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Ightham Mote's circular walk to Knole | National Trust

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Ightham Mote is an outstanding 14th-century moated manor house, surrounded by

peaceful gardens and water features. Highlights include the Grade I listed dog kennel,
Great Hall, Tudor painted ceiling, and the private apartments of the donor, Charles Henry
Robinson.

Turn left down the lane for a few metres, then turn right, back onto a footpath (not now
the Greensand Way). Follow through the woods, passing stables and kennels at White
Rock Farm where you will join a vehicle track, then onto a road (the Seal to Underriver
road).

Cross the road and enter Shepherds Mead Drive, then turn right onto a footpath
(Greensand Way) to continue with a eld on your left until reaching a Bridleway junction.
Turn right onto the Bridleway for a few metres, then turn left up an incline to a stile
leading into a horse training eld. Follow straight ahead, round the edge of the eld with
the fencing on your left, turning right at the far end to follow the tree line. About two thirds
along, look for an opening and stile in the fence, by a hump in the eld. Cross the stile
and follow the path through the wood to emerge at the side of a road, with the gate to
Knole Park in front of you on the opposite side of the road. Enter Knole Park by passing
through the left hand kissing gate and walk straight ahead, keeping the fencing on your
right hand side. Proceed over a crossway and continue straight ahead on a surfaced
track until you reach a broad crossway with a stony track. Turn right for a short distance,
then turn left just beyond the tree line to follow the grass path ahead, turning half right
towards the walled garden and house.

Moderate
5 hours
8.5 miles (13.6 km)

From the car park at Ightham Mote, walk through the staff car park, turning right onto the
Bridleway, down past the house. Turn Right onto Mote Road, and after about 20yds
(18m) turn left into the entrance of Mote Farm. (Look for the yellow Greensand Way
arrow). Walk past the farmyard and bear to the right. Proceed past Wilmot Cottage and
an old brick built lter house, to the steps on the right. At the top of the steps, turn left
and continue past another footpath on your right to a National Trust stile. Follow over a
further two stiles to a lane at Rooks Hill.

IghthamMote

Walking
What could be better than a day out in the Kentish countryside incorporating two
National Trust properties? Follow our circular walk from Ightham Mote, along the
Greensand Way, passing through areas of outstanding natural beauty to Knole Park,
before returning to Ightham Mote via the Duchess Walk, Godden Green and Broadhoath
Wood.
Ightham Mote, Mote Road, Ivy Hatch, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 0NT

Ightham Mote visitor reception, grid ref: TQ584535

Explorer 147
Dog friendly

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Terrain

Contactus

Continue walking parallel to the garden wall on the right, at the end of which turn right
and walk towards the front of Knole House. Walk past the main entrance to Knole House,
onto the Duchess Walk. Turn right down the roadway in front of you and then left after a
few metres. Continue down the stony track, following the rise and bend to the right and
keeping to the track across the golf course (this will bring you to the north gate and exit
from the park). Pass through the kissing gate and follow the track ahead (ignoring a
narrow path to the right) until you reach a wider path forking to the right. Follow this path,
passing a house and crossing a driveway, through a gate by a stable yard. Walk past the
stable, through another gate and down the road at Godden Green.

Telephone:01732 810378

Knole

Email:ighthammote@nationaltrust.org.uk

Set within a deer park, Knole has links with kings, queens and nobility as well as literary
connections with the novelists Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.

A mixture of footpaths, bridleways, elds and woodlands. Paths climb and

descend throughout the walk. Dogs are welcome on leads in the surrounding
estates

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Website:http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ightham-mote/

Turn right to the Bucks Head, then continue down the road for a short distance taking the
track on the left up to the White House. Continue past the Godden Green Clinic, bearing
left and ignoring paths to the right. Go past a house at the crest of a rise, down another
steep incline then up to another house onto a road. Cross the road and continue ahead
on a footpath, initially with a fence on your right, then straight on across a eld to a gate
at a road with a forked junction. Cross the road, turning slightly right to walk southeast
along a metalled track with orchards on both sides (ignore the paths to either side).

Green approximately 40 minutes

When the orchards end, continue down the bridleway into Broadhoath Wood and down,
turning left to join another track by a pond and gate. Continue with the stream on your
right, past the Hopper Huts to Mote Road. Cross the road and walk up the footpath at the
north end of the Ightham Mote garden, up a few steps to the entrance driveway to
Ightham Mote. Turn right to enter the car park and complete the walk.

By road:

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Howtogethere
Address:
Ightham Mote, Mote Road, Ivy Hatch, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 0NT
By train:

Borough Green and Wrotham 3.5 miles (5.6km); Hildenborough 4 miles (6.4km);
Sevenoaks 7 miles (11.2km). Journey time from London Victoria to Borough

6 miles (9.6km) north of Tonbridge on A227; 6 miles (9.6km) south of Sevenoaks

The peaceful gardens at Ightham Mote include an orchard, water features, lakes and
wooded walks

on A25; 16 miles (25.7km) west of Maidstone on A20/A25

By bus:

End:

Ightham Mote visitor reception, grid ref: TQ584535

Nu-Venture 404 from Sevenoaks, calls Thursday and Friday only, on other days
alight Ivy Hatch Village (St Mary's Lane), 0.75 mile (1.2km) walk. Please note, no
Saturday or Sunday services. Autocar 222 Tunbridge Wells to Borough Green,
alight at Ightham. No Sunday service, 2 mile (3.2km) walk. Arriva 308 Sevenoaks
to Gravesend, hourly service Monday to Saturday alight Ightham Common, 2 mile
(3.2km) walk.

Facilitiesandaccess
Toilets and refreshments available at Knole and Ightham Mote
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