Wayfarers Walk

Infobox Hiking trail
Name=Wayfarers Walk
Photo=Wayfarers walk marker.jpg
Caption=Wayfarers Walk waymarker
Location=England
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Length=Convert|70|mi|0
Start/End Points=Walbury Hill in West Berkshire
Emsworth in Hampshire
Use=Hiking
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Season=All year
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The Wayfarers Walk is a long distance footpath in England from Walbury Hill, Berkshire to Emsworth, Hampshire.

The footpath can be walked in either direction. The north-west end is at the car park on top of Walbury Hill to near Inkpen Beacon and the south-east end is Emsworth town square.

The footpath approximates an ancient route that might have been used by drovers taking cattle for export. It passes through the towns of New Alresford, Droxford, Hambledon, Havant and Emsworth and the villages of North Oakley, Deane, Dummer, Brown Candover, Abbotstone, Cheriton, Hinton Ampner, Kilmeston, Soberton, and Denmead. The footpath also passes close to Watership Down, Hampshire.

The footpath is waymarked by metal and plastic disks found attached to wooden and metal posts, trees and street furniture. It has also spawned several circular routes that use sections of the main footpath. These are also waymarked.

This route is shown as a series of green diamonds on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps and as a series of red diamonds on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 maps.

Walbury Hill is also the start of the Test Way.

Map

These maps show the footpath in relation to nearby major roads. Maps are not on the same scale.

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External links

* [http://www3.hants.gov.uk/longdistance/wayfarers-walk.htm HCC infomation on the Wayfarer's Walk]

ee also

*Long-distance footpaths in the UK
* North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty