The walk starts from the car park of Ashdown House.
(S/E) From the upper section of the car park, go straight into the wood on a good path. When you reach a broad ride with a good view of Ashdown House to the left, turn right and continue along the ride to the end of the wood. Turn left onto the path just inside the edge of the wood, to its corner. Turn right onto a path across a field, and continue past a stand of trees until you reach the Ridgeway.
(1) Turn right along the Ridgeway, cross over the road (B4000), and continue until you reach the woods. It is more pleasant to walk through these woods than along the track, so take the path into the woods on the right then bear left on the path that is parallel to the Ridgeway. Cross the track and over a man-made bank to continue through the wood until you see a wooden gate and the signs to Wayland's Smithy through a small gap in the hedge on the left. Go through this gap and along the path opposite to reach the site of the ancient monument.
(2) From Wayland's Smithy, return back into the wood, turn left and continue to the end, then rejoin the Ridgeway. When it starts to climb towards Uffington Castle, there is a stile on the left next to a National Trust sign saying "White Horse Hill". Go over this and a second one to the right, then climb directly up to the Castle.
(3) Walk round the embankment of the Castle, then aim for a gate back onto the Ridgeway. Turn right along it for a short distance, then turn left onto a signposted bridleway that runs along the edge of a field. At the end of the field, it makes a small 'dog-leg' to the left, then continues along the edge of the next field and past a stand of beech trees on the right. The route then continues as a public footpath straight across Woolstone Down gallops, marked by wooden posts with black and white stripes. (There is a stand of trees at the southern end of the gallops that is not marked on OS maps).
(4)Go through a gap to the right of a gate, and turn right onto a bridleway going downhill along the right hand edge of a field (the boundaries shown on the map on either side no longer exist). When you reach a track to the right (with a wood to your right), the bridleway continues straight ahead across the field and then onto another track. Take the track straight ahead and climb the hill to a T-junction of tracks. Continue slightly to the right on a footpath that crosses the field across the field ahead, aiming slightly to the right of the bush on the skyline. A weather vane will come into view, and then a gate.
(5) Go through the gate, then turn right to follow the fence (this is Access Land, so you are free to roam as long as you keep dogs on a lead). Turn left to follow the fence downhill to a gate onto the road (B4000). Cross over, and return to the Ashdown House car park (S/E)