Kingfisher Trail Chalk Grassland Is Home to a Wide Variety of Plants and in December 1991, Twyford Down Became the Site of Animals

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Walk Highlights Kingfisher trail Chalk grassland is home to a wide variety of plants and In December 1991, Twyford Down became the site of animals. Grazing animals help to maintain the balance of the UK’s first road protest camp when environmentalists Twyford different plants found here, which provide valuable food gathered to try and hinder work on the construction of for rare butterflies including the Adonis blue, silver- the final link in the M3. Despite years of protests, the spotted skipper and Duke of Burgundy. It is also a home highly controversial road building project was completed for many threatened birds, including skylarks. in 1994. Adonis blue butterfly © Mark Heighes Distance: 6 miles/ 10km St. Catherine’s Hill is a wildlife-rich chalk grassland Walking time: nature reserve with an abundance of wildflowers and 3 hours

butterflies. The Hill is also an Iron Age hill fort and boasts Down monument Twyford Terrain: hilly spectacular views over Winchester and the Itchen Valley. The reserve is owned by Winchester College and The Itchen Navigation Heritage Trail Project is a Heritage managed by the Wildlife Trust. In the summer, look Lottery Fund project managed by the Wildlife Trust, preserving out for musk orchids and frog orchids on the south an internationally important chalk river system for future facing slope. generations. Find out more about the Itchen Navigation at: www.itchennavigation.org.uk

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Beechcroft, Vicarage Lane Curdridge, Hampshire SO32 2DP www.hwt.org.uk View from St Catherines Hill © Chris Newbury View Kingﬁsher Trail

WINCHESTER Footpaths

Minor roads Kingfisher Trail Motorway Cricket Ground P Railway St.Cross Park 9 Landmarks St. Catherine’s Hill Twyford Down Take a walk across the rolling hills of the Public House or Café Cricket Monument South Downs National Park and along the Ground 10 P Car Park stunning Itchen river valley. Hockley Farm St. Cross St. Catherine’s Twyford Farm St. Cross Lock M3 Bridge Down 1 from Compton Lock, go through the right hand gate into the water meadows and follow the path Hockley heading southeast. Golf Course P 2 go through the gate into the next field and keep left Twyford along the field edge. Cross the bridge over the river. Path End Lock 3 go up Berry Lane past Twyford Parish Church. Cross Twyford Road (B3335) and continue onto Path Bourne Lane. B3335 Itchen Navigation Morestead 4 at Bourne Field take the footpath straight ahead. Tumbling Farm Bay New Barn Farm

5 at the end of the path, turn left and follow the road Hockley Farm track Path Farm to the waterworks. Hazeley Down 6 turn right onto the track before the waterworks Hockley Hazeley Down (under a vehicle barrier). House House Compton Lock Hockley 7 turn left onto Mare Lane. Lodge 1 River Itchen 8 8 at the T-junction cross the road and join the footpath. Berry Lane 4 Mare Lane follow the path to the motorway. 2 3 Twyford Parish Twyford Bourne Lane 5 9 Cross the bridge over the motorway and take the Church School Orchard Close path around the left hand side of St. Catherine’s Hill. Shawford SHAWFORD TWYFORD Hazeley Rd 6 Hazeley Railway Station Bourne Twyford Farm Lodge 10 When you reach the Itchen Navigation, turn left and P Waterworks follow the towpath south to the motorway. Cross

the road at the level crossings and follow the Littlebourne 7 pavement along the Twyford Road a short distance until the footpath turns right off the road. Follow the itchen Navigation south.

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