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Main Instructor:

Chris Pole

Hosted By:

Chris Pole

Walk Description:

This walk starts from the Potting Shed cafe (formally the Hyde cafe) 

This walk has amazing New Forest views over high heathland.

We walk through the village of Hyde and turn onto Hyde common with Frogham on our left. At the end

of this flat stretch is a beautiful view over the area known as Ogden's.

We pass close to Abbott's well which is a perpetual spring. This was for centuries the main watering

place for travellers on the old road to Southampton.

Near here is the tiny pink thatched cotage which was lived in by a world famous herbalist and author

Juliette de Bairacli Levy.

Climbing over Windmill hill we have more stunning views this time towards Godshill.

Descending down Blissford Hill on a wide path we turn left and follow the stream into a beautiful wood.

(From here we walk beside the stream, Ditchend brook, over several fields/stiles to another section of

woodland shortly before reaching the hamlet of Stuckton.)

Unfortunately this route is impassable due to a tree across the path and a couple of broken stiles and

we will take a diversion June 2025.

Going through Stuckton and up hill on a narrow road we reach the cricket pitch and school at Hyde.

A short level walk back through the village gets us back to the cafe and a welcome cup of coffee. 

Dogs on short leads for ground nesting bird season. (This is a muddy walk in winter.) 

Please park at the back of the cafe, there is a large carpark. I will book a table and we can go in for

coffee afterwards. Toilets in the cafe.

There is a deli/gift shop/garden centre next to the cafe.

The walk is around 4 miles long.

Location Notes:

Please park at the back of the cafe. The Potting Shed serves delicious food. Option to go in after the walk for refreshments.