©Crown copyright 2016 Ordnance Survey. Media 043/16 Route: Leave the car park Continue in the same metal gate (8). Go through a (1) with Castle direction along the lane to second metal gate and bear 9 Get Walking . . . on your right and walk along the farmhouse at Garstons right as indicated on the the road. Where it bends left (5). guide post on N128 towards Join us for a free, gentle stroll on (2), take bridleway N108 Walk ahead, keeping the Carisbrooke. Sunday, May 1, 10.30am towards Gatcombe, which buildings on your right, to a At a junction of paths go 1 runs south from here. The meeting of paths. Turn right straight ahead on bridleway 2 ...... path becomes a sunken onto bridleway G7 to N123 towards Carisbrooke 10 bridleway with high banks . Follow this — which is about a mile 11 Carisbrooke and on each side. good track round to the left away. Where hedges allow, 8 Emerging at the top, with a hedge and ditch on can be continue in the same your right. Bowcombe can seen on your right. Towards 6 the Tennyson Trail direction and leave N108 be seen in the valley ahead. its end the bridleway 5.6 miles onto N107 at a fork (3) At Bowcombe Farm, walk descends to Nodgham Lane 7 ...... towards Garstons. Then straight ahead curving round (9). follow the field edge path first the cottages to reach the Turn right along Nodgham 3 Start: Car Park (free) opposite Carisbrooke Priory on with a wire fence and then a access lane. Walk up Lane and at the main road the Whitcombe Road. hedge on your left. The Bowcombe Farm Lane N144 cross to descend Clatterford Description: A circular walk through open television mast on Chillerton to the main Newport — Shute. Cross the Lukely countryside and along the Tennyson Trail. Down is straight ahead. road. Turn right and Brook at the bottom and Where the bridleway dips cross over to the footpath walk up the road on the Access information: Hilly stretches at the downs down and goes straight N132 Cow Lane (6). other side. Just past a road 5 4 and by Carisbrooke Castle. ahead, turn right on a path Walk up the track between going off to the left take the Refreshments: In Carisbrooke or at the castle. with a fence on the left. You hedges. At the top of the path climbing on your left Toilets: Carisbrooke village centre. are now walking towards the track go through the gate (7) (10), N88, to Carisbrooke of the moat look for a path castle. Go to the top of the Rowridge TV mast. This path and turn sharp right on Castle. descending on your right. field and then turn left (11) follows the fence round to footpath N133. The path At the top of the path walk Go down this steep slope up the lane and follow the Rambles the left and becomes a track climbs steeply and at the top forward to a small gate in the and then walk between verge beside the road to the between hedges. you join the Tennyson Trail fence on your right to walk hedges, away from the car park. around the Island Where this path reaches a after 300 metres. round the castle moat. As in association with the IW Ramblers T-junction (4), turn right. Turn right through the you go round the first corner Visit: www.iowramblers.com