Duncton Mill Key: Route Instructions Walks near and Distance: 5miles/8km Public house From bus stop Duncton Mill Incline head right down the track to Time: 2–2.5 hours Burton Park. Nature reserve Discover another way to visit the At the edge of the wood National Park. Go to www.traveline.co.uk or Bus: 99/99A Walk bear left, don’t stay on the call 0871 200 22 33 to find public transport Footpath Compass Bus track. information. For train timetables, visit Bridleway Walks near Midhurst Access: Passing by Burton Chapel www.nationalrail.co.uk or call 08457 484950. carry on with Burton house Some hills on your right. South Downs National Park and Duncton Mill Take the next footpath The South Downs National Park is Britain’s right and follow the path past newest National Park, rich in landscape, culture A285 Chingford Pond to Crouch and wildlife. Discover ancient woodland and enjoy Farm. spectacular views as you explore the open downs

Burton Turn left onto the road, and heathlands. Within these landscapes lie bustling Chapel then take the bridleway on market towns and peaceful rural villages, historic the right past The Warren. houses and the remains of ancient settlements. Crouch Duncton Farm Turn right onto the road Start/Finish for approximately 500m. Contact us The Take the next footpath on South Downs National Park Authority WaW rren the left which goes around Tel: 0300 303 1053 Duncton behind the cottages. Mill Web: www.southdowns.gov.uk Where the path forks, bear right across more fields Twitter: @SDNPA Facebook: SDNPA to Sutton church. Please follow the Countryside Code: A285 Turn left onto the lane Leave gates as you find them and keep dogs into Sutton. under close control or on a lead. Pick up the footpath from Where in the South Downs National Park: the pub car park on your right – the path goes past private houses and a small orchard. Bear right on the footpath Sutton Midhurst up the hill. Duncton The White At Duncton Mill turn right Horse along the track through the buildings and follow the path Details correct at time of going to print. Please be aware that routes are shared with 1mile back to Duncton village and other users (vehicles, pedestrians, dogs, horses etc) and users of the SDNPA Walk and 1km © Photo Hilary Perkins the bus stop. Ride Leaflet Series do so at their own risk. We do not accept any responsibility for loss, damage or injury, however caused, arising directly or indirectly from use of this leaflet. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013. Leave your car at home, take the bus Midhurst, Route Instructions At the cemetery turn right down to the road, and From the main Midhurst bus stop turn left up then turn left crossing the road at the corner. Distance: 10miles/16km North Street, then at the top of the hill turn right Follow the path down to Cowdray ruins, then onto June Lane. take the footpath to the right which returns to Time: 4.5–5.5 hours At the Half Moon pub bear right taking the the bus stop beside Midhurst tourist information centre. Bus: 60/70/92/93 footpath towards Woolbeding. Following the field edge, go through two kissing Stagecoach, Emsworth gates and, at the third, bear left and follow the Midhurst, Woolbeding and & District track to the road. Turn right here and go over Easebourne walk Access: Woolbeding Bridge. The Angel Hotel on North Street, Midhurst, dates Eastshaw back to the fifteenth century. During the 1880’s, Some stiles and hills Farm Continue along the road, then take the National Trust footpath on the left towards the river. Follow author H G Wells resided in the house beside Key: the Rother River until you join a footpath, turn left. the Angel Hotel and some of his early novels are based on the Midhurst area. Public house Cross over the stile and bridges, then at the stile opposite the Mill turn right up the hill to the road. Incline A286 Woolbeding Bridge dates back to the early medieval period. Walk Turn right onto the road, then take the next footpath on the left. Follow the field edge round Footpath Following the river at Woolbeding to and at the next stile turn right. Bridleway Mill you may see the flowers of pink purslane and Continue to the road, cross it and follow the river crowfoot during spring. footpath. At the next junction turn right and follow Stedman Cowdray Ruin was burnt out in 1793 but even Mill N the fence. a t R i o as a ruin it is an impressive monument to Tudor o n t h a At the next junction turn right, past Eastshaw e l

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junction, then turn right down the lane, taking the some impressive wall paintings. Burton Park itself next footpath on the left. has several gnarled, ancient sweet chestnut trees A272 believed to be around 400 years old. Burton and Woolbedingg Half Moon Inn Start/Finish Follow the footpath crossing the road, then Bridge JuJune Lane continue down the next lane to the A286. Turn right Chingford ponds local nature reserve is a good place to see birds, dragonflies and damselflies. Cowdray ruins and walk along the road.

A272 Take the next path on the left which doubles The Warren is an area of ancient woodland and a Midhurst back parallel to the road. Wildlife Trust reserve. Turn right at the footpath and follow the field Mills at Duncton are recorded in the Domesday edge. Book (1086) and there have been orchards and Turn right at the next footpath junction and fisheries here since medieval times. The present 1mile continue to the next waymarker. house dates from 1767 and the watermill from 1km A286 Turn left through the hedge and left again by the 1824. allotments.