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Start: The Swan Inn, Newtown (RG20 9BH) Grid ref. SU 476 639
(S/E) Walk up the road and cross at the roundabout refuge to get onto the North side of the road to Basingstoke. Follow the footway to reach a footpath to the North in 300 yds.
(1) Almost immediately bear left off the track through a gate and uphill through a second gate and into woodland. Follow the track in a Northerly direction where a perimeter fence will come into view on the right. Follow the track North as it deviates to the left through less dense woodland.
(2) At a T-junction (just after a Y-shaped oak tree) turn right and head East until you pick up the perimeter track, then a fence on the right surrounding the disused cruise missile bunkers.
(3) Follow the fence East and when it turns right, go a further 100 m.
(4) Turn right (South) down to the mock up fire training aircraft. Follow the path round the perimeter of the airfield heading generally North, where you can pick up the airfield control/decontamination centre along a path to the right and through a gate. Return and continue the path North until you pick up the perimeter track East which will run alongside a fence to the right housing industrial units.
(5) When the control tower on the North side of the airfield comes in line on your left, turn North to pick up a wide path to the centre of the old runway.
(6) At this point, you can shorten your route by turning left (West) down the centre of the former runway. Or you can continue to the control tower North and find your way round the northern perimeter of the airfield heading West back to retrace the footpath South to the Swan.(S/E)
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