Frankenbury Hill Fort

Starting at the Godshill cricket club, head left alongside the road down to the Fighting Cocks pub. At the junction turn right and head downhill past the village hall. Turn left at the waymarker and through a kissing gate into a field, following the hedge on your left (1). Keep following the hedge until you reach a stile. Go over the stile and keep following the which continues on between two hedgerows.

Go on for two hundred metres or so and look out for a stile on your left, it can get a bit overgrown sometimes(!) Go over the stile across some large fields heading towards Sandy Balls Holiday Park. Keep left following the hedgerows in the field until you reach another stile. Hope over the stile and head right, away from the holiday park, pass utility works on your left. Follow the path through an old beech wood and along the edge of Frankenbury Fort.

Follow the path as it bends left downhill and turn right off the path through a waymarked metal gate into a wood. In spring see if you can spot primroses, bluebells, wood anemone and creeping buttercups. Go through another gate. Please keep dogs under close control to reduce disturbance to wildlife and livestock grazing on the pastures.

As you emerge from the woodland turn left onto a gravel track towards Folds Farm. At the track junction turn right to join the Avon Valley Path for a short section. Continue straight ahead through the farm and over a stream. At the waymarker, cross over a cattle grid and follow the gravel track straight ahead to join the road.

Turn right and follow the road for 80m and take your first right down a gravel track alongside houses. Continue following this lower track, which becomes an enclosed grassy track past a cottage. Ahead is a wooden bridge with a stile across a stream flowing alongside a meadow.

Cross over and follow the path alongside the stream and over a stile into the next field. Go straight on across two more fields with gates. At the third waymarked gate turn right onto a gravel track and through a wide gate uphill to the track junction. At the waymarker go straight ahead uphill through a wood. Turn right at the field gate and retrace your steps alongside the hedge to the first waymarker. Turn right through the gate to re-join the road and back uphill to the Fighting Cocks pub.