This walk is approximately 1 mile (One and a half kilometres). Allow about three quarters of an hour. It is unlikely to be too muddy even after prolonged wet weather.

. . . . Go westwards along The Street past the Holly Tree public house to Walberton village green. Along the way on the left is the Jubilee Building (1) which was built by the Booker family in 1887. On the right, just after Tye Lane, is 17th century Pear Tree Cottage with a well in the front garden. This cottage was once 3 dwellings. Just round the next bend, on the left, is the village pound (2) where stray sheep, cattle, pigs, and goats were impounded.

. . . .At the Green bear right up West Walberton Lane, circling the Green via the gaps in the fence and past the pond. Walberton Green is not ancient and only legally became the village green in 1978. Turn up Burch Grove (3) and then turn left over a low wall at the bend in the road into a path between garden fences.

. . . .Where the path emerges from between the gardens go straight across this green to Pound Road and Dairy Lane. Turn right and then bear left across the front of Pigeon House Farm through the kissing gate (4). Go half right across the first field to a stile and continue across second field to a wooden kissing gate. Turn sharp left to an iron kissing gate in the churchyard hedge. Follow the churchyard path past the church (see panel below) and through the lych-gate to Church Lane. Then cross The Street to the Village Hall car park.

. . . .Walberton Church was mentioned in the Domesday Book. Just inside the church is a stone tablet which lists all the incumbents since 1086 AD. The main nave is of pre-Conquest date but the walls were pierced with 12th century arches. The unusual tub font is probably Norman. It was lost for a time and was rediscovered in use as a farm trough.

. . . .On the east side a window dedicated to Lord Woolton, the minister of food during the second world war, shows unemployment in Liverpool in the 1930's a nd the bombing during the war.

. . . .In the churchyard the headstone of Charles Cook (5), who died on 20th March 1767, is of particular interest and shows the tree that fell on him together with angels with trumpets, a skeleton with arrow, and Father Time.

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