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Six Walks About Walberton |
Walk No 2
This walk is approximately 0ne and three quarters of a mile (Two and three quarters kilometres).
Allow about an hour. It is unlikely to be too muddy even after wet weather.
. . . . Walk eastwards along The Street to Yapton Lane. Note Smugglers Cottage
on the left and the brewery complex (Brewery Cottage, The Malthouse, etc.)
on the right. Cross Yapton Lane, go through the kissing gate and along the
path past the lone tree in the field (the view up the valley from here to
the top of the Downs is very pleasant) to the kissing gate at the edge of
the golf course. Continue down the now gravelled path and across the bridge
over Binsted Rife to the end of the gravel. Turn half right and walk straight
up the hill then alongside the churchyard wall to the kissing gate leading
into Binsted Lane West (1). Some notes on Binsted church can be found in
walk No 3.
. . . .Turn left along the lane past the farm and the Black Horse public house.
Turn into Hedge'rs Hill which drops away from Binsted Lane to the left (2).
Cross the Binsted Rife and bear left uphill past Beam Ends tea room, see left,
to Yapton Lane. Bear left along Yapton Lane past the entrance to the Hilton
Hotel Golf Course to Avisford Park Road (3) which goes off to the right.
Turn down Avisford Park Road. The view to the right over the field and
beyond is attractive. The ensuing footpath will bring you back to the
Village Hall car park.
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Binsted Rife
. . . .A hundred and fifty or so years ago Binsted Rife was known as the River Avis.
It is shown with this name on the earliest maps. Before canals or railways were
built or roads improved this river was tidal up to Binsted and boats could have
came to Binsted to unload and load.
. . . .The A27 crossed the river using Avis Ford and the east bank was then
very steep so that traffic climbed up Avisford hill. This name is used on the
earliest Ordnance Survey maps of the area.
. . . .The bridge across the river on the path running from Blacksmith's Corner
to Binsted Church was known as Kennimore Bridge in 1727.
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