I took this walk route from a new series of published walks in the Faversham Area. They have been produced by the Faversham Enterprise Partnership and further information can be found at www.faversham.org/walking. This one is called the Syndale Valley Walk and we did a 8.6 mile loop through woodland, arable fields, parkland and pastureland.
There were seven of us for this walk and we set off from the village hall in Doddington. The weather forecast was for showers but the sun shone on us most of the time and we stayed dry. We headed towards Seed and Eastling and then on to Stalisfield Green. It was a great route for a spring walk as the woods were full of primroses, wood anemones and bluebells. There were also plenty of lambs in the fields plus a farm with free range pigs and hens. The paths across arable fields were well defined and luckily fairly dry. Several new kissing gates had been installed replacing the stiles making the route more accessible than we would normally expect.
We stopped for our packed lunches in an area of woodland in a valley which provided shelter from the wind. We then headed on to the magnificent Otterden Place where in 1725 the Revd Granville Wheler proved the existence of electric current! The route then took us back across fields and through more woodland to Doddington where we had a quick drink at the Chequers Inn before heading home.
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