Yarmouth to Cranmore and Back Again

BLUE ROUTE BLUE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #7

FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS WHO DON’T MIND A BIT OF A CHALLENGE

START/FINISH: Yarmouth Green, Yarmouth, PO41 0NL TIME: 4 - 5 Hours DISTANCE: 8 miles G 1

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Vehicle/PassengerLymington Ferry - Yarmouth Northwood ESPLANADE NEWTOWN A 1203 BAY POINT WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne Marks 0 2 0 3 A Corner DODNOR A 3 0 5 4 CREEK & Ryde DICKSONS Quarr Hill RYDE COPSE Wootton ST JOHN’S ROAD Spring Vale Bridge C L A M E R K I N HERSEY RESERVE, Seaview L A K E WOOTTON SEAVIEW DUVER HERITAGE COAST Porcheld FIRESTONE Wootton COPSE Hamstead PARKHURST Common FOREST Newtown Parkhurst P SMALLBROOK 0 4 3 3 B P R I O R Y B AY JUNCTION SCONCE BRIDDLESFORD COMMON P COPSES POINT SWANPOND NODE’S POINT Cranmore Newtown deserted HAVENSTREET COPSE P COPSE Medieval village P P A 3 0 5 4 Norton Bouldnor P A 3 0 5 5 St Helens Cli End Yarmouth Shaleet Ningwood Newport POINT

ASHEY B 3 3 3 0 A 3 0 5 4Norton MILL COPSE Thorley SHIDE

Green CHALK PIT TRAIL B 3 3 9 0 WAY FRESHWATER Bembridge B 3 4 0 1 R I V E R YA R EAGLEHEAD AND GOLDEN P P A S H E Y BLOODSTONE COPSE HILL Wellow Shide 126 MARSHES B 3 4 0 1 131 P COUNTRY Downend D O W N R I V E R YA R PARK Five Houses P M E R S L E Y D O W N BRADING Brading FORELAND Newbridge S T G E O R G E ’ S Michael Morey’s The Devil’s Hump KNIGHTON DOWN B 3 3 9 5 A 3 0 5 5 138 D O W N Punchbowl BAY DOWN BRADING Freshwater 105 DOWN P Brading Down HAMSTEAD TRAIL 109 BEMBRIDGE TRAIL Field System 39 Totland AFTON TENNYSON TRAIL Arreton MARSHES Blackwater Morton Bembridge HATHERWOOD P P Fort 105 B 3 3 9 9 B E M B R I D G E Culver Middleton B 3 4 0 1 POINT Battery D O W N 100 Headon Afton 79 East Afton N E W B A R N 160 Langbridge Warren Down Barrows 151 Neolithic D O W N B 3 3 2 2 Mortuary Freshwater Bay 164 P Tennyson P E A S T A F T O N B R O O K 3 2 3 3 B Harborough Enclosure Newchurch Monument Memorial 147 D O W N MARTIN’S P D O W N 165 P A L U M B AY FOREST WOOD THE P W E S T H I G H D O W N C O M P T O N CULVER ‘Five Barrows’ , NEEDLES TENNYSON TRAIL D O W N 213 CLIFF FRESHWATER BAY Brook Down Harboro’ Barrow YOUNGWOODS COPSE B 3 3 9 5 P Down AND MEADOWS P B R I G H S T O N E 65 152 SANDOWN D O W N W E S T O V E R D O W N A 3 0 5 6 Winford 175 SCRATCHELL’S The Longstone 165 R O W B O R O U G H BAY 167 D O W N Hill Fort Sandown P 106 HERITAGE COAST Brook LAKE 19 HANOVER POINT P Mottistone C H I L L E R T O N Chillerton R I V E R YA R Lake D O W N P WORSLEY TRAIL

B R O O K B AY Moortown P A 302 AMERICA SANDOWN WOOD BAY Brighstone P P P B 3 3 9 9 Sandford P Ya†ord STENBURY TRAIL 94 Shanklin

85 Upper Hyde SHEPHERDS TRAIL SIBDEN HILL & H E R IT A G E C O A S T Worsley Monument BATTS COPSE

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Roud D O W N 209 235 154 S T E N B U R Y Luccombe BRIGHSTONE S H A N K L I N P D O W N Wroxall BAY Green D O W N P P 145 Ather eld Green 210 P LUCCOMBE BAY

Hoy’s 7 2 3 3 B Luccombe Down 93B B L E A K 199 Monument Southford 233 Barrow ATHERFIELD POINT D O W N 240 NANSEN S T B O N I FA C E HILL W E E K D O W N S T C AT H E R I N E ’ S D O W N P D O W N P Whitwell St. Catherine’s Kingates Chale Oratory P M O N K S B AY C H A L E B AY ST LAWRENCE 237 UNDERCLIFF P PELHAM WOODS VENTNOR BAY St Lawrence P A 3 0 5 5

P R O C K E N E N D BINNEL ENGLISH BAY ST CATHERINE’S POINT CHANNEL HERITAGE COAST C D 10 34 DIRECTIONS:

A START: The walk starts on Yarmouth Green near the harbour. take Cranmore Avenue. Head south on Foot Path 1 to past the Old Mill. Follow the Causeway G Follow road towards the north coast and then turn left on to the path which is the old Newport to Freshwater railway line. It passes Mill Coastal Path Foot Path 1 heading west. Copse and will bring you out on to Wilmingham Lane. H Continue on the coastal path until it runs out, then take the inland route B Cross the road and continue on Foot Path 1 to Broad Lane. Turn right back to the main road. Turn right walking to Bouldnor Viewpoint car park. onto Broad Lane and walk inland towards Tapnell. Take the Foot Path 11a along the sea wall towards Yarmouth. This will bring C Take Foot Path 10 on the left and cross the field. Join Foot Path 34. you to Yarmouth Common. D Turn left on to Bridleway 19, towards the Hamstead Trail. I From here it is a short walk along the High Street to The Square where if E Cross over the main street and continue on the Hamstead Trail on you continue to the Ferry Terminal and turn left you where will see the car Foot Path 8. At the woodland take the left fork and follow the path to the park and start point. FINISH road. F As you reach the main road, turn left, and use the cinder path alongside the road. When you reach the end of this path cross over and

Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions.