Farlington Marshes
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"Birds and bombs make a colourful backdrop to this bracing walk in Langstone Harbour."
Walk directions
Leave the car park through the kissing gate beside the Wildlife Trust’s notice boards and walk down the slope to the information board. Turn right through a kissing gate and onto the harbour wall. The winding coastal path offers exceptional views across Langstone Harbour and turns hard left after almost 1 mile (1.6km).
The scenery changes as you head north, with views to the red-brick Victorian forts along the top of Portsdown Hill. Continue walking past a viewing area and an information panel, followed by an old wartime bunker, then keep an eye out for the low bulk of North Binness Island drawing closer
on your right.
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Additional information
Terrain
- Mostly gravel tracks but the final grassy section can be muddy, particularly in winter
Landscape
- Grazing marsh, wetlands and harbour wall
Dog friendliness
- On lead at all times
Parking
- Coastal car park by A27 (may be very busy at weekends)
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
Farlington Marshes, just across the Broom Channel from Portsea Island and the teeming city centre, are right in Portsmouth’s back garden. Cut off from the north by the busy A27 and surrounded on three sides by Langstone Harbour, this peaceful wildlife reserve has been managed by the Hampshire and...
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About the area
Hampshire’s varied landscape of hills and heaths, downlands and forests, valleys and coast are without rival in southern England. Hike across the chalk downland of the north Hampshire ‘highlands’, meander along peaceful paths through unspoilt river valleys of the Test, Itchen, Avon and Meon, or explore the lonely salt marshes and the beautiful medieval forest and heathland of the New Forest.
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