DOG WALK KENT

DOG WALK KENT

Bluebell Hill Loop
ME5 9RG

Parking
You can park at Bluebell Hill Picnic Site which you find in wherever you get your maps and that's where this walk starts

Dog Walk Kent
A walk of about 6.5km (4 miles) thank you to kentdowns.org.uk - allow 2 to 2 1⁄2hours. There are steep steps up and down, woodland glades, historic tracks, megaliths and extensive views. Sounds pawsome!

Cafes and Pubs
(Squirrel) Nutkins Tea Room open 7 days a week love dogs and are at 116 Common Road within Squirrels Riding School but open to all. Also Bluebell Tearoom is dog friendly in Bluebell Hill Village on the Maidstone Road s-paw-lt for choice!


Helen's doggies loving their lives in the snow!


Bluebell Hill White Christmas vibes

Walk along Mill Lane until a sharp bend to the right.

Continue straight ahead on to a footpath, when the path becomes unfenced, walk within the edge of the wood. There may be horses grazing here. Keep walking ahead, after the horses’ field the path runs parallel and quite close to the M2 motorway. Newly planted mixed woodland borders the path. When the path reaches a T-junction (with a bridge over the motorway to the left) turn right and walk between the yards of Cossington Fields and straight on between arable fields.

Cross over Bell Lane, go through a kissing gate, and walk straight ahead on a footpath across an arable field. At the edge of the wood turn right, then at the next field corner, turn left into the wood over an unusual stile made of big stones.

Where the path forks, take the right hand branch. The path winds downwards with many steps.

The path eventually meets a track – the North Downs Way (NDW), turn right here.

Very soon the track crosses the cutting of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.

After passing over the railway, leave the petrol station on your left and walk down hill (on NDW) to pass under the A229 road. Turn left and then very soon turn right to rejoin the Pilgrims Way (marked NDW).

When you reach the road (Rochester Road north of Aylesford) cross over with great care and walk up the track on the right (North Downs Way)

Return to the path and continue up hill and then up some steep steps. When you reach the road turn left and walk on the footway until you pass under a footbridge then cross one side road (Salisbury Road). Continue beside the busy road (the A229 again) until the old road branches off on the left. Follow the old road. After a short while this becomes a footpath which runs parallel to and below the main road with extensive views to the west.

The path ends at Common Road, turn left and Blue Bell Hill Picnic Site is on your left.

Walk credit Kent Downs National Landscape website

Dog Walk added 20/02/2026, information last updated 20/02/2026