Ashurst Circular
New Forest Walk
Nat Park - New Forest
County/Area - Hampshire
Author - Dave Ford
Length - 3.3 miles / 5.4 km Ascent - 200 feet / 61 metres
Time - 1 hours 50 minutes Grade - easy
Maps
Ordnance Survey Explorer OL22 | Sheet Map | 1:25k | BUY |
Anquet OS Explorer OL22 | Digital Map | 1:25k | BUY |
Walk Route Description
Join me and my dog, Logan (the Whippet), as we continue our series of walks in the New Forest. In this episode we explore the area around Ashurst. Along the way we come across the site of an Elizabethan Saltpetre House, a Roman Road, an unusual tree and even some free range pigs!
Route details: Leave car park close to Happy Cheese pub & follow road behind pub to a gate. Continue on gravel track with a lawn on right. Pass Keeper's Cottage on right. Turn right through gate & immediately go left along path. After short distance, as main track goes half right, take very narrow path on left alongside fence line. As fence line turns right, turn even sharper right o follow path beside block of conifers. Reach Y junction & turn left beside deer fence then at next Y junction, take left fork. Go straight ahead at cross roads of track & go downhill. Turn right at T junction and follow gravel cycle track first downhill then slightly uphill. Pass a turn to the right & continue on cycle track as it bears left, downhill. Miss narrow path on right and eventually at a T junction, turn left (ignore grassy track straight ahead). Follow path to right at a Y junction. Turn right at next T junction where path meets a cycle track. Immediately go through gate and follow track left over railway bridge. Come to a road & turn right. Follow road downhill (open heathland on left) & turn right after Saltpetre site (wooded area). Follow woodland edge to open grassland & holiday campsite. Skirt campsite, cross tarmac road & head for bus shelter on A35. Turn right along A35 , pass The new Forest Pub, go over railway bridge & back to car park.
Other walks nearby
Walk 3615 | Ashurst (Busketts) Circular | easy | 3.4 miles |
Walk 1612 | Lyndhurst Circular | easy/mod | 7.5 miles |
Walk 3554 | Lyndhurst Circular (short) | easy | 2.9 miles |
Walk 3545 | Matley Wood from Beaulieu Road | easy | 4.3 miles |
Walk 3551 | Denny Lodge from Beaulieu Road | easy | 5.7 miles |
Walk 3539 | Holmhill Inclosure from Millyford Bridge | easy | 2.5 miles |
Walk 3543 | Brockenhurst Circular | easy | 4.8 miles |
Walk 3583 | Brockenhurst, Black Knowl & Ober Water | easy | 5.0 miles |
Walk 3542 | RAF Beaulieu near East Boldre | easy | 5.1 miles |
Walk 3685 | RAF Beaulieu Walk from Hawkhill Inclosure | easy | 3.6 miles |
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