Bewl Water
Turn right out of the car park, follow Pickforde Lane to the main road in Ticehurst, and turn right through the village, keeping forward at the junction by the Bell pub in the Wadhurst/Tunbridge Wells direction. Just after house No 32 (Wisteria House), turn right on a path between houses. Keep in this direction, soon between fences. Eventually the path emerges into a field and goes forward along the left side of a field, then switches to the other side of the hedge (on the right side of the next field) when a distant oasthouse comes into view.
Drop into a small wood, and 100 yards (91m) later turn right at a T-junction of tracks, immediately bending left to enter the right-hand of two fields, up a grassy strip along the field-edge. Cross a lane to the driveway opposite, then as the driveway bends left to a weatherboarded house, go forward on an enclosed path between hedges. Turn right at a signpost at a path junction just a few paces before a corner of a track above you, on another path between hedges, past a summerhouse with a cockerel weather vane away to the left.
Turn left at a path T-junction with the edge of Bewl Water soon coming into view, now on the Round Bewl Water Walk. The well-trodden path runs close to the water, later passes a pair of oasthouses and beyond a small car park, reaches a T-junction with a lane that once crossed land where the reservoir now is. Turn right on this lane, through a barrier, immediately continuing to the left to regain views of the reservoir. The path enters woods.
At a junction with the Round Bewl Water Walk, signposted to the left through a gate, do not follow it (unless you want to shorten the walk) but go forward over a stile on a path skirting a peninsula, on the edge of the lake. This peninsula juts out into the reservoir, and looks over to the visitor centre, with the dam later coming into view. The path enters woods at a Sussex Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve sign.Â
At the recess of the inlet, reach a footpath junction by a footbridge on your right. Don’t cross the bridge but turn left, through a gate. The path rises gently past Hazelhurst Farm and its garden on your left, to reach the concrete driveway to the farm. Turn right on this driveway, over a cattle grid and turn left at a track T-junction just before some houses at the edge of Three Legged Cross. Turn right on the road, past some weatherboarded cottages, then past the Bull pub on your right, where you keep left into Cross Lane. Turn left through Ticehurst village to return to the car park.
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