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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 0 2 4 6 8 10 Miles Miles Miles Refreshments offers a chance for refreshments before setting Fordingbridge Ellisfield Candovers Farley Mount off or on your return. 300m 300m Off Road Cycle Trails STREN300muOuS Places of interest 200m 200m 200m House and Museum 01725 512468 or 01725 512233. A large Elizabethan house set in beautiful parkland 100m 100m 100m with a Saxon church nearby. Former kitchen gardens have a major countryside museum, with village workshops and a reconstructed cottage. 0 2 4 6 8 10 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Miles Roman Villa 01725Miles 518541 Miles Remains of a Roman villa with museum display Martin Down National Nature Reserve Lepe Sparsholt Chalk grassland rich in wild flowers, birdlife and butterflies. 300m 300m 300m Railways 200m 200m 200m Railway Enquiries 08457 484950 Discover www.nationalrail.co.uk ’s Countryside by Bike 100m 100m 100m Maps If you wish to plan your own route in this area, you may find 0 2 4 6 8 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Miles the following Ordnance SurveyMiles maps useful: Miles Outdoor Leisure 22

Whitchurch ClockwiseFordingbridge route cross section Meon Valley 300m 300m 300m

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100m 100m Start: Fordingbridge pay and display car park.100m (Grid ref. 147143). Grade: Strenuous 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 0 2 4 6 8 10 Miles Miles Not to scale Description: A toughMiles route north of the which circles the village of Rockbourne with its famous Roman villa. One for the more Liphook Test Way experienced cyclist. Ordnance Survey maps 300m 300m are highly recommended for this route.

200m 200m About the passport 100m The Culture-all Passport gives up to 2 adults and 2 children100m 12 months’ unlimited, access & parking to a world of fun, at one price. To find out more go to www.hants.gov.uk/passport Acanthus | www.acanthus-colour.co.uk Design by 0 2 4 6 8 10 0 2 4 Miles Miles

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1 From the car park, take ‘The Bartons’ road, then Turn Left 18 Where road bears left, Continue Straight Ahead onto up Road. bridleway. Cross road, follow bridleway to Manor Farm. 2 Turn Right onto Tinkers Cross Fryern Court Road. After 21 Turn Right into Steels Lane, signposted ‘school’ then approximately ¼ mile take left fork towards Outwick and Turn Right at school into Mill End. Pass track on left and Breamore. continue to bridleway. 5 After zig zag in road, Turn Left up track to Breamore 22 Bear Left on bridleway to road. Turn Right onto B3078. House and into woods. 23 At Crossroads, Turn Left following signs to Rockbourne. 6 After woods, Turn Left at t-junction of tracks following bridleway signs. 24 Turn Right onto Bridleway and follow to Sandle Manor buildings on your right. Turn left and continue along wide 7 After bridleway bears sharply right, Turn Left at T-junction track to road. of tracks onto North Drove. Continue Bearing Right before field, down narrow trail between hedges. 25 Turn Right at road, then Right Again into Whitsbury Road. 8 At T-junction of tracks, Turn Left downhill. At fork, Bear Left. KEY Farm Gate 54 Greenacres ) 9 At next junction of tracks, Turn Right onto Byway. At A3 Farm PH Public House Telephone Blandford corner of wood Turn Left. Continue ignoring turns. Forum 10 P Car Park Power lines Up hill 11 Continue Straight on to track signposted Toyd Down. Church Wick Down Down hill 14 Cycle through the village, past hall and Little Toyd Gallops telephone box. Turn Left into Sillens Lane. Farm 9 8 15 At end of road go Left in front of Martin 11 7 Down National Nature Reserve 12 car park. Go up middle Martin track towards hill. Martin Down 6 National Nature ne Breamore La ) Toyd 16 Continue up to the Sillen 13 upper House Reserve 14 Down Salisbury P 15 Street left of the Martin Down Whitsbury PH 5 Tidpit Power lines National Nature ) The Rookery Blagdon Breamore 16 Rockbourne ) Reserve sign towards Hill 17 PH the ridgeway. 4

8 Site of 3 17 On ridgeway, Bear 3 Roman Villa Power lines A Right downhill, keeping n Avo Fryern 3 R. Right of hedgerow. Court 18 21

Turn Left through gate. ) 2 Farm 24 South 25 19 20 22 End 23 Sandle Additions to ‘standard’ key: Manor P Short-cut 1 Fordingbridge

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