Yorkshire Walks

Ponies grazing near Telegraph Hill car park

We set off in a south westerly direction on a track across the heath with the woodland on our left for about 3.5 km to the edge of Amberwood Inclosure at map ref. SU208142

This would be our last day for a walk before driving home on Friday. We drove a few kilometre down the road to the car park at Telegraph Hill, map ref. SU229166.

Dewy cobwebs on the gorse

Stack of heather bales

Heading through the forest towards Fritham

We turned right to follow the track through the woods for about a kilometre to edge of the wood at map ref. SU223142 where there are some open fields to the left. We continued along the track to the road at map ref. SU231142.

One of my favourite trees - a huge Scots Pine against a lovely blue sky

Just to the side of the track at map ref. SU231142 there is a black letter box with an information board next to it which I have reproduce opposite.

The Powder Mill post box

From here it was only about 150m to the Royal Oak pub at Fritham. We sat at a picnic table in their beer garden for a very pleasant half an hour.

Returning across the heath to Telegraph Hill

At map ref. SU231149 we turned left off the track to follow a path across the heathheading roughly north for almost 2 km back to the car park at Telegraph Hill. The route had been 8 km and at my decrepit pace it had taken us over four hours including our stop at the Royal Oak in Fritham.

After our break we retraced our steps to the old powder mill post box and continued along the road for another 600m to a very pretty pond called Irons Well. At the pond we turned right off the road to follow a track through some woodland and out into some more open heath.

Resting by a stream on the way back to Telegraph Hill