Around Elham
From the church walk down Duck Street, then head uphill to a footpath on the right. Take the bridleway up steps through trees on the right. Go through a gate and continue diagonally uphill through the field beyond, making for the stile in the far corner. Follow the track beyond through two more metal gates to the road.
Cross here and follow the footpath ahead, through a gate, then along the field edge. The path goes downhill through a couple more gates, then up along a field-edge past a pylon.
Go past a small wood, through a gate and continue straight across the large field ahead bearing half-right towards a corner of planted woodland just left of a line of telegraph poles. At the bottom of the slope, go through a gate which takes you into an army training area (a sign tells you to keep to the waymarked path), then walk up the woodland margin. At the corner of the trees, walk straight up the field to a stile and the road. Walk ahead to the road junction. The gated drive on your right leads to St Martin's Church.
Turn left and continue until you pass The Oast House. Turn left just after this, then take the right-hand path to the Old Rectory, signed 'Private Road'. Go through a kissing gate immediately in front of the house, then cross a meadow. After a further gate your route leads over a field. At the far side, go through another gate, turn left and walk along a field-edge. After another gate the path goes steeply downhill to the valley bottom, then rises again, through another gate, to join a concrete track up to the farm. Where the track bears left, take the right-hand gate and walk through the farm buildings (there may be livestock at this point). Go through a gate and turn left when you reach the road.
At Standardhill farmhouse fork right and continue under a line of pylons. Just after a copse the lane bears left. Take the footpath ahead between fields. Bear diagonally left across another field following the clearly marked path. On the far side, find a kissing gate and two steps down to the next field.
Keeping the fence on your right, follow it round to the corner, then downhill through another gate. Head straight across the next field and bear left along the field-edge. Look for a gate on your right, followed by a concrete footbridge leading over the Nail Bourne again. Walk diagonally across the field in the direction of the church. One more gate brings you up to a lane and back to the village square.
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