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Forest Centre to Millbrook & Ampthill Park Promoted A pleasant walk that leads you through the Millennium Route Country Park and surrounding farmland to the Georgian Market Town of Ampthill with its historical connections Let us keep you informed then onto the attractive village of Millbrook with its 1 distinctive cottages originally built to house the workers of the Duke of Bedford’s Estate. Access information You will walk across surface types ranging from hard & firm without stones to uneven cultivated ground and the steepest linear gradient is 1:6 with cross falls of 1:9 and steeper. A bridge has a restricted width of 980mm between points 2 & 3 on the map and there are steps at point 6 with a max step height of 300mm. Barriers along the For further information on all parts of the Forest of Marston path include a couple Vale, our activities, and the facilities of the Forest Centre of stiles and a number please visit: of kissing gates. Public www.marstonvale.org toilets are available at the Forest Centre and Receive news about the in Ampthill. Forest including what’s on (either by post or email) Facilities by signing up via our The Forest Centre has website or by calling the Watch ©out Neil for Wright red kites ample parking, toilets Forest Centre. and a café bar. The Chequers Pub is located in Millbrook and Ampthill has an The Forest Centre impressive mixture of shops, as well as public houses and Station Road toilets. Marston Moreteyne Bedfordshire, MK43 0PR Let the train take the strain! From Bedford or Bletchley alight at Millbrook Station T. 01234 767037 to start your walk via the Country Park Visitor Centre E. [email protected] (about 20 mins walk). Please note there is no Sunday service. For timetable details visit www.londonmidland. This leaflet was delivered by the Forest of Marston Vale Volunteers with assistance from The Marston Vale com or ring 08457 484950 Trust working in partnership with Central Bedfordshire District Council, Bedford Borough Council & The Brit- Bus timetable details ring 01234 220030 or visit ish Horse Society and was funded by Natural England www.travelsmart.com through the Paths for Communities Project. Let’s Go - for details of other walks or rides throughout Bedfordshire please visit www.letsgo.org.uk Partners: Forest Volunteers, Central Bedfordshire Council, Bedford Forest Centre to Millbrook Borough Council, The British Horse Society and Marston P3 Group & Ampthill Park (7 miles) Forest Centre & Millennium Country Park to Millbrook & Ampthill From the map board outside the At the crest of the hill there’s a good view woods and head along the path. Continue 1 Forest Centre walk right, past the cycle 3 of the Cardington sheds, old brick pits and up a steep hill (bench at the top). At the top hire shed, through the pergola and turn Millbrook test track to your right. Head head straight along the path; ignore the gate right down the bridleway, passing a picnic straight along the path towards a waymark post on the left and go through a wood. Head table and towards a waymark post, following in the distance. Descend into a conifer straight past a bin at the bottom of the hill the right hand grass track. Continue forward plantation and follow the path through some and through another wooded area. Keep past a field gate on the right and turn right at trees. Continue across an open field to a on left path then turn left, exiting the Park a waymark post and turn right again over a footpath junction. Ignore the footpath to the through a kissing gate onto Bedford Street. wooden foot bridge. Continue ahead, keeping right and head through a gap in the hedge From the kissing gate turn right downhill the hedgerow on your right, and past a bench with a waymark post to side. Continue across along Bedford Street towards Waitrose after approximately 100m. Continue along the the next field to a gap in the hedgerow and 5 and the Prince of Wales pub, heading into Millbrook Road. Cross the road and follow the surfaced track parallel with the Bedford to Ampthill town centre. At the mini footpath sign over a small field where you will Bletchley railway until you come to a wooden roundabout turn right uphill along Woburn emerge onto a gravel track. Take the second left kissing gate that leads out of the Park onto Street, passing the Queen’s Head pub on your across a bridge heading along a surfaced track Station Lane and Millbrook Train Station. left.Turn right along Chapel Lane following towards buildings at Park Farm Cottage. signs for the Timberland Trail. Continue along Cross the railway at Millbrook Station Follow a surfaced track past farm buildings and Chapel Lane and then into Park Hill and 2 and continue along Station Lane using the head across a small paddock to another gate in continue forwards entering Ampthill Park via a grass verge for 430m to a public footpath the far right hand corner. There’s a very gate along a narrow path. Continue, following signpost on your left. Please take care when prominent old oak tree on the right. walking along the road verge. At the signpost the Timberland Trail path that opens out walk down steps and through trees, over a Head uphill and through a gate into into woodland and a broad track. Continue wooden footbridge that crosses one of the 4 Ampthill Park (can be boggy if it has along the track and over an intersection of many ditches that flow into the Elstow Brook. rained). Continue forwards at a waymark post paths which leads to a park keeper’s cottage At the bridge and footpath junction follow the and take the left hand fork uphill following the (now a private dwelling) and open area. At a right hand path heading uphill over arable fields sandy path. Turn into right fork and continue waymark post take the left hand path along keeping the pylons on your left. uphill towards a gate. Ignore path into the the Greensand Ridge and past the Ampthill Explore the A wildlife haven Grange Estate More than 240 hectares (600 acres) Ba of floodplain forest will be created in The Grange Estate To Great the Park, a rare and valuable habitat for was bought by the Marston Vale wildlife. The Park will provide one of the Jones Derek © ExploreTrust in 2006. 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