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Please see map on reverse 2. Leave by the main door. Walk service from Windsor, stopping down the lime tree avenue, turning near Chaplain’s Lodge. Cow Pond right on reaching the road. Go through Cumberland Gate, turn left The Obelisk and follow the road to reach the Leave by the main door. Walk . down the lime tree avenue, turning (Round trip, both 2 miles/3.2 km). right on reaching the road. After going through Cumberland Gate, Copper Horse and walk down the recently planted grassy avenue towards the obelisk Leave by the main door. Walk which you will see up the hill on down the lime tree avenue (note your left. The obelisk the mistletoe on the older trees). commemorates the Duke of This avenue was planted about Cumberland’s victory at the Battle 1697 by William Bentinck, Earl of of Culloden. Portland. Halfway down, set back (Round trip 2 miles/3.2 km). about thirty yards to the right, there It is possible to walk round the is an oak tree, planted in 1888 to Leave by the side door and walk Obelisk Pond (1 mile/1.6 km) or to commemorate the coming of age straight on past the Mews. At the go on towards the Valley Gardens. of Prince Christian Victor of end of the lane, cross the road and Schleswig-Holstein, the eldest follow the rough track on the right Valley Gardens child of Prince and Princess (opposite Chaplain’s Lodge) down and Christian. Cross the road and through woodland. Passing Ox follow the recently planted Pond on your left, this leads to a Ranger’s Avenue to Cow Pond. As wide grassy track at the end of you walk along the avenue note which is a big gate into the Deer Coronation Grove on your left, a Park with the statue beyond. The collection of oaks donated by the statue is of George III, dressed as countries of the Commonwealth to Marcus Aurelius, on horseback. commemorate the coronation of There is a fine view of Windsor Leave by the main door. Walk King George VI and Queen , looking down the Long down the lime tree avenue, turning Elizabeth in 1937. Walk (2.5 miles/4 km) which was right on reaching the road. Go (Round trip 1 mile/1.6 km). planned by for through Cumberland Gate and Charles II. Unless you want to follow the road across Smith’s Cow Pond and return the same way, go down the Lawn (with the polo ground on Rhododendron Ride hill beyond the statue to the road. your left). Note the statue of Prince As before to Cow Pond. Circle Turn left to leave the deer park, Albert on horseback on your right. round the pond to the right, and turn left two more times as the On reaching the far side of the passing the oak arbour (erected in road forks (1 mile/1.6km). Lawn, either :1.turn left along the 2013 to mark The Queen’s Alternatively, turn right, continue road by the Guard’s Polo Club, Diamond Jubilee), and turn left on the road until you reach the taking the second turning right for where the path joins a track on the crossroads just outside the Deer the track leading into the Valley far side of the pond. Follow the Park and follow the signposts for Gardens (no charge for entry). track between rhododendron . Various walks are signposted; or 2. hedges until you reach (Round trip 3 miles/4.8km). continue along the road down into Bishopsgate. Take the road, the valley until you reach the lake, Windsor turning left and the next left (before where you can turn left on to the the pink gate houses), and return lakeside path. to Cumberland Lodge. Best in (Round trip 3 miles/4.8 km; the full May/June when rhododendrons circuit of Virginia Water is 4.5 are in flower. miles/7.2 km). (Round trip 3.5 miles/5.6km). The Village Savill Garden Leave by the side door and walk 1. As above to Cow Pond. Circle Go to as above straight past the Mews. Turn left at round the pond to the right, the road, bearing right (with passing the oak arbour, and turn and continue in a straight line down the Long Walk until you Chaplain’s Lodge on your left) and right where the path joins the track follow the road down the hill, going on the far side of the pond. Follow reach . Turn left to reach the town centre and the straight on at the crossroads. The this track until it joins a road, shop/Post Office is after the Green continuing straight ahead to reach public entrance to the Castle (round trip 9 miles, 14.4 km). on the right. the Savill Building visitor’s centre, (Round trip 2 miles/3.2 km). Take the same route back, or a with gift shop, cafe and garden entrance. There is a charge to taxi from outside the Castle. There is a very occasional white bus enter the garden. Photography: Gill Aspel ETON DATCHETROYALR OYAL BOROUGHBOROUGH OFOF 36 2 WINDSORWINDSOR & MAIDENHEADMAIDENHEAD B 3 N 7 6 36 IN 2 36 B s 2 3 WINDSOR & THE GREAT PARK 0 38 3 3 02 B 6 4 Great Park Boundary 9 I I I I T I I I 18 hame RomneyRomney I I 1 s Pat I I I Roads FOOTPATH MAP h N LockLock I 9 I

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