How to get there - From A26 2 ml NE of Tonbridge centre, turn right by petrol station for Golden Green. As you reach Golden Green, turn right and continue 3/4 ml to river at Hartlake Bridge. (map)
Suggested Launch Site - Roadside parking and a nice platform under the bridge for a put in, upstream for Tonbridge and downstream for Oak Weir at East Peckham
General
Description - Oak Weir and return, 4 miles, one lock (route); centre of Tonbridge and return, 5 miles, 3 locks. (route) At Tonbridge you can do the circuit of Barden Park and drop in on the Tonbridge Canoe Club (just below and opposite the castle) or continue upstream to Leigh (see Tonbridge - Leigh section)
Flat country with pieces of woodland on either side of the river. No development on this stretch except at Tonbridge itself.
A memory from 1955; you could buy cherries in Tonbridge at 10 pence per lb (10 new pence per kilo) and have change from your pocket money to hire a canoe on the river!
