Surrey Walking Club

The next club race is the SWC 7m in November and the next club stroll is on the 25th August with David Hoben as conductor

Welcome to the Surrey Walking Club. The Club was originally formed in 1899 as a race walking club. We are still involved in race walking but we now promote a range of walking related activities including ultra distance walking and we have our own successful long distance social walking section known as the Strollers.

SWC 7 miles in November (Date to be determined). Click here for more details

Sunday 25 August Herne Bay to Canterbury East (linear). Conductor: David Hoben. Start Herne Bay at 09:45 NOTE REVISED START TIME (St Pancras 08:25). Frequent return trains from Canterbury East. Car drivers can park at Faversham, and catch train (09:31) to Herne Bay. There are also trains from Canterbury East to Faversham at 02 and 32 mins. past the hour, journey time 11 or 14 minutes.

Route Description: From Herne Bay station; follow Oyster Bay Trail (which is also a Sustrans route) to Whitstable for lunch - many cafés and pubs or picnic lunch. This to be followed by the Crab & Winkle Trail, the route of Britain’s first passenger carrying railway, the Canterbury and Whitstable line (1830), to end at Canterbury East station.

Distance 15 miles (approx.).

Click here to see the 2019 Programme up to the end of September including photos and reports of 2019 strolls. Click here to access the strolls data base and photo gallery. This includes stroll reports and photographs from 2008 to 2018.