Cycling: Lenham Loop

This turned into a bit of a two-parter, flint puncture, then the GPS stopped when I turned the bike over, doh!. However, this is a good loop and with a bit more time I'll extend it out to the pilgrims way. I started from the Dog and Bear car park in lenham, up over the A20 towards Doddington on the Faversham Road, then left onto West street and up past Ashdown to Ashdown Hill. At the T-Junction the Byway is opposite and it goes up Timbold hill, a typical 4x4 carved out start, with a grass middle leads to a wooded area covered in stones mud and leaves, a good hard climb to the top then turn right along the road. The second Byway is just down on the right where two cottages sit, this is Coalpit Lane towards Wichling, this is a good downhill, heavy horse use at the time of the ride. Then out onto the road and turn left, then take the first right and then left at the crossroads, there is a bridleway a couple of hundred yards along the road on the right. This is a great small track down the hill, once at the road I turned right towards Sprats hill, up the Hill just past Solomon's Cottages is another byway (on the right), this is a good short downhill with a couple of sweeping turns. At the end of this is the start of the bridleway through King's Wood, a promising trail that leads through a wood onto a soul destroying grass field, and then through another gate to a climb up through the woods to the road. (Another puncture stopped me carrying on, so I fixed myself up, and headed back down to Lenham), ready for another attempt.