July 2013
22.7.2013 Section 2 (Rest)
22/07/13 22:42
The blisters have healed, I am waering the right socks and the weather is sunny but cool.
With other words ideal conditions to finish the second section of the LL.
Boarding the 52 bus close to home I reach the place where I stopped last time: Rectory Lane/Sidcup Hill.
A short walk through build-up parts of Sidcup one gets to the first big open space ( still a part of the River Cray valley ) with the Coca-Cola Bottling plant at the distance
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Follwing the path a slight climb gets the walker to Sidcup Place an old medieval esate which housed during the WW I a well-known hospital which provided pioneering plastical surgery.
Managing the two-level junction of the A222 and the A20 one reaches via some subways the entrance to another local nature reserve: Scadbury Park.
Through rough grass areas, passing a forest of magnificant redwood trees and thick forest one reaches the remains of an old moated manor house. The Scadbury family lived here in the 13th century and gave the area its name. The ruins are not accessable but clearly visible across the moat. A local archeological society is trying to discover the secrets of this place.
In the meantime the sun is high and it's not nice and cool anymore.
Temperature must be aroung 30 C but thank God I am in the middle of the woods with the trees giving shade and coolness.
Walking on one reaches St.Paul's Cray Road ( A208 ) which needs to be be crossed to continue the LOOP. Now we are entering Petts Wood, National Trust land, which houses right next the path a granite column to the memory of William Willett of Chislehurst a benefactor of these woods and a staunch campaigner behind the Summer Time Act of 1925.
Petts Wood derives it's name from the Pett family, master shipwrights from Deptford, who leased the woods in the 16th century. After WW 1 an appeal raised money and thus saved it from development. On we go through the woods until we reach the railway lines of the Chislehurst Junction. A trainspotters paradise as one has to use three footbriges across the various lines until one finally reaches the edge of Jubilee Country Park, the end of the second section of the LL. A short walk to Petts Wood Stationand I can board a train which gets me home.
Some photographic impressions taken during the walk can be found here.
This concludes the 2.section: 7 ¾ miles, 135 ½ m to go
With other words ideal conditions to finish the second section of the LL.
Boarding the 52 bus close to home I reach the place where I stopped last time: Rectory Lane/Sidcup Hill.
A short walk through build-up parts of Sidcup one gets to the first big open space ( still a part of the River Cray valley ) with the Coca-Cola Bottling plant at the distance
.
Follwing the path a slight climb gets the walker to Sidcup Place an old medieval esate which housed during the WW I a well-known hospital which provided pioneering plastical surgery.
Managing the two-level junction of the A222 and the A20 one reaches via some subways the entrance to another local nature reserve: Scadbury Park.
Through rough grass areas, passing a forest of magnificant redwood trees and thick forest one reaches the remains of an old moated manor house. The Scadbury family lived here in the 13th century and gave the area its name. The ruins are not accessable but clearly visible across the moat. A local archeological society is trying to discover the secrets of this place.
In the meantime the sun is high and it's not nice and cool anymore.
Temperature must be aroung 30 C but thank God I am in the middle of the woods with the trees giving shade and coolness.
Walking on one reaches St.Paul's Cray Road ( A208 ) which needs to be be crossed to continue the LOOP. Now we are entering Petts Wood, National Trust land, which houses right next the path a granite column to the memory of William Willett of Chislehurst a benefactor of these woods and a staunch campaigner behind the Summer Time Act of 1925.
Petts Wood derives it's name from the Pett family, master shipwrights from Deptford, who leased the woods in the 16th century. After WW 1 an appeal raised money and thus saved it from development. On we go through the woods until we reach the railway lines of the Chislehurst Junction. A trainspotters paradise as one has to use three footbriges across the various lines until one finally reaches the edge of Jubilee Country Park, the end of the second section of the LL. A short walk to Petts Wood Stationand I can board a train which gets me home.
Some photographic impressions taken during the walk can be found here.
This concludes the 2.section: 7 ¾ miles, 135 ½ m to go
