{"id":"6984795b533dbb4b731189f4","title":"Walk 221 Wayfarer S Walk And Hannington","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2016/volume-16-apr-to-jun-2016/walk-221-wayfarer-s-walk-and-hannington","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 221 - Wayfarer's Walk and Hannington\n\nTen of us met up on Sunday 8th May at the White Hill car park on the Wayfarer's Walk. This long-distance footpath goes from Combe Gibbet at Walbury Hill to Emsworth on the south coast - a distance of about 70 miles. We were going to walk just four miles of it as part of our circular walk.\n\nSetting off from the car park we immediately joined the Wayfarer's Walk, heading south-east. Walking through a bright yellow field of oilseed rape, we approached Walkeridge Farm and its little caravan site. Passing the farm and descending through woodland we entered the hamlet of North Oakley. The Wayfarer's Walk then took us out again, heading south-east through open fields.\n\n![Walking through oilseed rape on the Wayfarer's Walk.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume16/images/wayfarers_walk_white_hill.jpg)\n\nA gentle uphill stretch took us to Freemantle Farm and then through more fields and woodlands. We said goodbye to the Wayfarer's Walk as it crossed White Lane, which we began following eastward. Reaching a crossroads, we turned north onto Hannington Road. After half a mile we left the road and took a footpath into Warren Bottom Copse.\n\nWalking through this lovely piece of woodland, we were amazed by the sea of bluebells surrounding us. Photographs somehow don't do justice to bluebells, but it does at least give you some idea of what we saw. As the path left the woods, we stopped to eat our picnic lunch in dappled shade.\n\n![Entering the woodland of Warren Bottom Copse.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume16/images/warren_bottom_copse.jpg)\n\nAnother mile through gently undulating fields led us to the picturesque village of Hannington, where we stopped for a drink at The Vine pub. This was most welcome as it was a particularly warm day. (The pub also sold ice-creams!) After a pleasant rest in their garden, we crossed the village green, passed the church and joined a footpath leading northward out of the village.\n\nWe took a hilly route through farmland and then turned westward into the woodland at the top of Cottington's Hill. This passed by the transmitter mast and descended through Stubbington Down before joining the Wayfarer's Walk very briefly to return to the car park. See our route on Bing Maps.\n\n![A sea of bluebells in Warren Bottom Copse.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume16/images/sea_of_bluebells.jpg)\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 16\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"

🥾 Walk 221 - Wayfarer's Walk and Hannington

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Ten of us met up on Sunday 8th May at the White Hill car park on the Wayfarer's Walk. This long-distance footpath goes from Combe Gibbet at Walbury Hill to Emsworth on the south coast - a distance of about 70 miles. We were going to walk just four miles of it as part of our circular walk.

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Setting off from the car park we immediately joined the Wayfarer's Walk, heading south-east. Walking through a bright yellow field of oilseed rape, we approached Walkeridge Farm and its little caravan site. Passing the farm and descending through woodland we entered the hamlet of North Oakley. The Wayfarer's Walk then took us out again, heading south-east through open fields.

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A gentle uphill stretch took us to Freemantle Farm and then through more fields and woodlands. We said goodbye to the Wayfarer's Walk as it crossed White Lane, which we began following eastward. Reaching a crossroads, we turned north onto Hannington Road. After half a mile we left the road and took a footpath into Warren Bottom Copse.

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Walking through this lovely piece of woodland, we were amazed by the sea of bluebells surrounding us. Photographs somehow don't do justice to bluebells, but it does at least give you some idea of what we saw. As the path left the woods, we stopped to eat our picnic lunch in dappled shade.

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Another mile through gently undulating fields led us to the picturesque village of Hannington, where we stopped for a drink at The Vine pub. This was most welcome as it was a particularly warm day. (The pub also sold ice-creams!) After a pleasant rest in their garden, we crossed the village green, passed the church and joined a footpath leading northward out of the village.

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We took a hilly route through farmland and then turned westward into the woodland at the top of Cottington's Hill. This passed by the transmitter mast and descended through Stubbington Down before joining the Wayfarer's Walk very briefly to return to the car park. See our route on Bing Maps.

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