothy
Free wifi
Mobility scooter hire
Off-road wheelchair hire
Disabled Parking
Train station
Bus stop
Ferry
Official ‘Walkers are Welcome’ town
Help us improve this information by signing up or logging in and carrying out a quick survey of Headcorn