The George and Dragon, Wolverton Townsend

This circular walk brings you around Wolverton Townsend area via Sandford Woods.

Technical sheet

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 6.79 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 00 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 31 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 31 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 112 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 83 m

Description of the walk

Start: The George and Dragon, Wolverton Townsend (RG26 5ST) Grid ref. SU 565 587

(S/E) Turn right out of the pub, then in about 600yds find a footpath left along the side of a garden, passing sheds to a stile into fields.

(1) Follow the footpath forward for about 800yds when it goes left across a plank bridge into a wood. In some 200yds the footpath reaches a road.

(2) Turn left for 200yds to a gate on the right where a footpath starts. Go forward, keeping to the left of the fields, and go through a field gate on the left.

(3) Then bear right, passing some ponds and follow the footpath uphill between fences to emerge on a lane by a large house.

(4) Turn left and follow the lane past another house and a large spoil heap, and when the lane turns to the left, keep straight on along a footpath. This is joined by a chalky lane coming in from the right. Follow the lane for about 400yds.

(5) Then take a footpath on the left. Follow this through a field and a gap between woods, then bear left in a field and follow round the left hand side of this around the back of a bungalow.

(6) Cross the drive to this, and go forward down a wide grassy lane. Follow the footpath across a tussocky field to a rather high stile. From this, follow the track passing woods which after 700yds becomes a footpath soon meeting a metalled road.

(7) Turn left for 150yds, then right onto a track into the woods.

(8) Go left at an intersection, and follow round in a curve to the right after which the track comes out past some cottages into Wolverton Townsend.(S/E)

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 97 m - The George and Dragon, Wolverton Townsend
  2. 1 : km 1.13 - alt. 90 m - Stile into fields
  3. 2 : km 1.81 - alt. 91 m - Road - Left
  4. 3 : km 2.55 - alt. 85 m - Ponds
  5. 4 : km 2.94 - alt. 91 m - Lane by a large house
  6. 5 : km 3.78 - alt. 98 m - Footpath left
  7. 6 : km 4.43 - alt. 98 m - Back of a bungalow - Drive
  8. 7 : km 5.65 - alt. 112 m - Metalled road
  9. 8 : km 6.51 - alt. 102 m - Intersection - Woods
  10. S/E : km 6.79 - alt. 97 m - The George and Dragon, Wolverton Townsend

Practical information

Start: The George and Dragon, Wolverton Townsend (RG26 5ST) Grid ref. SU 565 587

Driving to start: About ten miles from Newbury. Take the A338 towards Basingstoke, and after the Kingsclere by pass and the Sandford Springs golf club, take the second left turn signposted Wolverton Townsend. The pub is on the right about two miles down this road.

Refreshments: The George and Dragon, an isolated country pub that has decent draught beer and serves good sandwiches and bar meals. Now under new management.

Find more walks at Newbury Pub Walks here.

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