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Farley Hill & Eversley Circular Walk 3.5 Miles, May 2020

This is a circular walk of about 3.5 miles starting and ending in Farley Hill.

Sadly there is no pub on this walk.

Car Park

This walk starts and finished outside Farley Hill Primary School. At weekends you may park there anytime - on weekdays there is plenty of kerb-side parking near the school (avoiding the school entrances of course).

The Route

1. Facing away from the school entrance turn right down Church Road towards Jouldings Lane.

2. As Church Road turns left to head down the hill you'll notice a narrow entrance to the public footpath between a bungalow and a tall hedge. Take this.

3. After following the garden of the house the path turns right and crosses a private garden. This is the official route of the path and was previously marked with a fence-line which the owner has removed - you are fully entitled to walk over this garden/lawn and it only takes 10 seconds to walk over.

4. Follow down the path - over the stile - and into and through the field.


5. Follow the farm track to a stile in the corner of the field.

6. The next field is large with electricity pylons in the middle. Depending on crop or usage might affect the path you take. The official path leads directly from the stile directly over to the left side of the electricity pylon in front of you.

You might sometimes needs to follow the field boundary on the right until nearer the pylon as the farmer sometimes leaves a path between specific crops for public access.

7.  After the pylon you should spot the stile next to the wood opposite.

8. Take the stile - follow the path through the wood, over a couple of field stiles until you emerge on New Mill Road - next to Lea Cottage.

9. Turn left to New Mill Road (New Mill Road appears to be the name of both these roads). At the T juntion turn right and cross the ford.


10. Once across the ford continue straight up the bridle way beside the house, do not continue up New Mill Road.

11. You are now entering the back of Bramshill Woods - after about 50 metres up this path turn right - its a clearly identifiable bridleway just like you've been on. Elextricity pylons should be overhead and guide you.

12. Follow this to the corner by the water treatment plant (watch out it can get very boggy here all year round but there's always a path through)

13. Basically your path continues along this bridle way all along the bottom edge of the Bramshill Wood - follow it - until it emerges onto Well House Lane.


14. Take Well House Lane and turn left along it, following it just to the end of the first house's garden - your path turns right over a style and uses the rear drive of the house to a narrow path entrance at the bottom left.


15. Follow this path winding between fencing and farm buildings, until it cross the Long River.

16. After the bridge continue about another 10 metres to the footpath stile on your left, cross this stile and head through the field.


17. Follow this path over at least 4 more stiles and a kissing gate - past the fishing lake (be quite here or you'll get "looks") until you emerge on Jouldings Lane.

18. Turn right and follow Jouldings Lane all the way to the top - back to Church Road.

19. Turn left back to the School.


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