Hiking the Darnley Trail in Shorne Woods Country Park in Kent, named after the Earls of Darnley, who previously owned Cobham Hall, Mausoleum and Cobham Park and much of the farm and forestry land we hiked.
So much history under our feet: this route straddles the Roman Watling Street, the HS1 railway and the A2 trunk road. These woods concealed the accommodation blocks for RAF Gravesend airfield whose pilots flew Hawker Hurricane fighters in World War 2. The RAF left in 1956, the accommodation blocks in Ashenbank Wood were demolished and by 1970 the airfield had become Riverview Park housing estate.
