Sunningdale, Wentworth and Fort Belvedere

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With your back to the Nags Head, turn left and walk down the High Street, keeping the Anglican church on your right and the Baptist church on the left. Pass Church Road and continue along Bedford Lane. Cross a brook and turn right immediately past some bungalows to follow a path cutting between hedgerows and fields. At the A30 turn left, cross the road and walk a short distance to a sign on the right for Shrubs Hill Lane.

Follow the leafy path to a junction at a close-board fence and turn right by the bridleway/footpath sign. Curve left, make for a roundabout and swing left, looking for the footpath between  'Rosemullion' and 'Highgate'. Follow it through the woods, round to the right, and when you join a wider path on a bend, keep left. Skirt the golf course, bearing right and keeping the course to your left, cutting between trees and bracken. After passing though a small clump of woodland, veer immediately left and follow the path across the fairways, keeping left at a junction by a bunker. Veer right at the first fork, into the trees, and follow the path – a fairway to your left. The path, becoming tarmac at this point, swings left and across the fairway to a junction with a tarmac drive at a footpath signpost.

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  Terrain  - Enclosed woodland paths, estate drive, paths and tracks, path across golf course and polo ground
  Landscape  - Semi-residential area
  Dog friendliness  - Lead required across golf course and polo ground
  Parking  - On-street parking in Sunningdale village
  Toilets en route  - None on route
About the walk
In the closing weeks of 1936 newspaper headlines were dominated by one of the saddest and most dramatic chapters in the history of the monarchy – the abdication of Edward VIII, the uncrowned king who chose to give up the throne for the love of a woman, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. He knew his...
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Berkshire consists of two distinct parts: the western half, which is predominantly rural, with the Lambourn Downs spilling down to the River Lambourn and the Berkshire Downs to the majestic Thames, and the eastern half of Berkshire, which offers plenty of opportunity to get out and savour open spaces. Reading and Newbury are the county’s major towns, and the River Kennet flows through them both.
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Sunningdale, Wentworth and Fort Belvedere

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Additional information
  Terrain - Enclosed woodland paths, estate drive, paths and tracks, path across golf course and polo ground
  Landscape - Semi-residential area
  Dog friendliness - Lead required across golf course and polo ground
  Parking - On-street parking in Sunningdale village
  Toilets en route - None on route
About the walk
In the closing weeks of 1936 newspaper headlines were dominated by one of the saddest and most dramatic chapters in the history of the monarchy – the abdication of Edward VIII, the uncrowned king who chose to give up the throne for the love of a woman, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. He knew his...
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Berkshire
Berkshire consists of two distinct parts: the western half, which is predominantly rural, with the Lambourn Downs spilling down to the River Lambourn and the Berkshire Downs to the majestic Thames, and the eastern half of Berkshire, which offers plenty of opportunity to get out and savour open spaces. Reading and Newbury are the county’s major towns, and the River Kennet flows through them both.