Hungerford Lane Countryside Dog Walk – Andover

Summary: A 3-mile circular countryside walk from Icknield Way, following Hungerford Lane through farmland and woodland, with an optional refreshment stop at the Hare & Hounds.

1. 1) Park as close as you can to Icknield Way. Walk to Hungerford Lane opposite and join the track, heading uphill as shown by the white arrow on the map.
2. 2) Continue on the track until you reach a farm building in an open square area.
3. 3) At the farm building, take the track on the right into the trees.
4. 4) Keep ahead, ignoring any side tracks or stiles on the left or right.
5. 5) At the next major left-hand track at the bottom of a dip, beside a footpath marker, turn left.
6. 6) Follow this track until you reach a small gap on the left with a footpath sign leading into the fields. Go through the gap.
7. 7) Walk diagonally across the field to the top right-hand corner.
8. 8) At the corner, keep right and walk a short distance to a crossroads of tracks.
9. 9) At the crossroads, take the right-hand track, heading downhill towards another crossroads.
10. 10) At this next crossroads, go straight across and continue on the main track, walking uphill to a fork.
11. 11) At the fork, ignore the track on the left and take the right-hand track, with the field you crossed earlier on your right.
12. 12) Continue straight to a T-junction. Turn left for the Hare & Hounds pub, or turn right and follow the track back down to your starting point.

Wood House Countryside Dog Walk – Enham

Summary: A relaxed countryside loop starting from Knightbridge Road, taking in fields, quiet lanes and village edges, with an optional café stop at Enham.

1. 1) Park on Knightbridge Rd. Turn back to the end of the main road and keep walking towards the houses on a private track on your right, heading into a field (as shown by the arrow on the map).
2. 2) Go through the gate and head straight across the field towards a turn-stile gate, passing a cottage on your right.
3. 3) Once through the gate, turn left onto the track and follow it down between fields to the end of the track.
4. 4) Go through and veer slightly left, continuing straight on.
5. 5) This brings you out onto a lane between village houses. Follow the lane down to the main road.
6. 6) At the fork, turn left, passing Woodhouse Farm on your left.
7. 7) Continue along the road, passing Malt Hose Lane on your left.
8. 8) Follow the road as it bears left heading towards Hurstbourne Tarrant, going uphill.
9. 9) At the top, ignore the footpath sign and stile on the left. Stay on this road until reaching Dunhills Lane. Turn left and follow until reaching Malt House Lane on your left.
10. 10) Turn left and follow the lane back to the main road.
11. 11) At the main road, turn right, then right again to return to the lane mentioned earlier.
12. 12) At the top of the lane by the stile, go through and follow the narrow track back to the gate near the bottom, returning to the field at the start of the walk.

Parnholt Wood Dog Walk – King Somborne

Summary: A longer countryside and woodland walk through Parnholt Woods, using forest tracks, bridleways and open fields before looping back via Pepper Wood Park. Best suited to dogs comfortable with longer distances.

1. 1) Park on the side of the lane opposite the fork leading up to Pepper Wood, with a footpath on the right (shown by the white circle and red arrow on the map).
2. 2) Take the right-hand turning onto the footpath, walking between fields up to the Pump House.
3. 3) Keep on this track, passing the Pump House on your right.
4. 4) Ignore the Parnholt sign and gate on your right and keep on the same track.
5. 5) On reaching a fork, keep straight on, following the track towards the trees.
6. 6) At the next fork, by a notice board on the left, keep following the track straight on.
7. 7) At the crossroads, turn left and continue following the main track.
8. 8) At the next crossroads, by a green gate on your right, keep walking straight on.
9. 9) At the Clarendon Way sign, turn left onto a dirt track heading back into the woods. This track becomes a narrow path and leads out of the woods down a steep decline, with fields on your right.
10. 10) On reaching the bottom by two metal gates, keep straight on, walking through the middle of the field towards a lane.
11. 11) Turn left by another Clarendon Way sign on the corner just before the lane, onto a track running between two fields.
12. 12) Head up, keeping on the same track as it bends around a corner towards the woods.
13. 13) At the crossroads, by a bridleway sign on the right, keep straight on.
14. 14) After a few hundred paces, look out for a fork with a marker on the right. Ignore this and continue straight on.
15. 15) Keep following this track all the way down to Pepper Wood.
16. 16) Continue straight down along the tarmac road, leading back down to where you started.

Ladies Walk Woodland Dog Walk – Andover

Summary: A short, easy 2-mile circular walk taking in open fields and well-used paths. Ideal for a quick local leg-stretch or calmer dogs who enjoy space without heavy footfall. Mostly flat with a mix of field edges, tracks, and an underpass.

Route Directions:

1. 1) Park on Hedge End Road. Walk through the gap between houses into the field.
2. 2) Walk diagonally across the field toward the top right-hand corner. Go through the gap and turn left up the steps.
3. 3) At the top turn left, ignore the gap on the right, and continue straight on.
4. 4) After passing back of the BW Hotel on the left, approach an iron bridge. Just before it, use the small gap in the hedgerow on the right.
5. 5) Go through the gap, keep left across the field to the next corner, then turn right keeping the hedgerow on your left. Walk through the next gap.
6. 6) Turn immediately left and follow the field edge downhill to the crossroads.
7. 7) At the crossroads, go straight across heading down to the underpass on the second track on the left.
8. 8) Go through the underpass bearing left toward a metal gate at the top.
9. 9) Pass around the gate and keep straight, following the edge of the solar field on your right toward the farm buildings.
10. 10) At the buildings, go through the metal gate onto the tarmac road.
11. 11) Turn right and follow the road, passing Cow Down Nursery on your left.
12. 12) Head up the hill, ignore the gap on the left, then turn right onto open fields following the field edge downhill.
13. 13) At the crossroads by the copse and solar field, turn right and follow the track back toward the metal gate by the road.
14. 14) At this corner, turn left and walk back down toward the metal gate near the underpass.
15. 15) Go through the underpass back into the fields. Walk straight up, ignoring the right-hand tracks.
16. 16) Continue straight to the corner of the field and turn left.
17. 17) Go through the gap back onto the Ladies Walk path. Cross over to the steps leading down to the play area and return to the start.

Solar Farm Countryside Dog Walk – Andover

1. 1) Park at the layby on the left on Micheldever Rd, just past the turning for Ashley Court Hotel.
2. 2) Head up the road towards the iron bridge, pass under and keep on the road.
3. 3) Ignore the left turning to the private road, then the second left onto the tarmac path. Go by the metal barrier, walk around it, and head to the small gap in the corner of the field on your right.
4. 4) Go through into the fields via the small gap.
5. 5) Walk through the middle of the fields and keep straight on the track.
6. 6) As it narrows and turns into a corner, take a sharp left to follow the track down to the A303 underpass.
7. 7) Go under and follow up to the metal gate. At the gate, keep left to follow the track with the solar field on your right.
8. 8) Walk around the bend and up to the top corner by another gate opposite the industrial units.
9. 9) Ignore the gate onto the road and keep following the track around the corner and straight on, with the solar field now on your right.
10. 10) At the top of the hill (near beehives and a copse on the right), at the crossroads turn left to walk along the field edge towards Cow Down Lane.
11. 11) At the road turn right and walk down until you reach a bridleway crossing. Turn right here onto the bridleway.
12. 12) Follow this track all the way to the underpass. Go through and continue walking straight ahead.
13. 13) At the end of the track take a sharp right onto Ladies Walk.
14. 14) At the fork by the gate, leave the path and take the right lane heading up to the farm.
15. 15) Turn right through the gap onto a field, keeping to the left-hand edge. Follow it around, passing the farm yard on your left.
16. 16) At the end of the track go through into the next field, walking straight across the middle to the next field.
17. 17) At the corner, turn first right to follow the field down, keeping the hedgerow on your left.
18. 18) Take the next left through the gap and walk straight on to the next corner.
19. 19) At the next corner turn left and walk down the left-hand edge to the small gap in the corner at the bottom.
20. 20) Go through the gap back onto Ladies Walk by the iron bridge.
21. 21) Keeping the bridge on your right, walk straight ahead through the gate to the path leading down, passing Hotel on your left.
22. 22) Half way along, there’s a gap on your right that takes you back to where you parked your car.

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