Two Kent walking festivals have been cancelled because of government-imposed restrictions on group gatherings due to coronavirus, and another may follow.

The Heart of Kent Walking Festival, a new event based in the Maidstone area, had been scheduled for the weekend of April 25-26, and Elham Valley Walking Festival in Dover and Folkestone was going to be over the weekend of May 30-31.

Organisers of both festivals are planning for them to go ahead next year.

This year’s White Cliffs Walking Festival – the biggest event of its kind in Kent – scheduled to take place in the between August 27-September 1, has been put on hold, pending further government guidelines on group gatherings.

If these have been lifted by late June, then organisers may still go ahead with the event which encompasses Dover and Deal, but probably in a slimmed down format, with fewer walks than the 36 originally planned.

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