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Follow the woodland track to a track junction where there is a signpost confirming that the track so far is a byway and the track ahead is a public bridleway. Continue through the woodland to a second public bridleway signpost at the point where the TW is joined by another track from the left. Emerge from Combe Wood and keep to the track along the field boundary at the base of Hart Hill Down to a single storey old farm building (left).

Alongside Combe Wood

In a further 300 metres, the track forks by a second more contemporary single storey building – an ‘outdoor activities’ facility. Take the right-hand fork for 75 metres uphill towards a modest flint cottage. Opposite the cottage is the TW waymarked path that goes directly into the woodland. The incline through the woodland of 150 metres is quite steep and the path is full of tree roots.

At the top, climb the stile on to the field margin that leads to a dark tunnel of laurel hedging and evergreen trees. At the end is a residential access drive where you should turn left to a narrow road and then left again towards Linkenholt and the unassuming – but nonetheless very attractive – Grade II-listed Church of St Peter. The Church of St Peter was largely rebuilt using flint in 1871 but retains several features of its original Norman construction.