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ON PAGE 40 the traffic once flowed. and nature flourishes where the roar of cars and lorries, lowland heath has replaced has been healed, valuable Now the scar of old road officially ‘returned to nature’. the old A3 has now been bottleneck in Hindhead village, to bypass a notorious traffic of a new tunnel in 2011 1.8km been vital. With the opening London to Portsmouth has a naval port, a good road from 1 along drive. When road veers L then bear L through barrier and FEATURE metres Head to car park entrance Start km 20 0 40 0 60 0 0 0

Portsmouth has been Portsmouth has been For as long MIKE COPE CHOSEN BY… 05 u Distance: 9½ miles/15.3 km u km 9½ miles/15.3 Distance: 2

DEVIL’S SURREY 6 R. Pass two houses, then bear L at T-junction, with steep hillside that follows powerlines. Bear R 2 crossroads towards pylon. When track rises, bear L at (keeping pinewoods on L). junction, near pond, veer R track narrows. At complex After passing sandy trench, the veers round to L in a slow arc. emerges from woodland, and path (along Kettlebury Hill) woodland. Eventually ridgetop In due course track enters ridge. Bear R along track. keep climbing until you reach bear L through 90 degrees and you reach a complex junction, ahead up sandy track. When (towards MOD huts), keep GR ADIENT PROFILE R at junction along track 1¾ mile/3 km 8 reclaimed A3 road. Time: 5 hours u 5 hours Time: The curves of the

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MIKE COPE MIKE PHOTO: on lower track. Cross road and At next junction, keep ahead hollow lane with steep banks. byway. Keep going along L-hand bend, go R along public Turn L along road, and at next to gain road (at Pitch Place). 14 Public Hotel, both Hindhead & The Devil’s Punchbowl Refreshments NT Café Nearest town Hindhead PLANNING Stiles None Some road walking around rim of punchbowl. pine woodland and on lowland heath, through Is it for me? Varied walk grid ref SU 891411 Common car park, Start/parking Hankley ROUTE 133, Landranger 186 Maps OS Explorer 145 & to Thursley and Hindhead start, and limited service Public NT Café, Hindhead PLAN YOUR WALK YOUR PLAN toilets transport None to 16 A

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ON PAGE 10 notably Poohsticks Bridge. you to some of the places, Way and Forest Way – takes Trail, Wealdway, Vanguard the High Weald Landscape several waymarked routes – which follows stretches of around the Forest. This walk, be linked to real places in and and locations in the stories can when the books were written, largely the same now as it was his illustrator EH Shepard – is inspiration for AA Milne – and landscape that provided the setting for the stories. The edge of Ashdown Forest, the the village of Hartfield on books in the 1920s, lived near FEATURE

metres the memorial plaque. The viewpoint at km 20 0 40 0 60 0 0 0 the Winnie-the-Pooh AA Milne, who wrote FIONA BARLTROP CHOSEN BY… 06 u Distance: 9 miles/14.5km u 9 miles/14.5km Distance: 2

ASHDOWN FOREST EAST SUSSEX 6 shortly and as it curves L edge of field, rejoining drive L to continue along WW on to Gate. Fisher’s Cross stile on to a pair of gates at entrance 2 1 route of the Wealdway (WW). private road where you join the waymarks until you reach a High Weald Landscape Trail L along edge of field. Follow Climb over stile on R and turn on L, for a very short distance. continue along drive, graveyard worth a look inside), and medieval church itself is well and adjoining cottage (the the attractive old lychgate along Church Street passing GR ADIENT PROFILE From the Anchor Inn, walk Start Turn R and walk along road 1 mile/1.75km

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FIONA BARLTROP FIONA PHOTO: 14 ROUTE Landranger 188 Maps OS Explorer 135; www.metrobus.co.uk Crawley via Hartfield, from Tunbridge Wells to transportPublic Bus 291 toiletsPublic None village (01892 770008) Inn, justGallipot outside (01892 770456), Hartfield. at Pooh Corner Shop Piglet’s Tearoom & garden (01892 770424) and Refreshments Anchor Inn Crowborough Nearest town PLANNING Stiles 10 Forest can be confusing waymarks in Ashdown open heath). Lack of terrain (fields, woodland, walking over undulating Is it for me? Fairly gentle grid ref TQ478357 Street. Hartfield, TN7 4AD, High Street or Church roadside parking along Start/parking Considerate PLAN YOUR WALK YOUR PLAN 16

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5 4 IN ASSOCIATION WITH OS MAPS OS lfto.com/cwroutes START GET THIS WALK

ON YOUR PHONE: then immediately R up tarred R up tarred then immediately signs). warning (with drive start. back to drive Follow 1 2 3

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5 L and cross road to bridleway. bridleway. to road L and cross track blue waymarked Follow junction next across straight woodland. birch and into as another direction Maintain field in R. Keep joins from track L and look out for your to view to round track tin shack. Follow you going until L and keep and Go L here a road. reach Buy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop

SURREY DEVIL’S Descend to a junction and a junction to Descend 5¾ miles/9.1 km 5¾ miles/9.1 3½ miles/5.7 km 3½ miles/5.7 bear R and follow top, At OS Explorer map 145 & 133 u on L and turn L at road. road. on L and turn at look for blue sign; bear half L look for Cross Way. join Greensand to track stony grid and take cattle which descends scrub, through ahead at Keep a junction. to Thursley towards fingerpost when direction and maintain At a road. meets track sunken bend, turn L along R-hand first and edge of Hedge Farm, farm around path fenced follow fenced buildings. Eventually At with lane. merges path go R up Cottage, Smallbrook to gate bank and through fields to across path follow Exit churchyard churchyard. continue along bridleway, along bridleway, continue and rises which narrows and gate Go through gradually. woodland. L into then fork the follow emerge, you When pylon, third and, at powerlines go L up bank of conifers. 3 4 track past water trough to rim to trough water past track go a while, After of Punchbowl. grid/ (near cattle gate through L then branch board), info When along rim of Punchbowl. go R picnic area, reach you car park. L along through (not tarmac walkway grassy round swings R). As track path L along rim of Punchbowl. to bend around walkway Follow (and narrows and when track R up bank and fork splits), walkway. along tarred continue u 05

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2 IN ASSOCIATION WITH OS MAPS OS lfto.com/cwroutes GET THIS WALK ON YOUR PHONE: START bridleway opposite heading opposite bridleway the now old railway, north to R, and after Turn Way. Forest follow c.250m R again to Landscape Trail High Weald Hartfield. back to 1 6

3 4 7⅞ miles/12.5km 100m, then R L for Turn Cross road and follow and follow road Cross 6½ miles/10.3km 5 6 bridleway (official diversion diversion (official bridleway on older not shown – route a ahead passing Keep maps). the to car park, then downhill and Pooh bridge where famous Poohsticks. his friends played ahead bridge and keep Cross then R along junction, next at Hartfield. signed for footpath B2110. bear L to fork next At across road and continue along and continue road across Buy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop

EAST SUSSEX EAST FOREST ASHDOWN 5⅓ miles/8.5km Head north along wide 4¾ miles/7.6km 4¾ miles/7.6km Turn R to follow a short follow R to Turn OS Explorer map 135 u track to clump of pine trees clump of pine trees to track Galleons Lap in the Lap, (Gills the ‘enchanted stories, Pooh of the top on the very place on R. and trig point Forest’) in fenced beyond, Not far on L, is a memorial enclosure Milne and EH AA plaque to A fine viewpoint. Shepard. north, steadily Continue reach you until descending, a before Just some woodland. road R to curves track dwelling, Pooh signed for post (wooden road). approach Bridge as you u keep ahead, then bear R keep WW follow to continuing in Five Now waymarks. the ‘One Wood, Acre Hundred of the Wood’ Acre Hundred leads to drive stories, Pooh Lodge. Kovacs to gate entrance on L, as track continues WW and heads south through you In due course woods. the open with ever into emerge lack of The views. increasing it a bit can make waymarks maintain but if you confusing, you then SSW) (S direction crossing a broad should reach the B2026 before just track hear if not see). you’ll (which 3 4 stretch of the Vanguard Way Way of the Vanguard stretch the to running parallel (VGW), with its junction up to B2026, to road Cross another road. Gills Lap car park, where plaque. an information there’s 06

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