After the recent storms its suffered from a few fallen trees. Its muddy and slick with chalk and clay, but a good start, the trail crosses the Faversham road on a slight hill and you pick up the pilgrim's way further up the lane, this is a great track (although slippery and muddy with heavy motorcycle and 4x4 use), and is open on the right hand side looking down towards the A20. Just past a few houses on the left there is a byway that rises strait up the hill, this was a complete shit of a ride, trees across the track and no grip, had to walk and carry the bike.
At the top of the hill the trail levels off on to the road, I turned right here, and followed Waterditch road to the byway on the left, this is the other end of the trail from my last trip out to Lenham and is a good farm track, dual tyre tracks (sometimes rutted), leading to a hedge lined trail (brambles are growing into the path), it leads on a pleasant descent to the junction with the old railway track byway, up the hill over the crossing, and we're back on the road. From here I followed the Ringshill road, to the left hand turn onto Stalisfield road, the bike was getting heavy with mud and the new DIY front mech cover was struggling to keep the mud out.
The bridleway entrance is on the left in the valley, the signpost from this direction is a little hard to see at speed and I missed it. But once back on the route I was not disappointed, this is a cracking trail through some open fields (2 x gates) and down into a small wood (Bowl Wood, Kennelling Wood and out into Spuckles wood), at the end the path forks with a footpath going to the right, take the left fork, it goes slightly uphill to a trail across the field.
Through another gate and cross the Hillside Road, to continue on the bridleway through to Church Road, the trail is a farm track with a great small descent through a wood to the road. Turning right at the road junction there is an entrance to the next bridleway about 200 yards up the hill on the left, this is a bit of a treat, a wide open grass valley crossing, up the other side of the valley is another gate (see view from the top in pic), this leads through a small wood, and out to a farm, and we are back on the road again.
This was the last trail for today, time and energy were running out, a month out of the saddle and the excesses of Christmas taking a toll. I will be back to finish these off soon, and will also return when it's dry, as some of these need a return visit!
