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Start: The Furze Bush, Ball Hill (RG20 0NQ) Grid ref. SU 424 632
(S/E) Walk about 100yds towards Newbury and turn right onto a footpath that seems to go through a private garden. The first stile is very awkward, but the adjacent automatic gate responds to pressure. The footpath bears slightly right and joins the drive to a stud, but follows straight on to meet a road.
(1) Turn right and in 100yds left down a track that makes a circuit of a rather derelict farm, then take the footpath on the far side of the buildings. This goes slightly uphill over fields, then drops down to join a road by the East Woodhay Village Hall.
(2) Turn left, take the right fork.
(3) In 150yds go right over a stile onto the footpath that bears to the left over the field past the back of Rectory Farm to join a green lane that comes out on the road by the side of the drive to the Old Rectory.
(4) Go right for 200yds, then right again onto a footpath by the side of an impressive wall. Follow the footpath down into the dip and up the other side to a gate and stile onto the road.
(5) Cross this and take the footpath to Hayes Farm.
(6) Turn right onto the kinked track that joins a metalled lane in 500yds.
(7) Go right and left for 400yds till this lane meets another at a T-junction.
(8) Then go left to find the footpath on the other side right. Follow this through a thick hedge to the right, then downhill to cross a stream.
(9) In 200yds bear left and left again at the next stile. Go straight on this field path till it reaches a metalled lane.
(10) Go straight on to the T-junction with Ball Hill Road.
(11) Turn right for the pub. (S/E)
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