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Turn left out of the pub, then left at the Old Vicarage to Wild Goose Cottage. Turn right to the parish church, and leave by the gates. Turn right, following the path to rejoin the road at the sign for Homefields. Pass Hedge Farm and turn right in 30m over a stile. Crossing another stile, go downhill then left to cross a stile, a stream and left uphill to Ridgeway Farm (6).
Continue to the junction with Hyde Lane. Go left on the bridleway uphill, ignoring ways off, through a kissing gate, and at a four-way junction turn left downhill. Continue on this track passing a cottage below to your left. Go through a gate, then left through the kissing gate on the left downhill. Cross the stream, go uphill passing a house on the right. Pass through a gate then right by a yellow salt bin, the track undulating as you enter the Devil’s Punchbowl.
When you come to boggy ground bordered by railway sleepers to your right and a small stump to the left, go right uphill. Turn right and parallel to the road at the top on a track to emerge below the Devil’s Punchbowl Café, left (7).
Cross the A3 and take the footpath nearest to the hotel. Continue downhill through a gate and straight on to the first crossing paths. Here follow the Greensand Way (GW) arrow uphill. Keep straight on over the next three path junctions, emerging on a road opposite Little Scotstoun House (8). Turn right , then left after Thursley House, 350m. Follow the byway to a tarmac road, 500m. Turn left, cross a stream, turn right following the GW sign. Cross a stile and tarmac road and continue on the signed path to Ventnor House. Turn right downhill to St Bartholomew’s Church, 150m. Bear left along Tanner Lane and after the bridge turn right to Pathfields. Follow the signs to “town centre”, where Haslemere station is signposted.
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