The Queens College Arms, Pamber End

This circular walk brings your to visit Pamber End area.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 5.77 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 1h 45 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 44 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 42 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 98 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 75 m

Description de la randonnée

Start: The Queens College Arms, Pamber End (RG26 5QR) Grid ref. SU 612 583

(S/E) Go out of the pub, turn towards Tadley and take the marked footpath on the left. Follow this across the field and into a wood. The path shortly comes out in the graveyard of the Priory, and you join the drive and go out onto the road.

(1) Turn left past a primary school and follow the road round a sweeping left-hand bend.

(2) Take the footpath on the right. This stays at the edge of the wood on the right for some 400 yards, then goes into the wood. After about 400 yards more you reach the edge of the wood, but ignore the stile.

(3) Take the path sharply off to the right. This soon leaves the wood at a stile, when cross the fields passing some riding paddocks to Rawlings Farm. Go through this to a lane.

(4) Bear right and take the footpath off to the left. In 400 yards this meets a lane, which cross taking the footpath ahead, which in 1000 yards comes out at the moated Wyeford Farm.

(5) Turn right and follow the drive as far as a crossroads on the public road.

(6) Turn right for 400 yards to reach the drive of the Priory.

(1) Turn left and retrace your steps to the pub.(S/E)

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 75 m - The Queens College Arms, Pamber End
  2. 1 : km 0.67 - alt. 80 m - Junction left
  3. 2 : km 1.12 - alt. 82 m - Footpath right
  4. 3 : km 1.8 - alt. 94 m - Sharp right
  5. 4 : km 2.36 - alt. 82 m - Lane
  6. 5 : km 3.94 - alt. 88 m - Wyeford Farm drive
  7. 6 : km 4.79 - alt. 85 m - Crossroads on the public road
  8. S/E : km 5.77 - alt. 75 m - The Queens College Arms, Pamber End

Practical information

Start: The Queens College Arms, Pamber End (RG26 5QR) Grid ref. SU 612 583

Driving to start: About fourteen miles from Newbury, take the A339(A34)S, then the A339 towards Basingstoke. In Headley, take the left turning to Ashford Hill and Tadley, where take the A340 for three miles to reach the pub.

Refreshments: The Queens College Arms, a large pub that regards itself as something of a destination - it has quite a nice garden at the side. The beer is good, and they serve a wide variety of meals and snacks.

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