RECOMMENDED LOCAL WALK

Approximate Distance: 3.5 miles

A most enjoyable walk in the Stour Valley, It is easy going across farm land, along the banks of the Stour and through woods.

Leave the Angel Inn, Longham (near Ferndown) and go straight across the road into Angel Lane turning left when you meet the gravel track.

Walk past the house and field and turn right. As you approach the barn continue ahead along the path to the wooden crossing point then through the metal gate opposite into the field and turn left.

Keeping close to the hedge walk round to the wooden bridge, cross into the field and turn left. Follow path beside the stream, into the trees and out into Ham Lane. Carefully cross over onto the track opposite walking down until you reach the stile in the hedge on the left. Go over into the field and follow the well trodden path to the gate opposite and then across the stile.

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE,
34 Station Road, Lower Parkstone,
Poole, Dorset, BH14 8UD

Telephone: 01202 735639

Keep straight ahead through the gap in the hedge making for the crossing point in the left hand corner. Walk straight ahead and then bear right over the stile in the hedge. Go over onto the track and turn left then left again when you reach the main road.

Cross opposite the Bridge House Hotel and take the footpath between the large house and the offices signed, to Dudsbury. The path runs beside a river bank leading to a wooden bridge. Cross over and climb the steep bank to the stile in the hedge at the top. Follow the path round to the left, out onto the drive and turn left.

Upon reaching the road cross over and turn left. Keep walking past a number of houses until you reach a stile beside a large oak tree. Follow the path up into the woods and bear left looking for the yellow markers. Try and keep to the main path ignoring others then bear left at the top. Keep straight ahead past some larger trees until the path bears right and enters a clearing, then turn left and walk beside the trees, round until you reach an opening into the woods. Follow the twisting path through the trees, past a field on the right and through a gate onto a gravel track. Turn right then right again at the main road back to the Angel Inn.