🥾 Walking route
Battle of Cheriton, Hinton Ampner
Hampshire
- 📏 5.1 km · 3.1 mi
- ⛰ +140 m
- ⏱ 1 hr 15 min
- 🐕 On lead
Walk stats
- Distance5.1 km · 3.1 mi
- Elevation+140 m
- Duration1 hr 15 min
- DifficultyEasy
- Route typeLinear
- TerrainField paths, farm tracks and quiet lanes over gentle chalk downland
- Best seasonLate spring to early autumn
- DogsDog friendly on leads near livestock
About this walk
This gentle linear walk in the rolling Hampshire countryside near Hinton Ampner traces ground associated with the Battle of Cheriton, one of the significant engagements of the English Civil War. Starting from The Hinton Arms, the route heads out across quiet farmland and along field-edge paths, with wide views over the chalk downs that mark the upper reaches of the Itchen valley.
Along the way you pass a tranquil Lily Pond before threading between patches of woodland including Cowdown Copse, Dark Copse and Scrubb's Copse. The source of the River Itchen rises nearby, and interpretation of the 1644 battlefield sits within this same broad landscape of hedgerows, copses and gentle ridges.
The walk finishes in the village of Bramdean, an easy 5.1 km stroll with modest ascent of around 140 metres. At roughly an hour and a quarter it suits a relaxed half-day out, ideally rounded off with a drink back at the start or refreshment in Bramdean itself.
Route map
Route line drawn from OpenStreetMap footpath data. Numbered markers are waypoints on the route; amber star markers are points of interest a short detour away.
Waypoints along the route
3 waypoints along the way
- 1
The Hinton Arms
- 2
Lily Pond
- 3
Finish: Bramdean
- Finish
The end of the route.
Worth a short detour
Points of interest just off the route, look for the amber markers on the map.
Battle of Cheriton
~366 m off the route
Cowdown Copse
~187 m off the route
Dark Copse
~369 m off the route
Source of the River Itchen
~460 m off the route
Scrubb's Copse
~468 m off the route
Route & waypoint data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).