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Continue along the path to a gate fronting a patch of scrubland and the bed of the River Swift, which is immediately to the right. Cross the few metres to a kissing gate and a grassy path enclosed by electric fencing.

The bed of the intermittent River Swift continues in parallel – a ‘winterbourne’, which from time to time feeds into the Bourne Rivulet – a tributary of the River Test. The flow of the Swift has been interrupted for very long periods in the past when there has been insufficient rain during the winter.

At the end of the path is a wide field gate that opens on to a very small area of meadow. Continue to the gate opposite and follow the enclosed grassy path to an old kissing gate that leads to a stony path and the busy A343 running through Hurstbourne Tarrant.

Between Linkenholt and Hurstbourne Tarrant

Cross the road to the residential access track that gives way to another enclosed path alongside a rendered wall. After a few metres ignore the waymarked footpath and stile (left) and continue to a second old kissing gate that opens into a rising field; descend diagonally right for 125 metres to a third old kissing gate and the B3048. Cross the road and bear left for 90 metres, passing the school, before turning right to join the rough tarmac track for the few metres to the recreation ground car park.