Around Roman Rockbourne
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"Roman discoveries link Rockbourne and Whitsbury, close to the Wiltshire border."
Walk directions
Turn left out of the village hall car park and soon take the lane right towards Manor Farm. Turn right, signed to the church, and cross the gravel drive, in front of a white house, to turn right up a stepped path to St Andrew’s church. Continue along below the churchyard to reach a junction of paths. Keep straight on behind the school and houses, ignoring three paths on the right, then cross a stile and turn immediately right to go through a gate.
Follow the field edge down to the bottom corner and a junction of paths. Turn left and cross a stile to a gate near an electricity substation and take the narrow path ahead over a barrier. Walk through a paddock to the next stile and through the next paddock to a lane. Continue ahead, along the edge of a meadow, to a stile. Pass over the stile and out of the gate in front of Coutts Cottage to reach a track, opposite Marsh Farm.
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Terrain
- Field paths, woodland bridleways and tracks, 9 stiles
Landscape
- Rolling fields, areas of woodland
Dog friendliness
- Off lead in woodland, but keep under close control on farmland and paddocks
Parking
- Rockbourne village hall car park can be used but with prior consent only (bookings@ rockbournevillagehall.org.uk)
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
The long, gently winding main street in Rockbourne is said to be one of the prettiest in Hampshire. This peaceful and sheltered village is tucked in rolling downland on the borders with Wiltshire and Dorset, and the road is lined with Tudor and Georgian houses and thatched and timber-framed...
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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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