The Crown and Garter, Inkpen Common

Start : The Crown and Garter, Inkpen Common (RG17 9QR) Grid ref. SU 378638

(S/E) Follow the track from the far end of the Crown and Garter car park for about 400 yds, when it becomes metalled by Prossers Farm.

(1) Continue for 500 yds past some tiled cottages to reach a T-junction by West Woodhay House.

(2) Turn right for another 500 yds.

(3) As the lane goes round a sharp right-hand corner, take the first footpath on the left, and go right to get between the (electric) wire fence and the right-hand field boundary. Follow the path slightly uphill for 1000 yds: after the end of the fence it becomes rather overgrown, and shortly emerges onto a metalled lane at a junction.

(4) Turn right downhill for 500 yds to a footpath on the left.

(5) Fork right where it divides, entering a wood.

(6) You pass through a farm gate into the parkland behind Kirby House, and you leave it by a similar gate into a lane. Follow this through farm buildings.

(7) As you approach a metalled lane, take the wooden gate to the right and pass close in front of the redbrick farm cottage, cross a paddock, go through a further wooden gate, and keep right to follow the field edge to a kissing gate with a view of Kirby House.

Go half left across the field and through another kissing gate, cross a lane, and go forward 250 yds to meet another lane.

(8) Go left for 150 yds and take the footpath through a gate on the right. This crosses a gravel house drive and comes to a wooden gate from which you can see the pub. Follow the path along the field edge until you meet the track you started out on.

(1) Turn left for the pub. (S/E)

Start : The Crown and Garter, Inkpen Common (RG17 9QR) Grid ref. SU 378638

Driving to start & parking : About seven miles from Newbury: take the back road to Hungerford, passing the Craven Arms and the White Hart, Hamstead Marshall. In a further mile, go round a sharp right-hand bend, and in 150 yds take the left turn (not currently signposted) and follow for a mile to a crossroads by a small cemetery. Turn left, and in 400 yds fork right SP Inkpen Common. The pub is in ¾ mile on the left - the car park is up the lane just before.

Refreshments : The Crown and Garter is quite an upmarket pub/restaurant, with a good selection of draught beers. A coffee shop attached provides cheaper sandwiches and light meals. It's OK to take drinks from the bar into the coffee shop.

Find more walks at Newbury Pub Walks here.