Around the Chutes
Turn left out of the car park and then right at the T-junction. Fork left at the war memorial, then turn left again by the 'Chute Cadley' village sign. Keep left and take the bridle path, a track, through the edge of woodland. Continue between hedgerows and descend into Chute Standen.
Turn right at the T-junction, then, where the lane swings left to Standen House, keep straight on up a grassy track of Breach Lane. At the T-junction, turn right and then left along the edge of woodland. Continue for 0.5 miles (800m) to Chute Causeway.
Cross straight over the causeway and later steeply descend the track to a metalled lane in Hippenscombe Bottom. Turn left, then right and swing right, then left between farm buildings. Fork right along a grassy track (passing to the right of a long, breeze-block barn), which soon swings left, and steadily ascend to a crossing of ways.
Turn sharp right along the gravel track. At Fosbury Farm, bear right and walk beside woodland. Follow the track into the woods and, as you leave the woods, cross a stile by a gate and briefly leave the marked route to pass through the ancient earthworks into Fosbury Ring on top of Knolls Down.
Fork left on a grassy track never far from the woodland. Pass to the right of a tiny screened pond, then swing left on a track, exit the ring and walk down the left-hand field-edge. Cross the stile in the corner and go around the left edge of a large field. Descend to a cottage in the corner. Turn right along the lane and go through the kissing gate almost immediately on your left. Keep to the right-hand field-edge to a kissing gate and road and turn right into Vernham Dean.
Take the waymarked fenced track beside a house called Underwood. The fencing on the right ends just before a gap; here turn right along a hedged track. Follow the track just within woodland, then follow the waymarkers carefully, steeply uphill across a field and through a small plantation to a gap. Turn left along the top of the escarpment to a gate in the corner on to the road.
Turn right, then, where the road swings sharp left by a junction, keep straight on through a gate. Initially head towards an open-sided barn, but then bear left across a depression and continue to another stile. Cross the next field to a stile and walk down a track between fields. Bear slightly left, then walk along the right-hand field-edge to enter a long, narrow field, bounded by woodland.
Keep to the right-hand edge and go by a redundant stile on the right just before the corner. Continue beside woodland, soon joining a drive which becomes a metalled lane. Turn right at the T-junction and go forward (not forking right) to retrace your steps back to the car park.
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