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BLUE ROUTE BLUE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #3

FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS WHO DON’T MIND A BIT OF A CHALLENGE

START/FINISH: View Point Car Park, TIME: 4-5 Hours DISTANCE: 8 miles C 77

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

Vehicle/PassengerLymington Ferry - Yarmouth Northwood ESPLANADE NEWTOWN A 1203 BAY POINT WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne Marks 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 33 Wootton COPSE Hamstead PARKHURST Common FOREST Newtown Parkhurst 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 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 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 BAY DOWN BRADING Freshwater 105 DOWN P Brading Down HAMSTEAD TRAIL 109 BEMBRIDGE TRAIL Field System 39 Totland AFTON 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 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 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’ , 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 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 34 Shanklin 85 Upper Hyde SHEPHERDS TRAIL SIBDEN HILL & H E R IT A G E C O A S T Worsley Monument BATTS COPSE

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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

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 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 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 ST CATHERINE’S POINT CHANNEL HERITAGE COAST

DIRECTIONS: A START: Starting from the Blackgang Viewpoint carpark, small waterfall. with its extensive views across the ‘’ to Freshwater E Arriving in the hamlet of Bierley, walk carefully along the side of the Bay. Cross the main road opposite the entrance to the car park, you road south for a few hundred metres. Take Foot Path 67 to Head Down. will see some steep steps leading up to St Catherine’s Hill (Foot Path Continue up the hill onto Foot Path 60. 36). Continue up the hill to St Catherine’s Oratory, locally known as the F At the top of the hill take Bridleway 53, Bury Lane to Niton. As you Pepperpot. reach Niton turn right past All Saints Church. There is a public toilet B Cross the Open Access Area to Bridleway 6. This will take you to the opposite, should the need arise. Continue on the pavement until you Hoy Monument. leave Niton village. C Take Bridleway 77 towards the Hermitage, this will take you down a G Cross the road and take Foot Path 33, up the hill. This will join fairly steep set of steps. Continue on this foot path through fields until Foot Path 34 to Blackgang. Continue along this path Until you reach you cross a small stream. Blackgang Viewpoint Car Park. FINISH D Then turn left (Footpath 84), this will take you around a small sandstone cliff with Wydcombe Manor at the base of the valley. This path makes a tight right hand turn (Footpath 86) and passes a pond and a

Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions.