Is this a weed?

[TheQueenOfTheNight]

This climber has just appeared, and it's several metres long. Can you identify it please?

I have this too! Around here it grows in the hedges bordering the fields. Don't know what it is though. Doesn't flower.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietaria_judaica
Possibly?

Chloworm did yours just appear overnight too?

Fenella thanks, but the leaf is different

No it grows up every year and I pull it out. It climbs over everything if you leave it.

Ajuga?

Ok think it’s a wild clematis like traveller’s joy or old man’s beard.

The leaves look like the clematis I have in my garden.

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/plants/wild-flowers/travellers-joy/

Makes sense. Southern England, chalky soil, grows in hedgerows…

Apparently it’s this:

It's wild clematis and it's a menace, I am fighting it in my front garden but without much success!

Thank you! I should have recognised it as a clematis - it's now in my compost bin.