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This broad, straight track is part of a Follow a cinder track for 350 yards (315m) and then turn left off the by some white fencing, where Location map Roman road which once linked Section 1 you’ll follow an old tarmac road for a further 350 yards. Turn right just after the gas pumping station and follow a with the Roman town of Silchester. Even Ramblers route bridleway, which runs parallel to power lines, in a westerly direction, crossing a stream at one point. Stay on this The Look Out to : though the Romans constructed the road, path for 0.8 miles (1.3 km) until you reach the to Sandhurst road. 4.5 miles (7.2 km) local people who lived here after the Roman Introduction Occupation believed that only the Devil could Numbered text relates to numbered route The Ramblers Route have been responsible for such a feat of sections in the maps. engineering - hence its name. is 26 mile/ 41.8km Section 1 The Look Out Discovery Centre is open daily circular Continue straight along the Devil’s Highway, and provides many attractions for the family, drop down a slope to a gate and follow the that passes through with over 90 science and nature exhibits. The track beneath the route of the Sandhurst- attractive countryside Look Out is situated on the edge of Swinley Crowthorne bypass. About 175 yards (160m) on the outskirts of Forest which is the largest area of unbroken beyond the bypass, turn left onto a footpath woodland (mostly Scots Pine) in at and head south. Pass a pond on the left-hand Forest. 1,052 hectares. The provide a side, join a tarmac road (Eastern Lane) and The route follows , bridleways, number of walking and cycling routes continue along it, with (mountain bike hire is available) that suit a seen up on the hill on the right. This section of woodland tracks and stretches of road. It range of abilities the route is likely to have local diversions due passes through remarkably varied scenery, to the current development of new housing and open space. from coniferous forest and heathland in the From the front of The Look Out, follow the south to open farmland in the north. 1 signs around the left-hand side of the building Founded in 1863, Broadmoor is one of and through the gate. The route leads four special hospitals providing treatment It is recommended that you attempt the southwards, up Gravel Hill and past an old for psychiatric patients under secure route in stages, using the four sections triangulation pillar, part of a network of disused conditions. trig points once used by Ordnance Survey. described in this leaflet. The shortest of Follow the track to a crossroads and then When the road bends right, go straight on these is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) and the longest continue ahead for about 100 yards (91m) to 3 along a PROW Footpath, with Broadmoor Farm on the left. Keep alongside the fence, is 8 miles (12.9 km). the next junction. Turn right onto a forest track and continue straight ahead for just over half a and having passed through a small wood To help you find your way, distinctive mile (1km). south of the farm, turn right at the fence corner towards Wildmoor Heath. waymarkers (a black arrow on a white In the late 18th century was background) signpost the route in a used for military training manoeuvres at Wildmoor Heath is designated a Site of clockwise and anti-clockwise direction. a time when this country braced itself for Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its attack from Napoleonic France rare communities of plant and animals. It Please come prepared; in places it can be also falls within the Thames Basin Heath Special very wet and muddy underfoot. See under Pass a reservoir on Protection Area (along with Swinley Forest), the right to reach ‘Useful Information’ for suggestions about 2 which is an internationally important habitat for Upper Star Post, a rare ground nesting birds, the Nightjar (pictured suitable places to park, maps you may find ‘star’ junction, where left), Woodlark and Dartford Warbler. Please useful and where to find refreshments. six forest tracks meet help protect the wildlife; during the bird breeding at one point. Take the season (March to September) when we ask that second turning on the you stay on the paths and keep your dog close by. right, signposted the Devil’s Highway.

Section 4 Follow the road for just over a mile (2.8 km), walking along pavements. Pass Please follow the 17 Nature Reserve supports School (on your right), the a number of rare wetland plants and a rich restaurant on your left, go straight over Countryside Code: variety of insect and bird species and is the lights into Rd. Keep designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest for straight on leaving Carnation Hall on the its exceptional wildlife value. Why not take some • Consider the local community and other people right. At the junction with Locks Ride time to explore the site using the Woodpecker enjoying the outdoors turn right. Just after the sign for Chavey and Dragonfly wildlife trails? • Leave no trace of your visit and take your litter Down, at the point where the road veers home slightly left at a junction, turn left into Discover ... Leave the car park via the bottom left • Keep dogs under effective control Sandy Lane. Follow this lane through the gate and very soon turn right to follow the • Be safe - plan ahead and be prepared trees for half a mile (0.8 km) and carry path until it joins the Swinley Road at the • Follow advice and local signs straight on where the lane becomes a railway bridge. Cross this busy road with Ramblers Route tarmac road (Mill Ride).Turn left onto care, passing over the railway bridge then • Leave gates and property as you find them and Swinley Forest Fernbank Road, then right at North turn right into Swinley Park. The route now follow paths. Ascot Community Centre and Library. follows a 2 mile (3.2 km) long ‘permitted in path’ through the wooded park, which is Pass through the car park and on down From the church car park, turn left, follow owned by The Crown Estate Produced and published by the road, The Heathway. At the bottom, Church Lane for about 100 yards (90m) 16 go straight on along a tarmac path. Go and then turn right onto a footpath. This Swinley Park is also designated an SSSI, through the barrier into Burleigh Lane Additional information provided by path cuts across a field before crossing noted for its ancient broad-leaved trees and continue uphill to the junction with Nick Channer The ‘Cut’ river by a footbridge and and rare insect species found on dead or Kennell Green and Burleigh Road. Turn following the river for about 200 yards decaying wood. Parks & Countryside Service right into Burleigh Road. (180m). Turn left where the path emerges Environment, Culture and Communities on a tarmac road, at Wane Bridge, then Bracknell Forest Council right onto another footpath. Keep straight The lane to your left housed the Royal Follow the permitted path and Ramblers Time Square Route waymarks and don’t be tempted to ahead, following field boundary paths Kennels until the late 19th Century. 19 Market Street leave the woodland track at the first exit. for about half a mile (0.8km) and then Bracknell Stay in the woods until the waymarks clearly  After 200 yards (183m) turn right and follow Berkshire RG12 1JD turn right at the main road (B3022). Pass indicate the exit into New Forest Ride. Turn a byway, Blythewood Lane, south-west Brockhill Farm, cross a bridge and bear 18 left, over a roundabout, and follow New T: 01344 354441 for about half a mile (0.8km). At London immediately left to follow a riverside path Forest Ride for about 250 yards (228m) to Road turn right, cross over at the first www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/parksandcountryside to the next road. Turn right onto cross a footbridge over the dual carriageway traffic island, and after a few paces turn Section 4 Row Road (B3017). (A322). Passing the Coral Reef Waterworld left into Englemere Pond Nature Reserve. on your right, cross to return Copies of this document may be Church to The Look Out The parish of Winkfield covers over 9,000 Walk down to the water’s edge and follow to The Look Out (back to no. 1). Discovery Centre : 8 miles (12.9km) acres and is one of the largest in the the Ramblers Route waymarkers through obtained in large print, easy read, Braille, on audio tape or in other This section of the Ramblers Route starts in country. Before the Norman Conquest, the reserve for about half a mile (0.8 km), Warfield parish and continues for the most part most of the land was owned by the Abbey of eventually turning right into the car park. languages. To obtain a copy in an Abingdon. William the Conqueror annexed part in Winkfield. It briefly crosses into Windsor alternative format, please telephone of it after 1066 to enlarge his new estate at and (from Burleigh Road to its 01344 352000. Windsor. In the 18th century George III owned entry into Englemere Pond) and then ends most of the parish, and after his death the lands up in Bracknell. Key sites of interest include Your guide to the 26 mile (41.8km) walking were gradually divided amongst new owners. Englemere Pond and Swinley Park. trail around Bracknell Forest’s countryside © Bracknell Forest Council 2015 Useful information Section 3 Start/Finish: The Look Out Discovery Centre is located off Nine Mile Ride (B3430) and is 2 miles (3.2km) south of Bracknell town centre. Parking (postcode RG12 7QW) and a tourist information centre are among other facilities available. For further details, including information about car parking charges, visit: www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/ thelookoutdiscoverycentre or call them on tel: How used to look 01344 354400. Wildmoor Heath Pope’s Meadow Other suitable access points with parking:

• Wildmoor Heath, off Crowthorne Road, Turn right along Duke’s Ride, then first left into Forest . Cross the road and take the Sandhurst, GU47 8PD 6 Ravenswood Avenue. This section of the walk PROW footpath along the farm track almost passes briefly through District. opposite, which leads to Park. • Ambarrow Court, off A321 Lower Sandhurst Continue northwards along Ravenswood This track is also a driveway and if the metal Road, GU47 8JB Avenue and cross the East Berks Golf Course gate is closed the gate on the right - beware of flying golf balls and keep to the will be unlocked. • Pope’s Meadow, off B3408 St Marks Road, footpath. Skirt the fairways until you reach RG42 4AY a path on the left, running along the edge was owned by the of some woodland. Follow this and join a Downshire family from the 17th century. • Englemere Pond, off B3017 Swinley Road, tarmac road which serves ‘Ravenswood’, a The present house, built in 1864 by the SL5 8BA village providing lifelong care for children with Marquis of Downshire, is a listed building and is learning disabilities. now owned and managed as a conference centre • Swinley Park (same as for Englemere Pond). Follow the drive north (the same direction in and wedding venue by Bracknell Forest Council. which you have been heading) and turn right Useful maps: Ordnance Survey Landranger 7 Cross Easthampstead Park drive, to the north bridle circuit, Hill Farm Lane 175 Reading and Windsor, or Ordnance Survey to join a woodland path just before the road 9 of the house, then turn right onto a footpath. Explorer 160 Windsor, Weybridge, & Bracknell. junction. This footpath runs parallel to Nine After about 360 yards (330ms) the path joins a Mile Ride for about half a mile (0.8km). When tarmac roadway. At the large metal gates across  After about half a mile (0.8km) leave the Grid reference for start of walk is 881662. Bluebells at Ambarrow Section 3 the roundabout is in sight, bear left through the road the route continues to the left into the 13 lane and join a footpath on your left where Refreshments: The Look Out includes a coffee an opening to the road. Cross over and follow Jennett’s Park Development. Easthampstead Park to Warfield the road bends sharp right. The walk shop and picnic area. There are various inns Nine Mile Ride past the roundabout, taking the Church : 8 miles (12.9km) follows a field edge footpath to Carter’s To complete the southern loop and return to The along the route - including The Crooked Billet first left into Honey Hill. Follow this minor road Hill. Turn right along a short section of Look Out, continue southwards, predominantly Starting in Bracknell town, this route section road then take the path to the left down near Easthampstead Park and The Shepherds northwards for 1 mile (1.6km), to the Crooked along tarmac roads, for 1.2 miles (1.9km) takes you on into the attractive farmland and a surfaced driveway. Just after the large House at in Warfield. Billet public house. passing Downshire Golf Course and the countryside of Binfield parish. Key places house set back on your left hand side, include Tarman’s Copse, Pope’s Meadow,  Turn right into Redlake Lane and where the crematorium on your right. On reaching the main don’t miss the path through the hedge on Public transport: Bus services coincide with Hazelwood Copse and Frost Folly. 8 road passes through a ford turn right again road (Nine Mile Ride) turn left. Carry straight on the left. You will emerge into parts of the Ramblers Route. The route also onto a farm track. Pass a stable block on Lane, opposite Billingbear Farmhouse. Turn passes Crowthorne Train Station (in Section 2) at the roundabout and follow a woodland path your right and continue straight ahead along To continue the northern section of the right and follow the lane downhill to a main and close to station (in Section 4) running parallel along the left-hand side of Nine a cross-field footpath. Turn right and follow route turn left through the kissing gate into road. on Bracknell’s eastern outskirts. Mile Ride, for 1.4 miles (2.3km) to return to The 10 the Easthampstead Road for just under half Look Out. the housing estate. The original footpath Cross the road and follow a track to the a mile (0.8 km), then turn left along another has been legally diverted further to the right (Hill Farm Lane).Continue for about Google Maps is a useful tool to help you plan To complete a circuit of the northern loop on 14 cross-field footpath which emerges on Old north. Follow the surfaced path past the half a mile (0.8km) to Hill Farm, where you your journey by car, public transport, walking Wokingham Road, marking the boundary its own, follow this route (highlighted) in reverse car park to the next footpath junction. Turn turn right onto a tarmac road for a further or bicycle. right and right again. Cross two roads and between Wokingham District and Bracknell from The Look Out and continue on to Sections half mile. At the next junction take the path at the next footpath junction turn left up the 3 and 4. on the left along the edge of the football http://maps.google.co.uk slope and then down into Tarmans Copse. field. Turn right into Ryehurst Lane and Continue straight, through the copse after a short while turn left over the bridge Englemere Pond, taken by Anna Roberts Section 2 across a road and on down the hill to join Peacock Lane. into Cabbage Hill Lane. At Peacock Lane turn right past the T urn left at the sign for Bracknell Sewage 11 and take the first turning to the left to the 15 Treatment Works and follow the bridleway footbridge. Take the footbridge over the along Hazelwood Lane north-eastwards Section 2 A329 dual carriageway and the London for 0.8 miles (1.3km); this lane marks the to Reading railway line. Head north, turn boundary between the parishes of Binfield At the end of the school’s playing field, turn Wildmoor Heath to Easthampstead right at the next junction, pass the dry and Warfield. To your left you will pass left by a ‘private road’ sign and follow the Park : 5.5 miles (8.9 km) 5 ski-slope on your left, part of the John Hazelwood Copse, an area of ancient This part of the route takes you along the PROW Footpath signs taking the left fork of Nike Leisure Sport Complex, and then go woodland, and to your right, the grounds eastern boundary of Bracknell borough, and the woodland path alongside the railway line, straight over at the roundabout, continuing of Warfield Hall. Cross Bottle Lane and briefly into Wokingham district. The route which links Guilford and Reading. Continue along Beehive Road. Follow the road up to continue until you reach the junction with passes through mixed woodland, residential northwards for about 1 mile (1.5km), passing the junction with London Road and cross Buckle Lane on the right, by a bungalow. areas, a golf course and farmland. Places of Wellington College, a famous public school, over at the traffic lights into St Marks Road Follow this road and cross the A3095 in Binfield. Turn immediately left through a interest include Ambarrow Court, Wellington on your right. Continue on this path until you by the Shepherds House public house. gate and join a gravel path running parallel College and Easthampstead Park. Continue straight on up Bowyers Lane for emerge on Duke’s Ride alongside Crowthorne to the road. This footpath leads to Pope’s about 500 yards (450m), bearing right at Railway Station. Meadow, an attractive countryside site To start the route from the car park at the next junction to join a footpath at the managed by Bracknell Forest Council. 4 Wildmoor Heath, turn right along the main entrance to Frost’s Folly country car park. Founded in 1859 and built as a road for about 160 yards (150m) until you Pope’s Meadow was once part of the Follow this footpath for 0.7 miles (1.1 km) monument to the first Duke of Wellington, see the bridleway sign on opposite side of grounds of Pope’s Manor, where the 18th turning right through a large kissing gate the road. To continue the clockwise route, the college was originally a school for the century poet lived. Pope near some houses, to reach St Michael’s cross the main road and follow the bridleway orphans of army officers. Crowthorne Station was spent his childhood at Binfield and sang in the Church at Warfield. downhill through mixed woodland for about originally named Wellington College Station and local choir. half a mile (0.8km). Avoid turnings off and was built principally for the College in 1861. continue ahead onto Sandy Lane. Turn right Turn left alongside a fence, skirt a pond into Chiltern Road, then first right into Cheviot 12 and follow the Ramblers Route waymarks Road. Follow the road round to the left across Pope’s Meadow to an exit in its Frost Folly is one of three Accessible through the housing area and then turn right north-west corner. Turn right into Murrell Rural Routes, the others being Larks onto a signed footpath. Hill Lane. At the next junction bear left into Foxley Lane and continue on to join Hill and Jocks Lane. These routes are Forest Road, originally a sheep drovers’ free of stiles and other serious obstacles which road linking London and the West Country. make rural paths difficult for the less mobile. In Ambarrow Court on Lower Sandhurst Road (A321) can also be used as a starting point for this section Turn right and follow the road for about 520 all cases the surfaces are adequate but some of the route. This mainly wooded countryside site contains interesting original Victorian features including yards (475m). Pass Binfield Place on the sections will be rough and difficult for manually left, dating from about 1627 and claimed to propelled wheelchairs. Leaflets detailing these bamboo, yew hedges and large specimen trees such as Douglas fir and Cedar. Please take care when be the oldest house in Binfield parish and routes are available on our website. using the level crossing. then turn left at the roundabout into Wicks Green.