Leave The Cartwheel pub at Whitsbury behind you on your left as you head south-east along the village road for a few yards before turning left to follow a fenced path steeply uphill to a latched gate. Cross the rising pasture beyond, making a bee-line for the church at the top of the hill ahead of you. The church, with its latticed win-dows and its whitewashed interior projecting animage of pleasing sim-plicity, is normally open to visitors. From outside the nave door follow a churchyard path right-handed around the rear of the building and out through a gate to follow left-handed a gravel track. Hedged on your left and flanked by racehorse paddocks on your right, this soon joins a metalled driveway which you follow, downhill to re-emerge on to the village road.

Follow this right-handed for a few yards, then turn right through a gate alongside which a footpath sign points the way past the buildings of Whitsbury Manor Stud. At the end of the buildings turn right to skirt the stud and follow a view-commanding track with a fence on your left and Whitsbury Castle's triple ramparts mantled in woodland to your right Continue ahead on a scenic descent. At the valley bottom, cross a broad, grassy drove and a stile on the other side of it to follow a footpath along the right-hand edge of arable land. You soon skirt the southern end of a small wood of yews and beeches. Follow a track straight on through this wood.

Carry on ahead uphill. This brings you to a stile beyond which your path joins a green lane at the south-ern extremity of a conifer plantation. Soon emerging on to a patch of open downland, you fol-low a grass track, which here bears right to climb to the edge of the grove of pews which masks the Mizmase. Carry on along the wood-land margin to a junction where you turn right to pass a notice-board marking the entry point for the path leading to the Mizmaze. This occupies a circular site with shallow chalk trenches and turfy path-ways forming a pattern which, from the outside, does not look unduly difficult to fathom and work out how to reach the centre. You are asked not to attempt this except as a mental exercise.

Walk out through the yews the way you came in and then bear right to follow a downhill path to rejoin the green lane. As you now continue along it, trees and shrubs flank your way uphill to a fork of tracks where you bear right. The well-used track you now follow winds through the old oaks and beeches of Breamore Wood.

A descent of several hundred yards precedes the point where you leave the wood to skirt an expanse of park-land and pass within yards of Breamore House before continuing downhill along what is now a metalled drive to where a side turning to your left leads to the Saxon church at Breamore. Spare time for at least a peep at this before returning to the main driveway.

Carry on to the next road crossing. Turn right here to follow a lane which turns left at a bend. Following the public road, you head past the houses of Upper Street. Eye-catching period dwellings are half-screened by mellow old walls as you approach the next lane turning. Here you turn right to follow what soon becomes a cottage-flanked cul-de-sac. Where dwellings soon end, so too does the metalled road, and you continue along a tree-lined track. Where the track forks left, keep straight on along what is now a path. This ends at a stile, which you cross to follow a footpath down-hill. At a valley bottom, which you soon reach, you pass through a gate to join an unmetalled farm road, which you follow for a few yards before turning left through a pedestrian gate to follow a rising footpath along arable farmland. Your footpath carries on into a wood on the high ground ahead.

Fairly soon reaching the wood's far side, carry on along the edge of it for several hundred yards. When you draw parallel with a semi-bungalow on your right, turn left to follow a railed path. This leads to a T-junction of fenced paths where you turn left for Whitsbury church, heading right-handed through the church-yard to follow another fenced path which winds steeply downhill to reach the village road. Follow this to retrieve your car from the pub car park.

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