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Start: Station Road, East Tisted parking available opposite the church. what3words///unhappily.unsightly.droplet. Refreshments are available Thu-Sat at Village Coffee, a pop up cafe further up Station Road in the former Bowtells Farm Shop car park. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581505467424
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From the parking area opposite the church or at Village Coffee car park (check opening hours beforehand) head downhill towards the A32 (main road from Alton to West Meon). Cross this busy road carefully and head through the main gates into Rotherfield Park. There is an open pedestrian access gate at the side. Follow the driveway up to the top of the hill. as the drive way turns to the left follow the footpath sign and go straight ahead into the woods. Ignore the righthand path into the woods. As you head up the hill you will notice Rotherfield Park high on the hill on your left. This is a Victorian Gothic House built around 1820, with the towers having been added in the 1880, with earlier parts of the house remaining. It has been in the same family (The Scotts) since 1808.
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You are now in Plash Woods. Exit the woods over the open stile and keep walking around the edge of the fields with Plash Woods on your right. Cross over another stile and again keep following the path circuiting the edge of the woods on your right. Ignore paths off to the right into the woods and to the left. Eventually you'll come to a wide gateway on to a bridleway. Turn right and head down the bridleway with Plash Woods continuing on your right.
You'll have lovely views ahead and as you go down the hill to the next t-junction.
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At the end of the bridleway turn left and head down to the A32 with both Pelham Place and Gaze Burvill Garden Furniture workshop on your left side. Cross over the busy A32 with great care and follow the footpath straight ahead up through the field to the copse of trees.
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On reaching the steps take a look at the views behind you to Pelham Place and Rotherfield Park. At the top the steps immediately turn right. You are now on the embankment of the former Meon Valley Railway. Follow the path for a short way before descending briefly to cross what would have been the old railway track.
Follow the path up and around before heading through the woods (150m). You emerge into a field. Follow the path ahead and go through the next short copse emerging on to another field. Continue to the end where you will have reached Shotters Lane.
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At Shotters Lane go straight ahead taking the path to the left of the hedge (see the fingerpost in the hedge). After a short distance cross the path in front of a converted barn and enter a field and head through a gate. Follow the path crossing through a couple of gates until you reach houses on the edge of Newton Valence.
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Pass through a gate and down some steps on to the road running through Newton Valence. Walk along past some houses looking for a fingerpost on the right hand side of the road. This is opposite the Old Post Office Cottage. Take this footpath down the track, Enter the field (small vineyard on your right) and head down passing a metal gate and then a wooden gate through two more fields and a small wooded area. The paths follow the fences and hedges on your left handside. You will eventually come out on to a road.
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Turn right and head down the road for 700m. Take the first track left (opposite the entrance to Shotters Lane). Walk past the barn and turn left into the field at the fingerpost. You want to head to the diagonal corner. The footpath takes you to it by following the path uphill then turning left alongside a sizeable and in places newly planted hedgerow. Occasionally the field is part fenced off for cattle so work your way around the temporary fencing. Cross over the stile and then a second one into the next field.
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Head straight ahead, you will soon see a fingerpost in the distance to walk towards. This brings you to a gate and a stile. Cross over the road and follow the path angled to the right following the hedge line, ignoring a path to the left. This leads to a wooden access point on to a track. Turn right and head along it towards East Tisted. You come to an old railway bridge and what was the old railway station of East Tisted, now converted to a house with an old railway carriage in the garden.
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The track turns into a lane. Go past the old railway station and head to the junction by the village pond. Turn left and this road will take you past Village Coffee (when open) and down to the church and the starting point. There are pubs nearby in Farringdon and Selborne.
