Bridleway No.46 – Broxhead Farm Road to junction of BW4 & BW54

Updated July 2020

Please take care when driving away from the layby. Traffic moves very fast here and the sightings are unavoidably bad.

Finger post by lay-by at the top of the hill on the east side of Broxhead Common. Go through the gap in the sandy bank.

There is a sign ‘Broxhead Common Nature Reserve’, to the right.
[Shortly after this, a track to the left leads to a Permissive Path which runs round the west and north edges of Broxhead Common East and this together with BW46 & BW54 makes an interesting circular walk.]

Follow the wide sandy track across open heathland to where bridleway narrows between gorse bushes. Ignore the path to the right.

Pause by iron gate on the left and admire view to the W and N with vistas of Alice Holt and Telegraph Hill at Binsted.

Carry on down slope to where bridleway turns ½ right and there are 3 gates on to private land. Good views here to the E and S of Woolmer Forest and Weavers Down.

The bridleway now runs 50m down sandy track the junction of BW4 and BW54 (photo in reverse direction), which together form part of the Shipwrights Way.