A walk by the Gribble Inn and other United Kingdom Sports Travel Tips

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Here's a walk you can do to work up your appetite:
Approx. distance of walk: 4 miles. OS Map No. 197 SU 902/050
There are few public footpaths in the area surrounding the pub. For this reason it does mean a lot of the walk is along the highway, and whilst most of the lanes are very quiet and peaceful care should be taken for the first half mile; although a minor road it can sometimes be busy. The section across the farm land can be rather overgrown in July and it can take more time than usual to locate the path. Other than that it is an easy, mostly dry level walk.

Equipment: 1. Turn left from the inn back to the road junction and left again. After about half a mile take the turning on the right, cross the bridge and turn left at the bottom of the hill towards the level crossing at Woodhorn. Carefully cross the track and just past the entrance to the swelling, go over the stile in the hedge on the right, cross to the farm gate, enter the field and keep straight ahead walking close to the hedge on the right.
2. Go over the stile in the far corner and still keeping close to the hedge, make your way across the field until you reach the ditch on the far side and then bear left. Keep close to the ditch for a couple of hundred yards looking for a crossing point, it can become very overgrown in summer. Cross into the field and bear left making your way over to the corner where a plank bridge allows easy access to the field ahead.
3. Walk beside the boundary, past the derelict house on the left and straight ahead into the field in the direction of the finger post. Follow the left-hand boundary until you reach a farm track through a gap in the corner. Cross over and keep straight ahead down the narrow field to the plank bridge, climb the stile and bear left, up and across the field to the stile beside the gate, out into the lane and turn right.
4. After a short distance turn left at the crossroads on the road to Aldingbourne. Walk through the village forking left at the junction on to the disused airfield. Bear right in the direction of the finger post and then left following the runway. I was last here in 1991 and noticed some areas of concrete were being lifted but have no doubt that the present route of the path will remain and be well signed. Cross another runway and bear left at the next, over to the stile beside the gate, out into the lane and turn right. Keep to the lane for about a mile ignoring the side turnings until the lane eventually bears left back to the pub.

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