- Sun 25 May 2025
Sevenoaks Station, Sevenoaks
A Day in the Garden of England
10:00
Age 18 & over
£50
- 60 km gravel riding + 900 m ascent
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Event overview
Ightham, Plaxtol, Old Soar, Seal, Wrotham, Snodland – these places sound so intriguing, well worth exploring this beautiful patch of the Garden of England.

Overview
- 37.3 miles/60km
- 2953ft/900m climb
- 60% off-road
- Average pace - 10/12kmph
Highlights
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Fully guided and paced
Charlie, your experienced guide and gravel riding enthusiast, will pace you so you achieve success.
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Gravel/CX bike
Best completed on a gravel/CX bike, although MTB's will work as well.
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Semi supported ride
Rider leader will carry a basic tool kit for trail side repairs.
Event photos
Event details
- Average fitness
- Event village
- Newcomers
- First aid
- Food stations
- Hilly
- Single start
Route
- The orchards and woodlands, crisscrossed by ancient paths and tracks, are dotted with medieval magnificence and decent pubs – definitely a great day out on a gravel bike.
- Meet outside Sevenoaks Station (4 trains an hour from London), where the first task is to climb up to Sevenoaks’ medieval town centre.
- Despite the modern(ish) street-level shopfronts, the half-timbered houses still prevail. A turn left brings us to the different world of the Knowle deer park and the magnificent Jacobean Knowle House, the ancestral home of the Sackville-West family. Riding through the deer park, along some ancient sunken roads, leads to another architectural gem, less grand than Knowle.
- Ightham Mote is a romantic moated manor house nestled in a wooded valley, quite beautiful and worth a quick coffee stop.
- Moving on, past a Japanese Garden, through the sleepy village of Plaxtol, which is sure to charm you, and nearby Old Soar Manor, the route climbs into the Mereworth Woods.
- Lunch at West Malling in one of the many pubs that cluster around this pretty village centre before heading to Snodland on the Medway River.
- Pilgrim’s Way, another ancient trackway, follows the base of the Downs, through Wrotham, another very old village once busy with pilgrims en route to Canterbury but now basking in peace.
- It’s only a few more miles along Pilgrim’s Way until we turn sharp left into the woods of the Greensand Ridge and back to Sevenoaks.
Map

- Map
Included
- The GPX route
- Guide/pace rider
- Planned feed stops
- Bail points/times
- Basic trail side repairs
Not Included
- All food and drink
- Return train fare
- Age 18 & over
- Entries open
- Enter online
Entry fees
Entry fee
£50.00
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