Walking

There are many lovely walks available from the Cottage.  An OS map is provided in the guest book for your use while you stay at the cottage.  Please return it to the Guest Information folder when you leave so it is available for other guests use.

Hartley Wintney Walk Through Past and Present

Explore the pretty village of Hartley Wintney on this 5-mile walk. See the wide main street with the village green and duck pond at the southern end. Its cricket green is home to the oldest cricket club in Hampshire and is next to another picturesque duck pond. Oak trees were planted on the common in response to a call following the Battle of Trafalgar for more timber to build naval ships.

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Hartley Wintney – Walk through the past and present
Distance: 5 miles
Start: Centre of Village
Directions
From the centre of the village cross the pelican crossing and turn left. After 100m take the
first right into Hardings Lane, and turn left following the road clockwise around Causeway
Common and Cricket Green.
Turn left up Cricket Green Lane and cross the A323 at the crossing. Turn right then left into
Green Lane until you reach the footpath on the left leading past St John’s Church.
Continue along this path to a drive leading to Oakwood School. Cross over the drive passing
the pond on your right and continue to a kissing gate in the corner of the field on the
opposite side of the road.
Continue along the footpath that is parallel to the road until you reach St Mary’s Church.
Continue down the steps turning right through the gate to the Burial Ground, turn left
through the lychgate passing the entrance to St Mary’s Church.
Immediately turn right to the road. Cross the road to the footpath and follow the path
downhill to Mitchell Avenue. Cross the road and pass on through the woodland. The
footpath divides at a fork, take the left hand path which leads to Dilly Lane.
Turn right to the main road (A30), cross over and continue along Thackham’s Lane. Continue
to the woods at West Green Common. Turn right by West Green House, into West Green
Road. Continue right along the road. After a couple of bends, turn left up the drive taking
the second kissing gate on the right. Turn left at the stile. The 18th century Hazeley House is
visible on your left as you continue through the kissing gate onto Arrow Lane. Turn left at
the lane to the main road (B3011), cross over the road through the gap in the bund onto a
concrete track on Hazeley Heath. Continue for 100m then turn right along a broad track
through a plateau of grassland.
Turn left along a concrete track, to concrete structures (these were used for training WWII
troops on how to extract bogged tanks), follow the route down the slope onto the
heathland. Continue along the track until it branches, taking the left hand branch and across
two boardwalks. Just before you get to the telegraph pole turn right into the woodland by
the River Hart, continue over the bridge and on through the rough field.
Continue through the kissing gate, keeping the hedge on your right through a further two
kissing gates, over a small bridge that brings you to a paddock. Turn right along the river and
pass through a five-barred gate and on through a second small gate. Recross the river by the
bridge to emerge onto Springwell Lane opposite the amenity site. Turn left along the road
and the forest then right into a dead-end lane.
Pass the farmhouse of Hares Farm on the right and continue through the pedestrian pinch
point to enter the village by Hunt’s Common. Continue on to the main road (A30), and
return along the High Street and the start of the walk.

https://www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/countryside/walking/hartleywhitney