Fetler Yell North Roe Shetland Islands Muckle Roe Brae Voe Mainland
Foula Lerwick
Sumburgh
Fair Isle
Westray Sanday Rousay
Stronsay Mainland Orkney Islands Kirkwall Shapinsay Scarpa Flow Hoy South Ronaldsay
Cape Island of Stroma Wrath Scrabster John O'Groats Castletown Durness Thurso Port of Ness Melvich Borgh Bettyhill Cellar Watten Noss Head Head Tongue Wick Forsinard Gallan Isle of Lewis Head Port nan Giuran Stornoway Latheron Unapool Altnaharra Kinbrace WESTERN ISLES Lochinver Scarp Helmsdale Hushinish Point Airidh a Bhruaich Lairg Taransay Tarbert Shiant Islands Greenstone Point Scalpay Ullapool Bonar Bridge Harris Rudha Reidh Pabbay Dornoch Tarbat Berneray Dundonnell Ness Port nan Long Tain Gairloch Lossiemouth North Uist Invergordon Lochmaddy Alness Cullen Cromarty Macdu Fraserburgh Monach Islands Ban Uig Rona Elgin Buckie Baleshare Kinlochewe Garve Dingwall Achnasheen Forres Benbecula Ronay Nairn Baile Mhanaich Torridon MORAY Keith Dunvegan Turri Peterhead Portree Inverness Aberlour Geirinis Raasay Lochcarron Huntly Du town Rudha Stromeferry Ellon Hallagro Kyle of Cannich Lochalsh Drumnadrochit Rhynie Oldmeldrum South Uist Isle of Skye Dornie Kyleakin HIGHLAND Grantown-on- Spey Inverurie Lochboisdale Invermoriston Alford Shiel Bridge Aviemore
Canna Airor ABERDEENSHIRE Aberdeen Barra Ardvasar Inverie Invergarry Kingussie Heaval Castlebay Rum Newtonmore Vatersay Mallaig Banchory Laggan Braemar Ballater Sandray Rosinish Eigg Arisaig Glen nnan Dalwhinnie Stonehaven Mingulay Spean Bridge Berneray Muck Fort William SCOTLAND ANGUS Onich Coll Ballachulish Glencoe Pitlochry Brechin Montrose Tobermory PERTH AND KINROSS Kirriemuir Forfar Lochaline Portnacroish Aberfeldy Blairgowrie Tiree Dunkeld Coupar Angus Arbroath Ulva Craignure Connel Carnoustie Killin Isle of Mull Moni eth Dundee Tayport Iona Oban Dalmally Crianlarich Lochearnhead Newport Fionnphort Crie Perth -on-Tay Bridge of Earn Cupar St Andrews Luing Ardlui STIRLING Auchterarder Auchtermuchty Inveraray Ladybank Callander Falkland Fife Ness Scarba Tarbet FIFE Strachur Kinross Dunblane Elie Colonsay Lochgoilhead Bridge of Allan CLACKMANNAN Glenrothes Buckhaven Stirling Lochgilphead Garelochhead Alloa Kirkcaldy Ardlussa Cowdenbeath Oronsay Dunfermline North Berwick Grangemouth ARGYLL & BUTE Helensburgh Denny Inverkeithing EAST Dunbar Dunoon Gourock Alexandria Kilsyth Falkirk FALKIRK South Queensferry Jura Linlithgow Edinburgh LOTHIAN Greenock Dumbarton Kirkintilloch Cumbernauld Haddington Tighnabruaich INVERCLYDE NORTH Musselburgh Clydebank Bathgate St Abb's Head Port Askaig Tarbert LANARKSHIRE Livingston Dalkeith RENFREWSHIRE Airdrie Kennacraig Rothesay Paisley WEST Bonnyrigg Eyemouth Glasgow Shotts LOTHIAN Largs Johnstone Penicuik Islay Motherwell MIDLOTHIAN Rhinns Point Millport Hamilton East Kilbride EAST Carluke Berwick-upon-Tweed Gigha RENFREWSHIRE NORTH AYRSHIRE Larkhall Lauder Primmill Kilwinning Strathaven Holy Island Port Ellen Killean Ardrossan Lanark Peebles Lesmahagow Coldstream Irvine Kilmarnock Biggar Galashiels Brodick Kelso Arran SOUTH Bamburgh Holy Troon LANARKSHIRE Mauchline Selkirk Malin Head Isle Prestwick Ayr Abington Campbeltown Cumnock BORDERS Jedburgh Tory Island EAST New Cumnock Hawick Alnwick Rathlin Island AYRSHIRE Bloody Horn Head Inishowen Mull of Kintyre Maybole Foreland Carndonagh Head Dalmellington Mo at NORTHUMBERLAND Amble Moville Portrush Portstewart Ballycastle Girvan SOUTH Buncrana Bushmills AYRSHIRE Coleraine DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Otterburn Ashington Morpeth Newbiggin- Aran Island Limavady Ballymoney Carsphairn by-the-Sea Cushendall Lochmaben Lockerbie Langholm Londonderry Ballantrae Bedlington Blyth Letterkenny LONDONDERRY New Dumfries ANTRIM Ponteland Dungiven Galloway Whitley Bay DONEGAL Cairnryan Longtown Gosforth South Shields Annan NORTHERN Newton Stewart Gretna Hexham Corbridge Newcastle upon Tyne Strabane Ballymena Castle Douglas Jarrow Ballybofey Maghera Stranraer Dalbeattie Brampton Gateshead Rossan Point Larne Sunderland Portpatrick Carlisle Washington Magherafelt Kirkcudbright Consett Stanley Castlederg Randalstown Wigton Killybegs Newtownstewart Whitehead Donegal Moneymore Antrim Carrickfergus Whithorn Alston Durham St John's Point TYRONE Brandon Peterlee Bangor Maryport Omagh Cookstown Drummore Donaghadee Burrow Spennymoor Ballyshannon Crumlin Holywood Head Penrith Hartlepool IRELAND Workington Cockermouth Bishop Auckland Bundoran Belfast Newtownards Appleby-in- Dungannon Carrydu Comber Keswick Westmorland Newton Redcar Lisburn Aycli e Whitehaven CUMBRIA DURHAM Middlesbrough Balderg FERMANAGH Craigavon Lurgan Guisborough Dromore Brough Darlington Whitby Belmullet Easky Egremont Enniskillen Portadown Ballynahinch Killyleagh Stokesley Sligo Armagh Portaferry Ambleside Scotch Corner Robin Hood’s Bay Tandragee Banbridge Richmond Lisnaskea Andreas Windermere DOWN Downpatrick Coniston Monaghan ARMAGH Catterick Keady Ballaugh Ramsey Kendal Sedbergh Northallerton Ballycroy Ballina LEITRIM Castlewellan Leyburn Scalby SLIGO Newtownbutler Rathfriland Hawes Scarborough Clones MONAGHAN ISLE OF MAN MAYO Newry Newcastle Achill Peel Laxey Thirsk Pickering Ballybay Millom Ulverston Filey Island Castleblayney Kirkby Lonsdale NORTH YORKSHIRE Cootehill Warrenpoint Douglas Boyle Crossmaglen Grange-over- Ingleton Swinford Kilkeel Sands Ripon Malton Flamborough Port Erin Barrow-in-Furness Carnforth Easingwold Head Carrick-on-Shannon Cavan Castletown Bridlington Clare Castlebar Ballaghaderreen Carrickmacross Dundalk Walney Morecambe Settle Island Lancaster Westport Bailieborough Isle Heysham Dri eld ROSCOMMON Knaresborough Inishturk LOUTH Harrogate Ballyhaunis CAVAN LANCASHIRE Skipton York EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE Castlerea Ilkley Wetherby Inishbo n Claremorris Ardee Fleetwood Pocklington LONGFORD Granard Garstang Keighley Market Inishark Longford Bingley Yeadon Tadcaster Leenane Colne Weighton Ballinrobe Kells Clitheroe Shipley Beverley Roscommon Blackpool Nelson Leeds Selby Drogheda Kirkham Burnley Bradford Garforth WEST YORKSHIRE Hull Clifden Lytham St Anne's Preston Todmorden Hessle Withernsea REPUBLIC Navan Halifax Castleford Tuam WESTMEATH Leyland Rawtenstall Brighouse Batley Goole Maam Cross Balbriggan Wake eld Pontefract Southport Hudders eld Mullingar Trim Skerries Chorley Spurn Head OF IRELAND MEATH Rochdale Hemsworth Thorne Scunthorpe Kilkieran GALWAY Rush Ormskirk Standish Bolton Bury Cleethorpes Athlone Formby GREATER MANCHESTER Grimsby Swords Barnsley Brigg Wigan Oldham SOUTH Galway Moate Malahide Penistone Doncaster Caistor Athenry Ballinasloe Crosby Salford YORKSHIRE Clara Maynooth DUBLIN MERSEYSIDE MANCHESTER Oranmore Lucan Carmel Head Bootle Stocksbridge Edenderry St Helens Sale Stockport Glossop Celbridge Wallasey Rotherham Bawtry OFFALY Tullamore Clondalkin Dublin Great Liverpool Warrington Gainsborough Inishmore Moelfre Birkenhead Cheadle Market Loughrea Gogarth Orme Prestatyn Altrincham Rasen Louth Dun Laoghaire Colwyn Widnes She eld Mablethorpe KILDARE Tallaght Holyhead Anglesey Llandudno Whaley Ballyvaughan Kilcormac Bay Wilmslow Worksop Retford Inisheer Banagher Newbridge Naas Beaumaris Rhyl Runcorn Knutsford Bridge Dron eld Portarlington Bray Holy Island Llangefni Conwy Abergele Flint Staveley Gort Birr Kildare Frodsham Northwich Buxton Lincoln Mountmellick Monasterevin Bangor Chester eld Greystones CONWY Chester Middlewich Bakewell Horncastle Ingoldmells Bethesda FLINTSHIRE DERBYSHIRE Ollerton Winsford Congleton Mans eld LINCOLNSHIRE Ennistymon Portlaoise Caernarfon Llanrwst Denbigh Clay Cross Skegness Mountrath Mold CHESHIRE Biddulph Matlock CLARE Llanberis Betws- Ruthin Crewe NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Coningsby Roscrea LAOIS Athy WICKLOW Leek Alfreton y-coed DENBIGHSHIRE Wirksworth Ripley Newark-on-Trent Ennis Wicklow Wrexham Nantwich Kidsgrove Burnham Nenagh Abbeyleix Stoke-on-Trent Belper Hucknall Blaenau Ffestiniog Ruabon Newcastle- Sleaford Market Sheringham Rathdrum under-Lyme Ashbourne Ilkeston Boston Porthmadog Llangollen WREXHAM Nottingham Hunstanton Cromer Templemore Carlow Whitchurch Kilkee Castlecomer Bala Uttoxeter Stapleford Beeston Grantham Sutterton North Tullow Pwllheli Criccieth Ellesmere Stone Derby Kilrush Market Drayton Long Eaton Donington Walsham Happisburgh Arklow GWYNEDD Oswestry Fakenham Limerick Abersoch Wem STAFFORDSHIRE Burton upon Aylsham CARLOW Trent Holbeach Thurles Spalding Bardsey Sta ord Loughborough King's Lynn Bagenalstown Island SHROPSHIRE Ballybunion Kilkenny Gorey Dolgellau Ashby-de-la-Zouch Bourne TIPPERARY Barmouth Rugeley Melton Mowbray NORFOLK Rathkeale LIMERICK Newport Crowland KILKENNY Borris WEXFORD Mallwyd Shrewsbury East Caister-on-Sea Listowel Cannock Lich eld Coalville Oakham Swa ham Cashel Callan Welshpool Telford LEICESTERSHIRE Stamford Dereham Norwich Newcastle West Tipperary Graiguenamanagh Tamworth RUTLAND Wisbech Great Thomastown S. GLOUCESTERSHIRE Leicester Yarmouth Abbeyfeale Tywyn Walsall Downham Watton Wymondham Enniscorthy Machynlleth Wolverhampton Oadby Kilmallock Aberdy Montgomery Hinckley Blaby Uppingham Market Charleville Cahir Blackwater Peterborough Attleborough Newtown Bridgnorth Nuneaton Market Lowestoft Tralee Church West Bromwich Oundle Wimblington Clonmel New Ross WEST LITTLETON Stretton Dudley Birmingham Harborough Bungay Beccles Castleisland Carrick-on-Suir POWYS Corby Chatteris Llanidloes Stourbridge Littleport Brandon Thetford Mitchelstown 03 Aberystwyth WEST MIDLANDS Bedworth Rothwell Sawtry Diss Dingle Wexford Llangurig Clun Kidderminster Kettering Ely KERRY Ludlow Solihull COVENTRY CAMBRIDGESHIRE Halesworth Kanturk Waterford Huntingdon Mildenhall Southwold Killorglin WALES Stourport- Bromsgrove NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Eye Knighton Rugby Brampton Mallow WATERFORD Rosslare on-Severn Leamington Spa Killarney Fermoy 12.8 Distance Time CEREDIGION GradeRhayader RefreshmentsRedditch Wellingborough Rushden Warwick Waterbeach Bury St Edmunds Millstreet Tramore Aberaeron Llandrindod Presteigne Droitwich Daventry Saxmundham Newmarket Leiston Cahersiveen Dungarvan 12.8km/8 miles New4 Quay hoursTregaron ModerateWells Leominster 0 pubs/0 cafésWARWICKSHIRE Northampton St Neots Stowmarket Valentia Island WORCESTERSHIRE SUFFOLK Aldeburgh Kington Bromyard Stratford Cambridge CORK Worcester upon Avon Bedford Stradishall Woodbridge Kenmare Builth Wells HEREFORDSHIRE Pershore Towcester Macroom Youghal Strumble Cardigan Lampeter Shipston- Newport Pagnell Cork Great Malvern Biggleswade Ipswich Midleton Head on-Stour BEDFORDSHIRE Sudbury Newcastle Hay-on-Wye Evesham Milton Keynes Royston Caherdaniel Fishguard Hereford Ledbury Banbury Brackley Sa ron Cobh Cloyne Emlyn Llandovery Felixstowe Mathry Broadmead Brook runs Tewkesbury Moreton-in-Marsh Letchworth Baldock Walden Buckingham Leighton Halstead Manningtree Harwich Brecon Hitchin Dunmanway St David's CARMARTHENSHIRE Stow-on-the-Wold Chipping Norton Buzzard Stevenage Bantry Bandon Ramsey PEMBROKESHIRE between the villages of West PLANRoss-on- WYOURye Colchester Kinsale Carmarthen Llandeilo Bicester Braintree Dursey Island Bear Island Island Newgale Cheltenham Dunstable Luton Stansted ESSEX Littleton and West Kington.Crickhowell Gloucester BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HERTFORDSHIRE Haverfordwest St Clears Abergavenny Kidlington Clonakilty ROUTEGLOUCESTERSHIRE Tring Ware Witham Brightlingsea Clacton-on-Sea Narberth Ammanford Monmouth Witney Aylesbury Skomer Milford Ebbw Brynmawr St Albans Skibbereen Island Merthyr Harlow Haven Tyd l Vale Blaenavon Carterton Oxford Wendover Chelmsford Neyland Kidwelly NEATH MERTHYR BLAENAU GWENT MONMOUTHSHIRE Stroud Hemel Hat eld Skokholm PORT TALBOT Aberdare TYDFIL Pontypool Lydney Cirencester OXFORDSHIRE Thame Hempstead Maldon Island Pembroke Tenby Llanelli Southminster Glyncorrwg TORFAEN Nailsworth Amersham RHONDDA Bargoed Abingdon Watford Barnet Clear Island Neath CYNON TAFF Chepstow Faringdon En eld Brentwood Swansea CAERPHILLY Cwmbran Rayleigh St Govan's Maesteg Tetbury Cricklade Didcot High Wycombe Chigwell SWANSEA Port Pontypridd Risca Newport Wantage Harrow Head Caldicot Wallingford Marlow Basildon Port Eynon Talbot Malmesbury Uxbridge GREATER LONDON Southend-on-Sea Caerphilly NEWPORT Henley BRIDGEND Swindon Maidenhead Canvey Island CARDIFF Avonmouth Slough LONDON Porthcawl Bridgend Woolwich Tilbury Cardi BRISTOL BERKSHIRE Windsor Dartford Sheerness Cowbridge Chippenham Reading Richmond Gravesend Margate VALE OF GLAMORGAN Bristol Staines Clevedon Corsham Avebury Hungerford Rochester Barry Marlborough Newbury Bracknell Kingston Congresbury Bath Melksham Sutton Chatham Ramsgate Croydon Sittingbourne Weston-super-Mare Devizes Woking Epsom Kingsclere Camberley Maidstone Faversham Sandwich Trowbridge WILTSHIRE Leatherhead Caterham
Cheddar SOUTHERN ENGLAND Basingstoke Aldershot Reigate Sevenoaks KENT Canterbury Deal Lynton Burnham-on-Sea Westbury Dorking Oxted Lynmouth Frome Andover Whitchurch Tonbridge Lundy Ilfracombe Minehead Farnham Guildford Redhill Wells Warminster East Ashford Pilton Godalming SURREY Dover Watchet Glastonbury HAMPSHIRE Grinstead Braunton Amesbury Alton Cranbrook Folkestone Bridgwater Street Crawley Tunbridge Wells
New20 Alresford Barnstaple Mere Haslemere Tenterden Hythe ROUTE Wilton Winchester Liphook Horsham Crowborough Wincanton New Romney Bideford South Molton Taunton SOMERSET Salisbury Billingshurst Haywards Heath Hartland Is it for me?Shaftesbury A gently Peters eld Wellington Romsey Heath eld Rye Great Torrington Eastleigh Midhurst Pulborough Uck eld Ilminster undulatingYeovil Sherborne landscape. EAST SUSSEX Battle Dungeness Southampton WEST SUSSEX Hurstpierpoint Tiverton Lyndhurst Havant Arundel Chard SuitableCrewkerne for fairlyBlandford active Forum Fareham Lewes Hastings 18 Chichester Hailsham Bude Ringwood Hythe Worthing Hove Bexhill Holsworthy Brockenhurst Gosport Brighton Newhaven Crediton Honiton AxminsterPhoto: Nigel Vile walkers andWimborne well- Minster Bognor Lymington Regis Littlehampton Eastbourne Okehampton Bridport DORSET New Milton Portsmouth Seaford Exeter Seaton controlledDorchester dogs Cowes Ryde Boscastle Lyme Poole Newport Selsey DEVON Sidmouth Bournemouth Tintagel Launceston Regis Wareham ISLE 1 Stiles 7 Freshwater OF est Littleton is a pretty Start Exmouth WIGHT Shanklin Weymouth Swanage 16 Dawlish Ventnor Padstow enough place, tuckedWadebridge WalkTavistock back down road inTeignmouth West Fortuneswell W Ashburton Newton Abbot START/PARKING Bodmin Buckfastleigh Portland Bill away in a fold in the Cotswold LiskeaLittletonrd in directionTorquay of A46. Roadside by West Newquay CORNWALL Saltash Totnes Paignton Plymouth plateau. The local websiteSt Austell Looe TInorpoint 25m, at a junction, veerBrixham R Littleton church, grid Plympton Dartmouth 14 talks of a Stbeautiful Agnes village,Fowey along a side lane that runs down ref ST762754. Follow Truro Kingsbridge Redruth St Ives Salcombe the A46 south from M4 with manyCamborne of its buildings and past common and a number of St Mawes St Just Falmouth junction 18 and, in one wallsPenzance built of Cotswold stone, properties. Keep on this lane – Sennen Helston mile, follow unclassified 12 Land's End and with stone-tiled roofs. it becomes a track – for 500m road into village Lizard Scilly Isles Even the hard-to-please to a footpath and step-stile Nearest town Nikolaus Pevsner was taken over a wall on L, 150m beyond a Chipping Sodbury with neighbouring West R-hand bend. Cross stile, bear Refreshments None 10 Kington. He wrote of a “pretty half-R and make for a stone Public toilets None Public transport None group of cottages by the slab-stile in R-hand boundary of bridge in the combe.” This is field ahead, almost in its far R MAPS 8 the southern Cotswolds at corner. Beyond this stile, keep Ordnance Survey its best – stone cottages, a walking in same direction, Explorer 155 & 156; handsome church, a sheltered clipping corner of field ahead, Landranger 172 & 173 6 valley and a sparkling to stile in its end boundary. watercourse. Running Walk ahead across next field
between the two villages is to gap in wall opposite before 4 the Broadmead Brook. crossing next field to a corner Hillsides replete with formed by two hedges. Pass
traditional grassland and flora through a gate at this point into 2 line each side of the river, with adjoining field – shown as the isolated location of this access land ‘West Littleton 0
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2 2.4km/1½ miles hand-gate on R to follow a path through gateway on L and Pass through gateway and join downhill into West Kington. follow path down to gate and lane, turn R and walk along to a On reaching a road in village, open fields. Follow path ahead crossroads in 400m. Follow keep ahead, crossing through valley for 2km, lane opposite for 2km to a Broadmead Brook, before crossing four fields, to bridleway on R. Turn R on to bearing R towards Marshfield ladder-stile over wall on far bridleway and follow what is a and Tormarton. In 50m, veer R side of fourth field. Beyond track across to Kington Down on to a footpath in front of a stile, cross road to stile Farm. Follow track to R of double-fronted property. In opposite and climb bank, R, up farmhouse and continue along 40m, turn R, cross footbridge to a drive leading to Ebbdown what becomes a metalled lane over Broadmead Brook and Farm. Follow drive to L, keep L for 800m to fringes of West turn L to follow river to a road. at an early fork and go uphill Kington. Just before lane drops Follow road ahead for 150m to towards farm. Beyond downhill into village, turn L on house called ‘Brookside’. farmhouse, follow a track to signposted bridleway. Follow across hilltop for 2.4km back this track across R edges of 3 6.8km/4¼ miles to road in West Littleton. Turn two fields, village below, R, in a Just past property, pass R back to parking area. valley. Pass through gate at far side of second field to enter Download Ordnance Survey maps to your PC, GPS, iPhone paddock in front of West or iPad with Digital Map Shop from Memory-Map Kington church. Walk ahead for 20m before passing through a © Country Walking January 2012