Hook Parish Council published a leaflet in 2007 covering four short
walks around Hook. On this website, you can either:
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Download the leaflet
(850kb file in PDF Format - a free reader can be downloaded from
Adobe.)
or
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Print out detailed route plans for each
walk. This includes GPS waypoints - which you can also download.
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West Green House |
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This walk takes you through bluebell
woods and open fields to West Green House
(www.westgreenhousegardens.co.uk) with its garden full of follies
and monuments and its tearoom and garden shop. The walk follows the
River Whitewater for some of the way where it also passes a pub.
More info >
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Walk B: |
Rotherwick
(3.5 miles / 5.5km - 1 hour 20 minutes)
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This lovely walk is easy for all the family. You’ll often see deer in the
fields and in the autumn there are blackberries along many of the hedges.
The walk takes you to Rotherwick with its village duck pond, 13th century
church as well as a two country pubs.
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Rotherwick Church |
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King John's Castle |
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This walk takes you through woodlands over to Greywell (pub). It
then follows the Basingstoke Canal past King John’s Castle (13th
century), to North Warnborough where there are two more pubs. It
then comes back across Bartley Heath (another pub). The heath is a
great place for wildlife including deer, the resident New Forest
ponies, and many species of flowers and butterflies (summer) and
fungi (autumn).
More info >
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This short walk follows the River Whitewater for part of its course on a
new path created in Bassett’s Mead (near Holt Park). This chalk stream is
rich in wildlife and you can sit by it and watch the ducks at the pub at
the end of the walk.
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River Whitewater |
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NOTE: All the walks can be muddy in places in wet weather. Suitable footwear
is strongly recommended.
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The Walking in Hampshire website has an extensive list of other walks in the county.
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