Sunday - 10 miles Ellisfield/Farleigh Wallop/ Herriard Common

Starting on Spain Lane, we walk through Preston Oak Hills and take  a permissive path through High Wood to Ellisfield.  After stopping in Bedlam Plantation for a coffee break we continue to Farleigh Wallop past ripening barley fields edged with Lacy Phacelia. From there we take a wooded track towards Cliddesden with views across Basingstoke and beyond. A dismantled railway track then leads us to more woodland, where we will stop for a picnic lunch and cross open fields before returning to the start via Herriard Common. The route includes walking on some quiet country lanes. There is one stile and a short steepish incline and a short steepish descent.