Horton's Rebel King SU034072

About trip

Go towards the village and turn left over the stile by the pump. Head to Horton Tower, crossing two more stiles. Go up the hill, bearing diagonally left. Cross the fence at the top corner and turn right for the tower. Retrace your steps and stay on the track through a gate into Ferndown Forest. After 0.25 mile bear left on to a firmer track. Shortly, turn right between trees. Cross a stream and a track to a gate. Pass this, go through a bank and turn left along a forest ride. Turn right before the edge of the wood, and follow the path for 0.75 mile. Bear left at the bottom, down a track. Turn left at the crossroads and pass Paradise Farmhouse. Turn left between the houses and follow the road to Holt Lodge Farm. With the buildings to your left, bear half-right across the yard to a grassy lane. Continue to the end of the field, with the hedge to your right. Cross a stile and turn immediately left through a gate to Early's Farm. Then bear right, in front of the house, into a lane. At a junction after Chapel Farm, turn left, signed 'Long House', turn right at the next one and cross a stile. Bear left around the field, cross another stile behind a house and another stile to the road. Turn lefft, then right into the lane by Pee Wee Lodge. Keep straight on at the junction, then fork right into Grixey Farm. Follow the waymarker up the hill, crossing two stiles. With a copse on your left, go up the field. Cross a stile and turn left on to the road. After 0.5 mile bear left, signed 'Monmouth's Ash Farm', and take the path to the right of the bungalow. Keep straight on this bridleway up over a sandy heath and down into woodland, which is now home to Remedy Oak Golf Club. After a mile the metalled road emerges from the woods, and you can see Horton Tower. At Woodlands Manor Farm walk to the right of the golf club gates and turn left over a stile along the road with the fence. Bear down to the right beside the lake and stay on this road. After it becomes a track, look for two stiles in the hedge on the right, just after the farm. Cross these and go diagonally across the field to two more stiles. Bear right to the corner of the next field and another two stiles, turning right to meet the road. Turn left through Haythorne but, before the road descends, go right, through trees, to a gate and down the field, to emerge by the vineyard. Turn left anf left again to return to your car.