🥾 Walking route
Walk in Stanley Spencer's Footsteps around Burghclere, Sandham
Hampshire
- 📏 3.3 km · 2.1 mi
- ⛰ +52 m
- ⏱ 45 min
- 🐕 On lead
Walk stats
- Distance3.3 km · 2.1 mi
- Elevation+52 m
- Duration45 min
- DifficultyEasy
- Route typeLinear
- TerrainField paths, quiet lanes, gentle undulations
- Best seasonSpring to autumn
- DogsDog friendly on leads near livestock
About this walk
This short linear walk of just over two miles traces a gentle path through the quiet Hampshire countryside around Burghclere, a village long associated with the artist Stanley Spencer. With only around 52 metres of ascent spread across 45 minutes of walking, it is an easy outing suited to almost anyone with a spare afternoon.
The route passes the Church of the Ascension in Burghclere and rolls on through a landscape of hedgerows and small woodland pockets, with Hastridge Copse and Gosling's Copse lying close by. Field-edge paths and quiet lanes give a real sense of the rural setting that shaped Spencer's memorial paintings, and there are open views across the fields as you go.
The walk ends near the Carpenters Arms, a welcome spot to pause at the finish. As a linear route, it works well combined with a return along the same path, or planned around local transport for a one-way stroll.
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
Church of the Ascension
- 2
Burghclere
- 3
Carpenters Arms
Worth a short detour
Points of interest just off the route, look for the amber markers on the map.
Hastridge Copse
~430 m off the route
Gosling's Copse
~449 m off the route
Route & waypoint data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).