Footpath Number 10
End: Fox Drive, Eversley Parish Boundary
Distance: 1.7 Miles
Map: 2 – Central
This path, on paper, looks like it leads nowhere, ending in the middle of Warren Heath. To the initiated though this is a great path into the heart of Bramshill Forest and although it officially ends at the Parish boundary, it connects to paths that can take you right into the centre of Hartley Wintney.
Starting at St Mary’s Church, follow the quiet road past the Church and then the Old Rectory, after a third of a mile you will see Arletts Cottage straight ahead of you marked by 2 distinctive white wrought iron gates and the end of the road.
The footpath turns to the left at these gates up through a small woody copse with Arletts Bungalow to your right. This path can get quite muddy. Keep to the right-hand side of the path as the woods turn into a hedgerow of Rhododendron. The path climbs quite sharply here for a short while and can often be wet.
At the top of the climb you turn right onto a much wider and well gravelled path. Follow this path for a few hundred yards until you reach a fork. The yellow sign takes you down the left hand fork on a path bordered by gorse and heather. You will eventually come to a cross roads with the main “Welsh Drive” of Footpath 11.
Keep straight ahead and you will see the well gravelled wide path now clearly signed “Fox Ride”. With horse jumps on your right the path continues for a few hundred yards until the crossing with Sir Richards Ride. Again the yellow sign posts guide you straight over to continue on Fox Ride. The path meanders right then left downhill and then a short uphill to yet another crossroads.
This is the extent of the Eversley Parish boundary and the end of this footpath, but you can see the path continues and there are routes that will take you to Springwell Lane at Hartfordbridge and from there onward to Hartley Wintney.
