| Limited road-side parking is available on the second slip road into Exton village, traveling from the Corhampton direction on the A32, adjacent to where the River Meon passes under the A32. | |
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From the parking area, head down towards
Exton Village, passing Exton Church on the right with the River Meon on
the left. Continue on the road as it turns right, avoiding the road
off to the left. As the road sweeps left at the back of the village,
take the footpath right between two gardens (fingerpost).
(photo: Beacon Hill ahead to the north of Exton) |
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Cross the stile at the top corner of
the field, then right across the path through a field to a stile leading
onto a farm track. Cross over the track and continue to follow the
path through the fields. Cross over stiles to pass through a
narrow wooded area, then follow the path up hill with Beacon Hill on the
right. Leave the field via a stile to join a metaled road.
Continue on the road for a few hundred yards until the next finger post
on the right. Join the footpath then follow
the path to the parking area at the entrance to Beacon Hill.
(photo: Clare and Sarah almost at the top of the only hill on the walk) |
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From the parking area, join the road and
head north to the first right-hand corner. At this point, join the track/path the
goes off left to Lomer Farm. Continue on the path into Lomer Farm
yard.
Follow the road to the right, then join the track that heads south.
(The Wayfarer's Walk)
(photo: Looking south down the valley from the road around to Beacon Hill) |
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Follow the track down to the left corner, go left
then soon after right onto a path on the left side of a field. Cross
the stile at the far end, then head across open ground to where a tracks
goes up and right alongside the woods.
(photo: Looking down to Lomer Farm on the South Downs Way) |
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Continue alongside the woods,
then across a small field and through another small wood. The path
continues over another field. (photo: Heading along the Wayfarer's Walk passing close to Preshaw Down ) |
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(photo: View back north in the direction of Lomer Farm/Beacon Hill) |
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At the end, pass through a stile, down left
then right towards a tennis court of a rather nice country house. Near the tennis court, turn left
into a wood. The path now winds through the wood outside the grounds
of a the house. Near the end of the lake in the grounds of the
house, turn right, down for a short distance, then left.
(photo: Snack break near Preshaw Down) |
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Pass through a gate/stile into a large field and
follow the path down the centre of the field towards St Clair's Farm. (photo: Looking back up Preshaw Down) |
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The path meets a farm track, turn left into a field
keeping the edge on the
left. Follow the path up to where a country lane is reached.
Cross the lane and join the path going down into Corhampton Forest.
A wide track leads east through the
forest, dropping after a while into a clearing, then rising to near the
end of the forest.
(photo: Looking back along the path from near St Clair's Farm) |
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Take the footpath left just before
the end of the wood, as it winds right to exit into a field.
Follow the path on the left of the field. Halfway down the field,
the path passes through into the field on the left then continues along
the same hedge to join another country lane. Cross the lane and
follow the wide track as it descends into a valley.
(photo: Valley through to Exton passing the paddocks of Exton Stud) |
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The track passes Exton Stud at the end of the valley and joins a metaled road. Follow the road past the first left turn, around a left-hand bend to a 'T' junction. Turn right, then take the second left into Exton village high street. (The Shoe public house is worth a visit!) (photo: Bit of water after the recent rain as the girls near the end of the track) |
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Continue past The Shoe
to join the road near Exton Church, the road used at the start.
Turn right and follow the road for a short distance back to the car
park.
(photo: Looking over to the southern end of Exton from near Exton Stud) |
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