Canterbury’s middle ring of footpaths and roads is more than ten miles long. I am walking it in easy stages. From home i walked up Lime Kiln road, leading to an old chalk quarry. The Elham Valley railway ran through the pit on its way to Folkestone. Half of the pit is now a housing estate intriguingly called Chineham. The other half, with white cliffs, is left to nature. Views of fields and orchards.
Turn left along the edge of a recently harvested maize field. Behind the hedge on the left is a sheer drop to the lime quarry. Turn left at Stuppington Lane opposite an oast house converted to residences. Hops no longer grown here. Cross the former railway by bridge EVL 2039.
Turn left onto South Canterbury Road and right into Puckle Lane. New housing where sea cadets used to meet.
I left the Ring here and headed home via Old Dover Road and Lansdown Road. Along a footpath/cycleway next to the railway. The brick wall has been decorated with pictures and a poem by Rumi. “A weed is a flower in a wrong place”
Pity that graffitists think they can improve the mural.
Rambling Brummie 