In this episode, Dave stays “local” and enjoys a walk close to the villages of Bramshaw & Nomansland in the North of the New Forest.
My 4 mile circular route starts and finishes at the Bramble Hill Walk Forestry Commission car park and initially takes me across beautiful heathland – where I come across some Bronze Age burial mounds -and on to Black bush Plain (close to the highest point in the New Forest).
After heading in to Bramshaw Wood with it’s ancient boundary banks, I take a minor detour to look at the pretty village of Nomansland with it’s quaint cricket pitch and war memorial (and super pub – The Lamb Inn).
The walk takes me back in to Bramshaw Wood, heading South again, where I enjoy some beautiful woodland scenes, many fallen trees due to recent storms and a deer high seat before finally crossing the Shepherds Gutter stream, and heading back to my starting point via the Ravens Nest Inclosure.
Map courtesy of Google Maps.
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