Petersfield to Liphook - Hampshire's delights

Highlights:

• great views,
• forests coming into bloom,
• bluebells, spring flowers,
• forlorn paths,
• weird and wonderful moreland on Longmore Common,
• Sussex Border Path,
• budding rhododendrons,
• country pubs.

We'll start our walk in Petersfield and head north to follow part of the 34 km (21 mile) Hangers Way - a long distance path less travelled within an area of outstanding natural beauty.

The countryside around here is unspoilt and forlorn, and we'll meet only a few locals out for a walk with their dogs. In our first hour, we will be rewarded with fantastic views from Shoulder of Mutton Hill as we continue through forested slopes and over open fields towards Liss and then onto Liphook via a nice lunchtime pub stop (for drinks only).

After Liss, we will walk down Shipwrights Way to Longmore and Weavers Down, an army managed access land which is eerily remote and wild with a range of different flora, shrubs and trees. We will then walk on the Sussex Border Path and continue to Liphook, where we will reward ourselves with a pub stop.

This will be English countryside in its quintessential beauty and at its best – with budding wild flowers and maybe some wild rhododendrons - as well experiencing Longmore Common which feels like walking over Scottish moreland.

SUMMARY (all info is approximate!)
Distance: 21km (13 miles)
Duration: 6-7 hours walking
Grade: Moderate

COST AND LOGISTICS
Cost: £10
Start: 8.35 London Paddington for Group Save
Meet: 8:45 for those who buy their own tickets & walk to train
Finish: 5.30/6pm for an optional pub visit.

Recommended morning train from London
Dep: 09:00 London Waterloo
Arr: 10.05 Petersfield
Return trains: 18.20, 19.20

Recommended train ticket
Off-Peak Day Return to Henley
· £25.75 group save/ network rail price
Recommended: Buy a yearly Network Railcard for reduced train prices
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Meeting Point:
In front of Information Desk by