Broadchalke DISTANCE: 10 miles MAP: OS 184, Salisbury & The Plain START: In Broad Chalke village, turn down the road opposite the Queen's Head inn. Park in the church and village hall car park a couple of hundred yards along the road on the right. The car park is also used as the village recycling centre. A full page road map showing the start point is available here.   THE WALK: Leave the car park and turn right along the road. As the road swings to the right at the first corner, continue straight on along the lane ahead. This lane then ends at a T-junction. At this point, cross the road and continue along the bridle way opposite. After about a mile or so along the bridle way, you should see a sign on the right by a gateway marked 'Middleton Down Nature Reserve'. Go through the gate here and then follow a somewhat indistinct footpath that continues in the same direction parallel to the bridle way.   Pass through two more gates across a track. Immediately after crossing through the second of these two gates, turn right and climb the steep hill next to the fence on the right. Near the top of the hill, turn left and continue to follow the fence line until you come to a stile slightly hidden behind some tall gorse bushes. Climb the stile, and turn left still following the fence line. At the end of the field, turn right for a short distance, pass through the gateway and continue along the crest of the valley with the fence now on your right and the steep valley side to your left. Turn left at the head of the valley opposite a wooden horse jump set in the fence to aim for the gateway at the top of the field. Pass through the gate, turn left and follow the track until you come to the wide track of the Ox Drove.   Turn left along the Ox Drove until you reach a point where the track you were on near the start of the walk meets the Ox Drove from the left. Turn right here down a narrower pathway which descends gently through a hedge line to reach Knighton Wood. At the T-junction at the wood's edge, turn left to follow the track as it winds through trees along the edge of the wood. After half a mile or so you will reach a lane. Turn left and walk the short way up the lane to take the first right-hand track along the Ox Drove again.   Stay on the track for about a mile until you emerge amongst the buildings of Faulstone Down Farm. Turn left through an old iron gate and follow the track past some barns to emerge into fields at the back of the farm. Your route now follows the right-hand fence line in a north-north-east direction as it goes down and up a sharp valley and eventually sweeps gently left to gradually descend to meet a track at a T-junction in a small wooded area. Turn right along this track and follow it downhill to a farm at Faulston. As the track turns sharp right, continue straight on through the farm and follow the track ahead. Climb a stile into a field and bear right to head for a stile in the fence line just opposite Faulston Dovecot.   Climb this stile into the lane, turn left and then almost immediately look out for a narrow footpath on the left. The path soon passes through a field to climb another stile. In the next field, just after a water trough, pass through a gate on the right to turn left and walk past a newly constructed barn. Continue past the barn and along the lane until you reach the Old Post Office. Turn left and then right along the lane signposted to Croucheston Mill. The footpath passes to the left of the Mill to emerge into fields. Follow the right-hand edge of the fields until the path bears left when it reaches a cottage at a field corner. Go round the cottage to come out in a road.   Turn left along the road and then take the footpath on the right which passes by converted buildings and reaches the River Ebble at a bridge. Do not cross the bridge, but instead turn left across the stile to continue along the fields with the river on your right. Emerge onto a metalled road and turn left and then right after 50 yards to take the footpath between trees. The next stile which emerges into a field was not particularly suitable for a dog as it consisted of a plastic piece of piping wrapped around barbed wire, so please be careful at this point. The path follows the right-hand side of the next field to cross a stile by a house in the far right corner. A second stile takes you down steps at the right-hand side of the house's garden to emerge onto the road opposite Broad Chalke's church and our starting point. Home / Salisbury & Wessex / New Forest / Guestbook / Links / Your page / Other Interests