
West Kent - Groombridge, Gillridge and Harrison's Rocks.
A walk among hills, valleys, streams, rocks, and railways, with several fine view points.
Some facts about the sights of the area
Groombridge railway station is now a station on the Spa Valley Railway (SVR). Once a busy station serving four directions, it closed in 1985 to British Rail services. A new station the other side of Station Road bridge was opened by the SVR in 1997 as part of a standard gauge heritage railway to Tunbridge Wells West. The SVR heritage line now runs from Tunbridge Wells West to Eridge on the Uckfield mainline.
Harrisons' Rocks are a series of sandstone crags. The site is a notable example of a periglacial tor landform developed in rocks of the Ardingly Sandstone Member of the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation. It is popular with rock climbers and is the largest of the cluster of local outcrops known by climbers as Southern Sandstone.
Penns in the Rocks is an early 18th-century redbrick house, built for the family of William Penn of Pennsylvania. The house is set opposite a natural outcrop of monumental sandstone rocks, and in the 20th-century was home to Dorothy Wellesley, the Bloomsbury poet and friend of WB Yeates. She erected the temple which faces the front of the house, and which is dedicated to ‘The poets who loved Penns’.
Mott's Mill is a rural hamlet on this walk. Their annual scarecrow festival sees over two dozen quirky handmade creations dotted around the village, all in aid of charity and community spirit.
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