Faringdon's follies
Follow the car park exit road and turn left at the T-junction. Make for the town centre, following Gloucester Street along to Cornmarket. Pass The Red Lion and The Bell Hotel, cross the Market Place by keeping to the right side and pass The Folly Inn. Turn right into Stanford Road, then left at the sign for Folly Hill. Take the path, following it as it begins a moderate climb to Faringdon Folly. Keep to the right of the tower, emerge from the trees and continue ahead down the slope to a stile. Go straight ahead across the field to a gap leading out to the A420 road.
Cross over carefully to a field gate and go ahead, but on reaching a new plantation among older trees, bear half right, aiming to strike the Wadley Lodge drive to the left of a defunct white gate. Now with a pond well to your right, aim for a distant white metal gate. Keep left here, following trees and bushes along the field-edge. Make for the corner and pass through a gap to continue ahead on the bridleway, cutting across fields with woodland over to the right. This is Hatford Gorse and just beyond it is Tagdown Barn. Follow the bridleway to a house and join the road on a hairpin bend. Keep ahead to a left curve. The bridleway runs straight on.
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