Take the footpath to the right of the play area, cross a footbridge and bear right to cross the main footbridge over the River Avon. At a crossing of tracks, take the track straight ahead, passing to the right of cottages. Head uphill to a junction and go straight on, downhill to a gate. Turn right along the field-edge and bear left in the corner to join a path that passes through the valley bottom beside a stream to shortly cross a footbridge on your right.

Follow the path through marshy ground to cross a bridge over the Avon. Bear right over a small bridge and keep left through a paddock beside the thatched cob wall of a farm to a gate. Bear right along the fenced path beside the drive to the road. Turn left then, in 0.25 miles (400m), reach a right turn.

Either walk up the tarmac road towards Springbottom Farm or join the path through the spinney on your right for views across to Stonehenge. Pass a covered reservoir and some barns, then descend to the farm complex. Just beyond the barns, bear left with a red byway arrow on to a track beside paddocks.

Keep to this track through the downland valley (Lake Bottom) for nearly one mile (1.6km). Where it becomes metalled take the arrowed path right, between new fences, into woodland and bear left uphill. Cross a stile and continue ahead. Once out of the trees, keep right along the field-edge, with views left to Lake House, to a stile.

Cross the lane and take the bridle path right in front of a thatched house. Go past (not through) a gap on your left, to descend gently. Cross a drive and bear left to cross two footbridges over the Avon. Pass beside Durnford Mill and follow the drive out to the lane.

Turn left and walk through Great Durnford, passing the church and drive to Great Durnford Manor, following the public road right, uphill through woodland. Descend and take the waymarked bridle path left beside Fairwood House.

Ascend steeply through the edge of Ham Wood. On leaving the wood, do not curve left and down; bear right along a narrow path through scrub to a gate. Keep right along two fenced field-edges to a gate.

Maintain your direction through the pastureland, not losing height, eventually easing right towards a field boundary corner. Continue for 0.25 miles (400m), following a field-edge. Keeping this line, descend the field-edge to a gate to rejoin your outward route. Retrace your steps back into Amesbury and the car park.