Stomping About in Shorwell
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Stomping about in Shorwell BLUE ROUTE BLUE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #2 FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS WHO DON’T MIND A BIT OF A CHALLENGE START/FINISH: Russel Road, Shorwell PO30 3JT TIME: 3-4 Hours DISTANCE: 6 miles G 13 11 F B A 4 15 C 44 E 42 22 Map: © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap © Mapbox, © Map: Portsmouth To Southampton Southsea on - Cowes on - East Cowes assenger Ferry P / assenger Ferry P Southampt Vehicle Southampt THE EGYPT POINT OLD CASTLE POINT SOLENT 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 RIVER MEDINA RYDE PIER HEAD Whippingham HERITAGE COAST RYDE Vehicle/PassengerLymington Ferry - Yarmouth Northwood ESPLANADE NEWTOWN A 3 0 2 1 PUCKPOOL BAY POINT WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne Marks A 3 0 2 0 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 LAKE WOOTTON SEAVIEW DUVER HERITAGE COAST Porcheld FIRESTONE SEAGROVE BAY Wootton COPSE Hamstead PARKHURST Common FOREST NEWTOWN RIVER Newtown Parkhurst Nettlestone D 0 4 3 3 B P SMALLBROOK 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 56 A 3 0 5 4 Norton 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 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 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 3 0 2 0 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 39B 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: Shorwell is a picturesque Island village with thatched E As you pass Kingston Manor, join Sandy Lane for a short while then cottages mostly built of stone. This walk takes you on a journey around turn right on to Foot Path 42. Head north passing Billingham Manor and the surrounding area which is some of the most fertile farm land found join Bridleway 44 which will join Bridleway 15. on the Island. Start from Russell Road, Shorwell. Walk west until you F Continue north until you meet Berry Shute. Look for Bridleway 13 on reach the corner where Russell Road and Fine Lane meet. the left hand side of the road. Take Bridleway 13 leading to Bridleway 11 B Take Bridleway 4 South to Wolverton Manor. Wolverton Manor is all the way to Farriers Way, Shorwell. a Jacobean manor house shaped like the letter E when viewed from G Continue north until you meet Berry Shute. Look for Bridleway 13 on above. As you walk past the house, you will also have gorgeous views of the left hand side of the road. Take Bridleway 13 leading to Bridleway 11 the surrounding farmland leading up to the Downs. all the way to Farriers Way, Shorwell.. FINISH C The foot path will take you onto Wolverton Lane, from here you are looking for a left hand turn along Doctors Lane heading to Samber Hill (Bridleway 22). D Continue to Atherfield Road and look for a left turn on to a path leading to Dungewood and Kingston (Byway 56). Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions..