(S/E) Leave Walhampton Arms car park and turn right along the (Main Road) B3054, passing the entrance to Walhampton School.
(1) When the road bends right, take the track leading straight on, beyond a metal gate. At a gate into a farm compound, take the narrow path on the right. Level with the end of a barn you reach a junction – in all but the driest conditions you are advised to turn right, as the path ahead can be very muddy.
(2) Whichever path you take, when you reach Hundred lane, turn left and follow the lane between houses and gardens to a triangular junction with a road on the left, where you carry straight on.
Pass the entrance to Southlands School on a right-hand bend and take the driveway ahead, with a sign for Vicars Hill Farm. The surfaced drive descends to the farm; take a grassy path straight ahead between the buildings that leads down to the valley bottom.
(3) Turn left along a narrow path, close to the river at first and then with a large reedbed to your right, sometimes in the open but often among trees. Pass a wooden gate partway along. After 600 yards you meet a road (Undershore); turn right and follow the road for half a mile, still with the reedbed behind the hedge to your right, until you reach the junction with the B3054.
(4) (For a slightly shorter walk, turn left just before the junction, through a metal gate, onto a permitted path (Walhampton Hill) that leads parallel to the B-road back to the departure, where you can turn left to return to the Walhampton.)
- For the longer walk via the Burrard Monument, turn right along the main road (B3054). When the road bends right to cross the Lymington River, take Undershore Road, straight ahead, with the wide river basin on your right.
(5) Follow the pavement until you reach a house on the right overlooking the river, where you cross to the left-hand side and join a side road. Ignore the gravelly private road on the left, then turn left between a New Forest boundary marker and a notice welcoming you to the Walhampton Monument site.
Follow the footpath up the edge of the wood to the obelisk. Turn left along Monument Lane (past a small parking area) then follow the road round a left-hand bend and back to the Walhampton Arms. (S/E)
