Wine and Port at Small Hythe

1 From the vineyard car park, walk left towards the telephone box, and then turn right and walk between two gardens to cross a stile. Follow the hedgerow to the bottom of the field. Continue across the next field, cross a bridge and a stile. Walk across the bottom of the field keeping the hedgerow on your right, and then maintain direction crossing two more stiles to a yellow waymarker. The track now runs along the side of a hedge, through a metal gate and across the field to a stile. Continue in the same direction crossing another stile, and then walk up the side of a field. Go over two more stiles, then where the track splits, go straight ahead to go over another stile and a bridge. Climb the steps cut into the bank and walk around the edge of a pond, then follow the footpath ahead. Your route now takes you over a stile and a small bridge, across a field and up to a gate.

2 Continue through the gate, go straight ahead and, at another gate, take the steps over a bridge and up the side of a hill. Continue ahead at a crossing of tracks, and then cross two bridges before you come to a marker post. Go left along the side of a wood. Turn right at the next marker post, pop over a stile and walk diagonally across the field. Continue to cross a stile, then turn right past the gates at Belcot Farm. Walk past the farm and follow the track into the wood. Your way now leads past gardens on the outskirts of Tenterden.

3 At the road in the housing estate, cross over and walk ahead, pass a pond and then nip over a stile on your left. Follow the track over a bridge and across the field, following the line of the overhead cables. At a waymarker, go down some steps, across the stream, over the stile and carry on ahead through the field. Pass a small pond and head for the stile beside the electricity transformer. Cross the stile, turn right and continue to the main road. Turn left, walk past a house called Ormsby, and then turn left after the white timbered house and follow the footpath over a stile. Walk ahead through an old orchard, then turn right by a caravan and walk up the track, and over a stile to a fence by the bottom of the gardens. Turn left here and walk down the track, with young trees on either side, to cross a stile in the fence in front.

4 Walk diagonally towards a large tree, and then on, over two more stiles, before turning right along a road. Continue to a pond, cross a stile, go through the field, through a gate, over two more stiles and join the road. Go through a gate across the field, turn right at another gate and descend some steep steps on to the road - be careful here as there's no pavement. Follow the road downhill towards Small Hythe and your starting point. Small Hythe was once a busy port and a prosperous shipbuilding centre - hard to grasp today, as the coast is miles away.