SU9972 : Kissing-gate to Steps up to JFK Memorial

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On going through this wooden kissing-gate, at Runnymede, you enter an area that is officially owned by the USA. In front are the 50 steep steps, which climb too and lead past the John F Kennedy Memorial. The steps are named “The Steps of Individuality” and are made of 60,000 individual axe-hewn Portuguese granite setts which rise steeply through the woodland. Each step represents a state of the USA.
This is on the route of the London Green Belt Way.