Wasing Park and Brimpton
Follow the path opposite The Pineapple across two stiles to the road. Cross over to join a byway, and follow it round to the right and across the common. When it swings sharp left, go straight on along the public footpath, still a track. Take the path to the right of Woodside, bear left at a T-junction (signed 'Permitted Bridleway') and follow the path. Where it joins a track, veer off left at a waymark, following the field-edge path. Just past the corner of the field veer to your right and follow a narrow path (this may be overgrown). Look for an opening in the trees ahead, cross a bridge, and continue as the path goes down then up, and turns right at a track. At the first junction go right, following the battered old sign 'For visiting (Wasing) church and graveyard only'. (If you reach a tarmac lane you have missed the right turn and will have to go back.)
Pass a kissing gate, take the track, turn left at the bend and cut through the wood. Go through the gate signed 'Private Wasing Estate', and the small complex of buildings known as Wasing Park is directly ahead. Cross a track, go through a kissing gate, then through a field to visit the church via another kissing gate.Return to the drive. Turn right and pass between gate piers and continue ahead at crossroads, over a cattle grid. Follow the drive down to the road beyond a gate and a lodge.
Bear left to a junction, then right over the River Enborne to a fork. Keep left onto Wasing Road and turn right at the 'Wasing Estate Shalford Lakes' sign. Go through a gate, with the lakes over your right shoulder, to veer left along a grassy track, following the edge of the field (Brimpton Church is visible to your left). Make towards the houses (ignore a gate to your left, across fields) to a junction, and turn left by a galvanised gate.
Follow the path to the road and turn right. After a few paces go left to join the next path. Keep over to the left edge of the field, go through a kissing gate in the top corner and veer right. Turn right almost immediately you are through the next kissing gate to reach a housing estate. Turn right at the road, pass the Three Horseshoes pub and walk along to the church, following the waymarked path around the pretty churchyard.
The path leads into fields from the top left-hand corner of the churchyard. Just beneath the second set of power lines turn left, with a tall transmission mast on the horizon directly ahead. Head south to Hyde End Lane via three gates.
Turn left, keeping right at the fork onto a stony track, and passing entrances to The Lodge and Hyde End House. Look for a stile to the left of a footbridge and cross a meadow. Over the stile, follow the river bank to a footbridge and stile. Cross over and take the path through the wood to a brick bridge. Cross the road and follow the track, taking the path to the left of it between the woodland edge and wire fence. Cross a stile and plank bridge, and make for a bridge in the far right corner of the field. Follow a line of trees to a stile and cross the next pasture towards buildings. Approaching a gate and a cottage, veer left to a stile. Cross to another stile by the road, opposite The Ship Inn. Turn left here and walk along the road (B3051) back to The Pineapple.
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