Walking with the Worsleys

BLUE ROUTE BLUE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #1

FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS WHO DON’T MIND A BIT OF A CHALLENGE

START/FINISH: CAR PARK, GODSHILL PO38 3JD TIME: 3-4 Hours DISTANCE: 6 miles

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85 Upper Hyde SHEPHERDS TRAIL SIBDEN HILL & H E R IT A G E C O A S T Worsley Monument BATTS COPSE

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Roud D O W N 209 235 154 S T E N B U R Y Luccombe BRIGHSTONE S H A N K L I N P D O W N Wroxall BAY Green D O W N P P 145 Ather eld Green 210 P LUCCOMBE BAY

Hoy’s 7 2 3 3 B Luccombe Down 93B B L E A K 199 Monument Southford 233 Barrow ATHERFIELD POINT D O W N 240 NANSEN S T B O N I FA C E HILL W E E K D O W N S T C AT H E R I N E ’ S D O W N 47 P D O W N P Whitwell St. Catherine’s Kingates Chale Oratory P M O N K S B AY C H A L E B AY ST LAWRENCE 237 UNDERCLIFF P PELHAM WOODS VENTNOR BAY St Lawrence P A 3 0 5 5

P R O C K E N E N D BINNEL ENGLISH BAY REETH BAY F ST CATHERINE’S POINT CHANNEL HERITAGE COAST 50 E 48 DIRECTIONS: A START: Start your journey from Godshill, a picturesque village, E When you meet a cross roads of Bridleways turn left onto Bridleway which is chock full of treats. Take care walking through Godshill, the 50 and then join Byway 48 which will bring you onto Rew Lane. Turn Left roads are narrow and the pavement disappears at points along the busy and join Foot Path 47 at Span Lodge. main road. F Join Foot Path 45 just past . Before its B The first stop is All Saints’ Church famous for a 15th Century fresco partial destruction by a wartime explosion the house was considered a painting of Christ on the cross. Walk north along the High Street until masterpiece of English Baroque architecture. It is still an astonishingly you meet Church Hollow. Cross the road and take Foot Path 62, to the beautiful building set in ‘Capability’ Brown’s only landscape. Church. This gorgeous house played centre stage in one of the most salacious C Then take Church Hill south until you reach Bridleway 56 to Sainham scandals of the Georgian Period. Farm. The bridleway will join Foot Path 58. G Foot Path 45 will join Bridleway 44 at the Freemantle Gate. Follow D Follow Foot Path 58 until you meet a cross roads then take a right Bridleway 44 all the way back to Godshill. turn onto Foot Path 49. When you meet a fork in the path take the left H You will come out on the Shanklin Road, turn left and from here it is option onto Bridleway 51, which will take you passed a Radio Station. only a short walk back to the Start. FINISH

Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions.