Hartley Wintney and Elvetham
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"A walk through time and social class on the outskirts of a thriving Hampshire village."
Walk directions
Leave the car park by the vehicle exit, walk up Walpole Gardens and turn left along Hartford Road. Turn left at the T-junction, cross the A30, then turn left and right onto the narrow surfaced path to the church of St John the Evangelist. Turn left, cross the A323 at the lights and walk across the green past The Cricketers pub and keep straight on.
Turn right up Park Corner Road passing the pond on your right, then turn left over a squeeze stile and turn right onto the signposted path around the edge of golf course. Pass the second tee and follow the fairway until reaching a cross tracks of paths, turn right, signed to Elvetham. Walk past the third tee and veer right after a small pond onto a gravel path. Pass a reed-fringed pond and the seventh tee on your left and keep ahead over the stile out of the golf course.
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Additional information
Terrain
- Field paths, minor roads and woodland tracks, 4 stiles
Landscape
- Golf course, wooded farmland and heath
Dog friendliness
- Can run free on Hazeley Heath, but not during ground bird nesting season
Parking
- Pay-and-display car park off Monachus Lane
Toilets en route
- At the start
About the walk
Today, golf is a relatively genteel pastime but, as you walk out across Hartley Wintney golf course, spare a thought for those who came here before you. For this was the site of the early 19th-century workhouse that served Hartley Wintney and a dozen of the surrounding parishes. Opened in the...
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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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