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Day 3 - Ashford to Headcorn

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The route (all links open in a new window) Start point: Ashford International w3w: ///loops.noting.toast Distance: 15 miles Accompanying video Ashford International isn't a place I'd describe as "in the countryside". It's a sprawling, soon to be, city but for todays walk it served the purpose as the starting point. I loaded up my trusty map on my Garmin watch and set off due west towards Headcorn which was my chosen finishing point for the day. My perception of walking through Ashford was that it was not going to be great. I thought the route I had chosen was going to take me along a particularly busy road but within a few miles I was pleasantly surprised as my watch beeped at me to tell me there was a turning coming up. The route peeled away from the busy hubbub and took me toa much quieter street which meandered past  Repton Park  (not Repton Park estate which is something vastly different). This Repton Park is a nature reserve that was purposely sectioned off ...