Meet at West Town Car Park by 9.15 a.m. for car share to Hambledon.
Travel via Waterlooville and Denmead so as to enter Hambledon village passing the Old Forge cafe to your left. Park as soon as possible - postcode PO7 4SP, grid reference SU641146. Meet up on the main road opposite Old Barn Crescent. The grid reference is SU641146 and the postcode is PO7 4AF.
You can buy a coffee at the Tea Rooms where there is a toilet.
We will start the walk when everyone is ready, and 10.00 at the latest.
We walk past the church then start climbing onto Windmill Down through the vineyard, which was the first to be established in England in modern times. We turn onto a minor road to walk through Chidden then take another footpath across Chidden Holt and back to the eastern end of Hambledon village to walk back to the cars.
The paths are all on the chalk down and look as though they drain well, but do come prepared for the possibility of muddy stretches of path.
The total distance is 5.2 miles with no stiles and 300 feet of height gain, nothing steep.
A pub lunch has been booked for 6 people at 1 p.m.at The Rising Sun at Clanfield.