Walking with the Worsleys BLUE ROUTE BLUE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Walk #1 FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS WHO DON’T MIND A BIT OF A CHALLENGE START/FINISH: GODSHILL CAR PARK, GODSHILL PO38 3JD TIME: 3-4 Hours DISTANCE: 6 miles C B A H 62 D 56 58 44 49 Portsmouth To Southampton Southsea Map: © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap © Mapbox, © Map: 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 G 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 Marks WOOTTON CREEKFishbourne A 3 0 2 0 45 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 P SMALLBROOK 0 4 3 3 B 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 A 3 0 5 4Norton 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 Newbridge BRADING FORELAND 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 NEEDLES D O W N 213 ALVERSTONE MEAD, 51 TENNYSON TRAIL 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 9B3 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 47 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 F ST CATHERINE’S POINT CHANNEL HERITAGE COAST 50 E 48 DIRECTIONS: A START: Start your journey from Godshill, a picturesque village, E When you meet a cross roads of Bridleways turn left onto Bridleway which is chock full of treats. Take care walking through Godshill, the 50 and then join Byway 48 which will bring you onto Rew Lane. Turn Left roads are narrow and the pavement disappears at points along the busy and join Foot Path 47 at Span Lodge. main road. F Join Foot Path 45 just past Appuldurcombe House. Before its B The first stop is All Saints’ Church famous for a 15th Century fresco partial destruction by a wartime explosion the house was considered a painting of Christ on the cross. Walk north along the High Street until masterpiece of English Baroque architecture. It is still an astonishingly you meet Church Hollow. Cross the road and take Foot Path 62, to the beautiful building set in ‘Capability’ Brown’s only Isle of Wight landscape. Church. This gorgeous house played centre stage in one of the most salacious C Then take Church Hill south until you reach Bridleway 56 to Sainham scandals of the Georgian Period. Farm. The bridleway will join Foot Path 58. G Foot Path 45 will join Bridleway 44 at the Freemantle Gate. Follow D Follow Foot Path 58 until you meet a cross roads then take a right Bridleway 44 all the way back to Godshill. turn onto Foot Path 49. When you meet a fork in the path take the left H You will come out on the Shanklin Road, turn left and from here it is option onto Bridleway 51, which will take you passed a Radio Station. only a short walk back to the Start. FINISH Where possible, public footpath and bridleway reference numbers have been included in the directions..