Walk 10 - Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

This short circular walk on Portsdown Hill is around 2KM. It gives you great views of the city and of the countryside and is not too physically challenging.

Starting point is the field next to the Churchillian Pub called Children's Wood Field which has a car park at the top.

1. As you stand at the top of field looking north and enjoying the glorious views, there is a path located at the bottom right of the field. Walk past the Children's Wood on the right of the field to get to it and follow it round.

2. As you follow the path, it veers left so that you are walking in parallel with the bottom of the field. Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

3. At the end of this pathway is a fork. Take the right and you'll get to a kissing gate which leads on to the main road called Widley Walk - cross over the road.

Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

4. You will come to another fork – take the path to the right hand side. Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

Enter through the next gate which is just opposite of where you have exited and follow the path through woodland until your reach another gate at the entrance to a field.

5. Go through the gate and follow the path which is adjacent to a field.

Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

6. The path becomes wooded and more enclosed with some steps on the way. Continue until you come to the end of the copse onto a small open grassland area with fenced fields on your left.

7. Get those legs going for the walk uphill alongside the fields which belong to the Peter Ashley Activity Centre. You'll come to another gate. Go through and continue uphill for a few metres. Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

7. When you get to the top of this path, you can stop to enjoy great views of the city. Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

8. The walk continues along a path to the left as you look out to the city of . Follow this path until you see a wooded gate which you need to go through. This is quite overgrown and the gate is hidden slightly in the greenery Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

9. As you follow this path, you are walking to the side and behind Fort Widley and there are some places to stop to get a good view of it. Fort Widley was built between 1860 and 1870 and is currently home to an Equestrian Centre owned by the Peter Ashley Activity Centre.

Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

10; At the end of the pathway, you'll come to a fork. Take the left which leads you across a small field and back across Widley Walk which you crossed earlier.

Walk 10 - Widley Walk – Portsdown Hill PO75SE

11. Once you have crossed Widley Walk, you are back in the field in which you started.

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