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A DRIVE OF
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AN INSPIRING JOURNEY THROUGH THE WEALD OF KENT AND EAST SUSSEX PROVIDES STUNNING SCENERY, AMAZING ARCHITECTURE AND AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THE NEW INFINITI QX30 CROSSOVER THROUGH ITS PACES. BY MARTIN GURDON
It’ s easy to take where you live for granted. My home is in the Weald of Kent and, I’ ve tended to whistle down its lanes and byways without giving them the attention they deserve.
Marden has a real village feel
Some are great driving roads, and I began to pleasantly pipe dream about using familiar byways to make a journey for pleasure rather than necessity. I’ d take a circular route that would be
For this to work I needed an interesting car. So
lend me a British-made and engineered QX30, with four-wheel-drive, seven-speed transmission and a willing 2.0 diesel engine, I’ d found my car, and a dream became a reality.
Sussex coastal town of Rye, and I decided to begin and end the end the journey in the pretty village of West Farleigh. To reach it, I climbed out of Maidstone on the A26 Tonbridge Road.
upward curve. About four miles later I swung left onto the B2163 and headed for the 14th-Century Teston Bridge, a single-lane stone structure.
I then passed Teston Country Park, a lovely public space of grassland and meadows. The road wriggled through dense trees as I wound into West Farleigh, an attractive place where the locals must have strong ankles, as it’ s on a slope.
Pulling over, I quickly programmed the QX30’ s sat nav system, then headed into the sort of would be Yalding. The often-unmarked lanes I took were frequently
hedgerows and trees. Soon, I dropped down into Yalding, which has of negotiating high-hedged lanes and I reached
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