Description
Route
Start
1
51.30663, -0.90107Leave the car park by the vehicle exit, walk up Walpole Gardens and turn left along Hartford Road. Turn left at the T-junction, cross the A30, then turn left and right onto the narrow surfaced path to the church of St John the Evangelist. Turn left, cross the A323 at the lights and walk across the green past The Cricketers pub and keep straight on.
838 m
2
51.30714, -0.89617Turn right up Park Corner Road passing the pond on your right, then turn left over a squeeze stile and turn right onto the signposted path around the edge of golf course. Pass the second tee and follow the fairway until reaching a cross tracks of paths, turn right, signed to Elvetham. Walk past the third tee and veer right after a small pond onto a gravel path. Pass a reed-fringed pond and the seventh tee on your left and keep ahead over the stile out of the golf course.
1.39 km
3
51.30754, -0.88473Walk along the right-hand edge of the field, then go through the gap in the far corner and continue to cross over the footbridge, fronted by a kissing gate, and then along the enclosed path between the stream and a fence to a stile. Turn left along the green lane to a kissing gate and keep ahead across the open field towards the red tiled roof of Arlots Farmhouse, and leave the field via a stile beside the right-hand gate in the far hedge.
2.03 km
4
51.31240, -0.88255Turn left along Elvetham Lane to the A30 at Hartfordbridge. Cross the main road with care and keep ahead up the road until it bends sharply to the right.
2.76 km
5
51.31757, -0.89688Keep ahead through the kissing gate and follow the waymarked route through the paddocks to a pair of gates and a plank bridge. Continue through a kissing gate and along the enclosed path, then go through another kissing gate and keep ahead across the grassy clearing to reach a footbridge that crosses over the River Hart.
3.02 km
6
51.31737, -0.90235Cross over, turn left and follow the woodland path over a bridge. Walk alongside the river then bear right up the slope to a junction of paths under overhead power lines, turn left and cross three more plank bridges and walk alongside a stream. Cross two further bridges before climbing to a summit and a firm, wide track.
3.43 km
7
51.31175, -0.90371Turn left and, ignoring all turnings, keep left and drop down through the trees to a kissing gate. Keep ahead past the houses onto the narrow path that eventually leads out onto Hunts Common, opposite Hartley Wintney Golf Club. Turn right into the High Street, then right again to the car park.
6.47 km
Finish