Circuit of Kent 2023 - After a much missed absence we’re back. Now organised by Flamme Rouge Events who also organise the Hell of The Ashdown and Kentish Killer sportives, the Circuit of Kent is an iconic sportive that has been run since 1997! The 2023 sportive is run in association with Rotary Club Sevenoaks and our charity partner is the Heart of Kent Hospice.

Free parking for all riders at Event HQ - Sevenoaks Prep School. 

Liquid Medal for all Finishers - a can of beer from Kent’s leading craft brewer Westerham Brewery!

Info for Riders

130km/ 1100m - Grand Circuit of Kent

Leaving the start at Sevenoaks Prep school the route soon reaches the hamlets of Stone Street and Dunks Green before climbing up Roughway Hill providing a great view across the Kentish countryside from the top. Continuing via Offham to West Malling, an attractive market town, then to East Malling, after which a long steady climb precedes a sharp descent to cross the A26, then the railway lines and the river Medway at Wateringbury before climbing again up Gower Hill and Smart’s Hill before a fast sweeping descent to the beautiful village of Yalding where the route crosses the river Medway via the old pack horse bridge.

You will be on level roads to Claygate where the 130km and 80km routes divide. Continuing on quiet level roads through beautiful countryside that will be showing early signs of Autumn, the fruit trees still laden, via Staplehurst and through Frittenden then to Biddenden and Sissinghurst before looping back to Frittenden.  After a short and surprisingly sharp climb up to Curtisden Green it is downhill to Claygate where you will join the Petit Circuit of Kent route to the finish…...

78km/ 786m - Petit Circuit of Kent

The 80km route runs from Sevenoaks through West Malling, down to Claygate and back through Hadlow

Following the same route as the Grand Circuit of Kent to the route split at Claygate. After this you face a moderate climb to Brenchley with a great view north across the Garden of England toward Paddock Wood from the top. It is now a moderate but fast descent, thereafter mainly flat roads via the Hop Farm at Paddock Wood and East Peckham to the village of Hadlow. With some 17km's to the finish the road crosses the A227 at Shipbourne and the gradient increases gradually until you reach the hamlet of Underriver where the road climbs steeply up Carters Hill with just 3kms to go! Have you left enough in reserve not to walk it? At the top of Carters Hill it is largely downhill for the final 1km to the finish.