Directions
From the car park walk along the wide track up the hill and into the woods.
At the viewing platform and ladder on your right, turn left
Continue on the track, the stone track eventually runs out and you continue into the wood along a mud track until you eventually arrive at an old gate leading out of wood
Go through the gate and into the field, cross the field keeping the hedgerow on your right until you reach the road. It is advisable to put your dogs on a lead for this section as you are approaching the road,
Turn right along the road, use the verge if necessary when cars approach. The road crosses the brook. Then take the footpath on the right with a hedgeline on your left, if you miss this you can pick it up further up the road by taking drive leading to Purley Farm.
At the farm go through the farm buildings and past the horse paddock on your left. Walk around the field keeping the hedgerow on your right, past the gap by the observation tower, around the mature trees and through the gap into the next field
Head diagonally left across the field and cross the stile by the Oak tree into the next field.
Walk part way across the field until you are level with the metal gate on your left. Turn right and head towards a metal gate. Cross the through the gate and across a narrow field, through the small metal gate and keep ahead crossing the brook by a small wooden bridge. (there are number of fallen trees* making the path difficult to see, so keep in a straight general direction and you will find the bridge)
Continue straight up the hill until you reach a crossroads of bridleways. Turn left and through a wooden gate into the Wiltshire Wildlife Echo Lodge Nature Reserve. Continue straight across the field and through the next two gates..
Keep the wood on your right and continue down the hill and out of the reserve by the kissing gate.
Trail recorded February 2005
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