Up to Up Marden
From West Marden cross the B2146 and continue along Locksash Lane, Uppark House away to your left. Climb and follow the lane as it bears left past a brick and flint cottage to Locksash Farm. Continue to the left of the farm buildings and pass a footpath post.
The track descends to a fork, just inside woods, where you ignore a track to the left, then immediately fork left by a marker post. Descend through old hazel coppicing, and emerge into a field. Continue ahead across the valley floor and then up to marker post in a wood, Grevitts Copse. Shortly the path converges with a track joining from the right, now passing through a sweet chestnut coppice and bearing gently left to the crest. Keep left at a path junction (with power lines now visible) at footpath post and descend, continuing ahead at a footpath junction post.
Emerge from the woods, bear right along the field-edge and follow the field-edge as it bears left, right and left again all the way to a track, with occasional glimpses of Up Marden church through the hedge. At the track bear right uphill and then go right into Up Marden churchyard to visit this delightful downland church.
Return to the track and bear left, initially retracing your steps before continuing on the track downhill to cross a dry valley, following blue arrow markers. It then rises between hedgewows now on a footpath rather than a track, then at the next junction continue ahead on a hard track, dropping and rising to pass through a tree belt, then beside a conifer copse and alongside power lines on your right.
At a junction by a four-way marker post, take the path indicated by the yellow arrow ahead and slightly to the left, into a field entrance and along the hedge on the right to descend steeply towards Compton. At the bottom, turn right at a track junction by a signpost to join the track to descend into Compton village.
At Compton’s village centre, bear right to the church. From the bottom of the churchyard, go left along the path alongside the flint wall and leave the churchyard via steps and back into School Lane, the route by which you entered the village. Bear left and retrace your steps uphill. At the signpost at the path junction passed earlier keep forward on the bridleway and continue climbing out of the valley on the bridleway, levelling out at the crest.
Reaching a track junction, go right. Shortly the track bears left and descends steadily to a junction. Here turn right to retrace your steps back to West Marden.
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