Quarr Woodland

GREEN ROUTE GREEN Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #10

FOR ADVENTUROUS FAMILIES

START/FINISH: , Fishbourne, PO33 4ER TIME: 1 Hour DISTANCE: 1 mile

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Passenger Hovercraft Portsmouth - Fishbourne Vehicle/Passenger Ferry Portsmouth - Ryde Passenger Ferry THORNESS BAY MV ER I END AI RYDE PIER HEAD HERITAGE COAST RYDE

Vehicle/PassengerLymington Ferry - Yarmouth Northwood ESPLANADE NEWTOWN A 1203 BAY POINT Marks WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne 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 Nettlestone 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 COLWELL BAY 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 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 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 WHITECLIFF BAY 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’ 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 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 COMPTON BAY 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 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

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 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 REW DOWN 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 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.