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The Vanguard Way is a long distance walk of around 66 miles from East Croydon in outer London to Newhaven on the South coast of England. It passes through the counties of Surrey, Kent and East Sussex, between Croydon and Newhaven, East Sussex. It connects the London suburbs to the south coast, via the Ashdown Forest and the Cuckmere valley. The walk was developed in celebration of the 15th anniversary in 1980 of the Vanguards Rambling Club, who named themselves after an occasion when they returned from a walk travelling in the guard's van of a crowded train.
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Starting at the Thames at Erith and finishing on the opposite north bank at Coldharbour, the Loop (London Outer Orbital Path) is 150 miles long, passing through numerous woods, commons and parks and on waterside paths alongside the Grand Union Canal and London rivers such as the Colne, Crane, Cray, Darent and Ingrebourne.

Littleheath Woods (64 acres) is now a collective name for a number of woods which, over the past 100 years have grown together, with a field on the north eastern side. The wood consist of Littleheath Wood, Foxearth Wood, part of Queenhill Shaw (which derived from Queens Hale's Shaw) and part of Gee Wood. Geologically Littleheath Woods is very interesting because of the variety of beds and this variety has meant the development of many types of fauna and flora on each soil. Littleheath Wood is on Blackheath Beds which overlie Woolwich Beds and Thanet Sand. There is evidence of a quarry on the Blackheath Beds, this would have supplied gravel and sand.