The Wellington Arms, Baughurst

This circular walk brings you to visit Baughurst area.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 4.36 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 1h 20 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 22 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 22 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 108 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 78 m

Description de la randonnée

Start: The Wellington Arms, Baughurst (RG26 5LP) Grid ref SU 584 604

(S/E) Return back up the road (North) for 100 yds and take the bridleway on the left, which brings you out onto a metalled lane in 700 yds.

(1) Turn right then shortly left onto another metalled lane that changes into a grassy bridleway.

(2) When this turns to the right, turn left through a metal gate onto a curious footpath that descends through a narrow wood to another metal gate.

(3) Go very sharp left through yet another metal gate. The footpath continues with a wood on the right, then crosses the open field to a stile at the entrance to a wood. Go down some steps to a footbridge over a small stream. (This is not the footpath on the map - you will pass near this later).

(4) Now bear right as the footpath continues through woods for some 300 yds, emerging into a field. Cross this to a metal farm gate, then turn left to an almost adjacent similar gate. Through this turn immediately right onto a footpath.

(5) Ignore a right fork, go up through a slightly boggy area through a wooden gate and follow the grassy path near a left hand field boundary to a road. Turn right for a few yards to Hillside Farm.

(6) Then take the footpath on the left. Keep near the right-hand side of the field, through a narrow section, and then into another field that leads to a farmyard. Go down a short track to a metalled lane. Turn right for 100yds before taking the footpath to the left. Follow this as it appears to be the drive to a red brick house.

(7) Take the marked turn left over a footpath near an ornamental pond and a summer house. Go through a wooden door and follow the path near the left-hand side of fields, crossing a gravel track from Church Farm on the left, and in a further 500 yds fork left into a boggy lane that comes out in the pub car park.(S/E)

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 100 m - The Wellington Arms, Baughurst
  2. 1 : km 0.8 - alt. 86 m - Metalled lane
  3. 2 : km 1.32 - alt. 88 m - Metal gate - Path descends
  4. 3 : km 1.58 - alt. 81 m - Metal gate
  5. 4 : km 1.88 - alt. 87 m - Footbridge over a small stream - Woods
  6. 5 : km 2.32 - alt. 84 m - Y-junction
  7. 6 : km 2.69 - alt. 87 m - Hillside Farm - Footpath left
  8. 7 : km 3.49 - alt. 97 m - Redbrick house - Ornamental pond
  9. S/E : km 4.36 - alt. 100 m - The Wellington Arms, Baughurst

Practical information

Start: The Wellington Arms, Baughurst (RG26 5LP) Grid ref SU 584 604

Driving to start: About twelve miles from Newbury. Take the A339 towards Basingstoke, and turn left at Headley for Ashford Hill. At the end of this road, turn left at the T-junction and follow the road past the Ship, uphill and past the Pineapple, then turn right for 1 mile passing the Badgers Wood, then a further mile and a bit to find the Wellington on the left.

Refreshments: At the top end of The Wellington Arms pub catering. Draft beer is available.

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