A loop around Alice Holt Forest
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"Follow the beautiful Lodge Pond Trail around this popular and historic woodland."
Walk directions
Walk through the car park from the visitor centre and turn left at the purple waymarker post (Lodge Pond Trail – LPT) opposite the large central fingerpost and signboard. Keep ahead past the turning on your left and descend to a forest track.
Turn left along LPT for 45yds (41m), then turn right down the steps, cross a brook and climb the steps on the other side. Follow the winding trail past a bench seat and down the steps to cross a stream. Bear left beyond the steps on the other side, climbing steadily on the undulating route before the path levels out to a crossways by a bench.
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Terrain
- Well-marked tracks and woodland paths, muddy in places, several flights of steps
Landscape
- Undulating mixed woodland
Dog friendliness
- Popular for dogs
Parking
- At Alice Holt Forest
Toilets en route
- In the visitor centre
About the walk
There’s been a forest at Alice Holt since about 5000 bc. Iron Age people were using the local clay, water and fuel to make pottery here in the 1st century bc and those potteries expanded into a major industry in the years following the Roman invasion. Many of the trees had already been felled to...
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About the area
Hampshire’s varied landscape of hills and heaths, downlands and forests, valleys and coast are without rival in southern England. Hike across the chalk downland of the north Hampshire ‘highlands’, meander along peaceful paths through unspoilt river valleys of the Test, Itchen, Avon and Meon, or explore the lonely salt marshes and the beautiful medieval forest and heathland of the New Forest.
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