Aldbourne (20.66 miles 33.06 km ) Print

ALDBx03 Start / Finish
Leave Maddle Farm and turn right onto the byway, and bear left on the bridleway.



ALDBw01 Waypoint 1
Bridleway
At the junction of tracks take the left and go up Weathercock Hill and at the top keep the fence to your left to a track down to the road.


ALDBw02 Waypoint 2
Bridleway
At the B4000 cross straight over and take the byway with no gates half left.


ALDBw03 Waypoint 3
Byways
At the junction of Byways, turn right.


ALDBw04 Waypoint 4
Road
Continue straight ahead on the road and cross the M4 motorway.


ALDBw05 Waypoint 5
Bridleway
Immediately turn left downhill to a gate into a field with a faded bridleway sign. There is often a crop in with no bridleway through it here. Follow the fence beside the motorway verge until the field just begins to drop downhill, at that point turn right to a bridle gate in the far fence line-this is at the tip of the V of the hollow of the field. If this track has a crop with no path through it, continue on the road to the T junction and turn left to reach the track on your right.


ALDBw06 Waypoint 6
Bridleway
Follow this downhill, crossing a minor road and then behind houses to the village green in Aldbourne where you will find a pub.


ALDBw07 Waypoint 7
Road
To return to the route from the Pub, retrace your steps and a few yards uphill from the green leave the road you came on and turn left on a bridleway uphill.


ALDBw08 Waypoint 8
Bridleway
This is a green lane at first but after a gate it passes a group of round barrows and follows the field edge.


ALDBw09 Waypoint 9
Byway
At the fence line at the far end of this of this vast field turn right onto another byway.


ALDBw10 Waypoint 10
Bridleway
Cross over the minor road onto the bridlway.


ALDBw11 Waypoint 11
Bridleway
your route goes along the roadside edge of the fence line to join the road higher up.


ALDBw12 Waypoint 12
Road
Turn right on the road and then left to cross the M4 motorway and turn immediately left off the road.


ALDBw13 Waypoint 13
Bridleway
Follow the signed signed track round to the far side of the gallop. This bridleway follows the line of the gallop to join the Ridgeway at Foxhill.


ALDBw14 Waypoint 14
Bridleway
Turn right and where the next bridleway crosses the Ridgeway turn right.


ALDBw15 Waypoint 15
Bridleway
Follow this bridleway down hill, passing Downs Barn on the right and through a dry valley back to the road.


ALDBw16 Waypoint 16
Road
Turn left on the road and retrace your steps to Maddle Farm.