Wayfarers Walk

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Wayfarers Walk
Wayfarers Walk waymarker
Wayfarers Walk waymarker
Length 70 miles (113 km)
Location England
Trailheads Walbury Hill in West Berkshire
Emsworth in Hampshire
Use Hiking
Season All year

The Wayfarers Walk is a long distance footpath in England from Walbury Hill, Berkshire to Emsworth, Hampshire.

The footpath can be walked in either direction. The north-west end is at the car park on top of Walbury Hill to near Inkpen Beacon and the south-east end is Emsworth town square.

The footpath approximates an ancient route that might have been used by drovers taking cattle for export. It passes through the towns of New Alresford, Droxford, Hambledon, Havant and Emsworth and the villages of North Oakley, Deane, Dummer, Brown Candover, Abbotstone, Cheriton, Hinton Ampner, Kilmeston, Soberton, and Denmead. The footpath also passes close to Watership Down, Hampshire.

The footpath is waymarked by metal and plastic disks found attached to wooden and metal posts, trees and street furniture. It has also spawned several circular routes that use sections of the main footpath. These are also waymarked.

This route is shown as a series of green diamonds on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps and as a series of red diamonds on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 maps.

Walbury Hill is also the start of the Test Way.

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These maps show the footpath in relation to nearby major roads. Maps are not on the same scale.

Walbury to North Oakley
Walbury to North Oakley
North Oakley to Brown Candover
North Oakley to Brown Candover
Brown Candover to Cheriton
Brown Candover to Cheriton
Cheriton to Hambledon
Cheriton to Hambledon
Hambledon to Emsworth
Hambledon to Emsworth


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