Quarr Abbey Woodland
GREEN ROUTE GREEN Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #10
FOR ADVENTUROUS FAMILIES
START/FINISH: Quarr Abbey, Fishbourne, PO33 4ER TIME: 1 Hour DISTANCE: 1 mile
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Southampt THE EGYPT POINT OLD CASTLE POINT SOLENT E GURNARD BAY Cowes Gurnard East Cowes Lymington B 3 3 2 5 OSBORNE BAY Portsmouth - Ryde
Passenger Hovercraft Portsmouth - Fishbourne Vehicle/Passenger Ferry Portsmouth - Ryde Rew Street Passenger Ferry THORNESS BAY MV ER I END AI RYDE PIER HEAD Whippingham HERITAGE COAST RYDE
Vehicle/PassengerLymington Ferry - Yarmouth Northwood ESPLANADE NEWTOWN A 1203 PUCKPOOL BAY POINT Marks WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne 0 2 0 3 A Corner DODNOR A 3 0 5 4 CREEK & Ryde DICKSONS Quarr Hill Binstead 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 SEAGROVE BAY Wootton COPSE Hamstead PARKHURST Common FOREST NEWTOWN RIVER Newtown Parkhurst Nettlestone P SMALLBROOK 0 4 3 3 B P R I O R Y B AY NINGWOOD JUNCTION SCONCE BRIDDLESFORD Havenstreet COMMON P COPSES POINT SWANPOND NODE’S POINT BOULDNOR Cranmore Newtown deserted HAVENSTREET COPSE P COPSE Medieval village P P A 3 0 5 4 Norton Bouldnor Ashey P A 3 0 5 5 St Helens Cli End Yarmouth Shaleet BEMBRIDGE Ningwood Newport POINT
ASHEY B 3 3 3 0 A 3 0 5 4Norton MILL COPSE Thorley Thorley Street Carisbrooke SHIDE
Green CHALK PIT NUNWELL TRAIL B 3 3 9 0 COLWELL BAY WAY FRESHWATER Bembridge B 3 4 0 1 R I V E R YA R EAGLEHEAD AND BRADING 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 Newbridge BRADING FORELAND 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 TOTLAND BAY ARRETON DOWN BRADING Freshwater 105 DOWN P Brading Down HAMSTEAD TRAIL 109 BEMBRIDGE TRAIL Bowcombe Field System Calbourne 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 WHITECLIFF BAY Middleton B 3 4 0 1 Adgestone 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 Alverstone B 3 3 2 2 Mortuary Freshwater Bay 164 Yaverland 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 Chessell Horringford MARTIN’S P D O W N 165 BRIGHSTONE 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’ Gatcombe Merstone ALVERSTONE MEAD, NEEDLES TENNYSON TRAIL D O W N 213 CLIFF FRESHWATER BAY Brook Down Harboro’ Barrow YOUNGWOODS COPSE B 3 3 9 5 P Mottistone Down AND SANDOWN 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 COMPTON BAY A 3 0 5 6 Winford 175 Rookley SCRATCHELL’S The Longstone 165 R O W B O R O U G H Chillerton BAY 167 Hulverstone D O W N Hill Fort Sandown P 106 HERITAGE COAST Brook LAKE 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 Apse Heath P WORSLEY TRAIL
B R O O K B AY Moortown P A 302 Shorwell AMERICA SANDOWN WOOD BAY Brighstone P P P Limerstone B 3 3 9 9 Sandford P SHANKLIN Whiteley Bank Yaord RIVER MEDINA Godshill STENBURY TRAIL 94 Thorncross Shanklin
85 Upper Hyde SHEPHERDS TRAIL SIBDEN HILL & H E R IT A G E C O A S T Worsley Monument BATTS COPSE
A 3 0 5 5 70 S T M A R T I N ’ S
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 Chale 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 Bonchurch 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 REW DOWN St. Catherine’s Kingates Chale Oratory Ventnor P M O N K S B AY C H A L E B AY ST LAWRENCE 237 UNDERCLIFF Niton Blackgang 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 REETH BAY ST CATHERINE’S POINT CHANNEL HERITAGE COAST
DIRECTIONS:
A START: The walk starts from the Quarr Abbey Car Park. Cross E This meandering walk will bring you to Bridleway 4a. Take the bridleway Bridleway 3 into the Abbey grounds. Make sure you visit the pigs B on north towards the sea. Look up to see if you can see the mistletoe growing route. in the trees. C Make your way through the Abbey gates and look for the Woodland F This Bridleway will bring you out near the Abbey Ruins. The ruins are Walk on your left. well worth a look. Try to spot the oak tree that has grown up through D This is a lovely amble through a small copse and will bring you out on the ruined arches. From here it is a short walk back to the start along Quarr Quarr Road, Bridleway 3. Cross the bridleway and you will enter another Road (Bridleway 3), or possibly (if you are lucky) to the Tea Room. FINISH small woodland.
Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions.