Introduction
I’m writing this rather a long time after the walk, but it’s coming back to me faintly! I think my mum and I did this walk following instructions from an issue of the Woodland Trust magazine.
We started by walking from the station along roads for a short distance, past the parish church.
A small lane took us to a slightly hard-to-find public footpath, a fenced path in fields used for grazing horses. The ground was a little on the damp side. We approached a large electricity substation before entering woods (Woodland Trust woods, presumably).
Once in the woods, again it was a little hard to spot the point where we were meant to turn right - the walk description we were using mentioned an iron gate, which was no longer evident. However, after backtracking a bit, we found the correct path. This led us on through the woods, and beside an ancient defensive ditch called (six-year-olds prepare your laughing muscles) Faesten Dic.
We left the woods by a path across more horse pasture, then followed a narrow road called Parsonage Lane for a distance.
At the bottom of the lane we crossed over a main road at traffic lights and had a look at the outside of a small church (St James’s) before following the path through the meadows to the River Cray.
We then followed the river back into Bexley.
Back in Bexley and not in a particular hurry to leave, we wandered down the high street.
