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Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire 7.5km

A gentle walk around the Loddon valley floor.

7.5km (c 2.25 hrs)

Starting pub: Jekyll & Hyde, Stratfield Turgis


Car Parking

The start of this walk is next to the Jekyll & Hyde pub, but please don't park in the pub carpark.
Heading towards Basingstoke on the A33 there is a small public car park for the playground park just immediately after the pub's carpark entrance. This little carpark has enough room for two or three cars but we've never seen anyone else there.

The Route

  


1. Leave the recreation ground and turn left. Follow the footway for around 30m and you will see a footpath marker partially hidden in the hedge opposite. There is also a gap in the hedge almost directly opposite the car park and both lead into the field.

2. Go through the small opening and follow the footpath up the edge of the field, keeping the hedge on the right.


3. At the end of the field turn right onto a wider farm track heading slightly down hill to farm buildings. This track follows the ridge down and you can see the old church down by the river.

(I've done this walk a few times and sometimes there is a public path visible in the field almost opposite where you arrive on thes field, heading directly to the church opposite in the woods - but sometimes this isn't visible so I do point 4).

4. Follow the footpaths down and to the front of the farm buildings as it bends to the left and opens up in front of an abandoned church. Its worth having a look around although the interior of the church appears to have been used for animals!


5. Cross Fishery Brook at the new bridge by the ford. Listen to the ripples! Wellies might make it through the ford in summer!


6. Cross the field beside the house and then across the river Loddon by the footbridge.

7. Climb the stile then go diagonally left-ish (10 O'clock) across the field to a large stile in the hedge. Climb this and then enter the field on the right.

8. Follow field boundary keeping the hedge on the left (towards the end of the field switch to the field on the other side and keep the hedge on your right) until eventually emerging into the lanes in Stratfield Saye.

9. Turn left. Move along the lanes (there's another left at a fork in the road about 1 mile) until  you reach Lillymill Farm. Enter the track through the farm-style bar gate and follow it until you cross the Loddon river again.




10. Turn left after recrossing hte Loddon - you'll walk through 3-4 fields with electricity pylons overhead.

11. The fields lead to a footpath down the side of someone's garden - emerging onto a lane.

12. Turn right following Potter's Lane and go down it about 1 mile. There's a path on the left after a few farm buildings and cottage up a field.

13. Head up the path, crossing into a different field at the top - in the next field follow the field boundary keeping the hedge on your right.

14. You'll follow the hedge as it takes 90 degree corners round the field, but you'll see the road and will cross it before turning left to the petrol station and the park with your car park at the far end.


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