(S/E) Turn left from The Walhampton Arms pub into Monument Lane and follow the lane for half a mile to the Burrard Monument. Take the footpath to the right of the monument, which leads down the side of the wood.
(1) At the bottom, turn left along a side road that reduces to a track leading to Undershore Road. Cross and turn left along the pavement, passing the Pier Garage and the Isle of Wight ferry terminal.
When Monument Lane joins from the left, cross and continue along the main road using the pavement on the left.
(2) Return to the right-hand side of the road when the pavement runs out, and pass the Macdonald Elmers Court Hotel. Turn right into Lisle Court Road and walk past some houses, keeping straight on at a junction.
(3) Continue beyond Lisle Court Farm until the road bends suddenly left; turn right here into a rough driveway, passing a few houses to a gateway. Continue along the hedged track beyond, which leads towards the Solent.
(4) In front of a gate and stile, turn left through another gate onto a permitted path (the path ahead beyond the stile offers a potentially muddy short there-and-back detour to the Solent foreshore). Follow the permitted path across a field, then in the next field bear slightly left to a gap in the far left-hand corner.
Turn right and skirt the right-hand side of the next field (a seasonal campsite), passing above a lagoon to a stile into woodland in the far corner.
Follow the woodland path beyond (wet in parts) with a fence on your left. After a stile, cross the bottom of a narrow grassy area and then continue alternately through wooded and grassy areas to another stile with a distant view left to Pylewell House.
Beyond this, turn right through a gate onto the foreshore and turn left along the narrow strip of grassy shingle.
(5) Shortly afterwards, cross the outlet of a creek via a wooden footbridge and continue along the shore until you reach the small parking area at the bottom of Tanners Lane.
Turn away from the sea and follow the lane inland for half a mile, passing a few cottages on your right. At a T-junction, bear left.
Pass a private road into the Pylewell estate on your left, then bear left at a triangular junction, crossing a cattle grid.
(6) When the road bends right beyond a farm, take a driveway straight ahead. When the driveway swings right, cross the stile ahead of you and follow the subsequent path to a footbridge. Cross to overlook a fishing lake, where you turn right.
(7) Leave the lakeshore along a narrow path on the right, which leads past a gate and a waymark, then runs along an avenue of lime trees and below a cricket pitch to a kissing gate into the track servicing it. Turn right and follow the track to the main entrance drive of Pylewell Park.
Pass through the kissing gate opposite and continue along the bottom edge of two fields separated by a stile (and with more views to Pylewell House to your left). The wooded field edge bears right to a crossing of another track, where you head straight on along a grassy track.
(8) At a kissing gate leading into a public road (Shotts Lane), turn right along the lane. Go straight on at a crossroads by an entrance lodge. After 150 yards, turn left into a farm track that crosses the former RAF Lymington airfield.
(9) Pass the buildings of Snooks Farm at the other end and continue to the road. Turn left for 50 yards, then turn right through a gate into a signposted footpath in the wood. After running along a garden fence on the left, and then the edge of a golf course on the right, the path emerges into fruit fields.
(10) Follow the hedge ahead of you, then cross a farm road and skirt to the left of a wooden hut (a farm shop) and continue along the track ahead. Cross the service road for the golf club and look half-right to find a narrow path that continues ahead, with the golf course to the right.
This path emerges into a gravel driveway by a bungalow; follow the driveway out to the road. Turn right along the lane to the Monument. Bear right and then left along the lane to retrace your steps to the Walhampton Arms. (S/E)
