We would park in the car park to the sports ground, once we had kitted up we would head up to the road and turn right and follow the road through the village, going past The George Inn (on occasion we would call in here for a quick refreshment on our way back to the car) then crossing the road called Bulpits Hill, shortly after crossing this road there is a road called Back Lane, this runs parallel to the main road. We take this road as there is very little traffic on it compared to the main road, being a country village there are no pavements on most of the roads. Eventually you have to re-join the main road, following his until it takes a sharp turn to the right. We head over the stile in the left hand corner which leads into a long but narrow field. Keeping to the left hand hedge follow to the far left hand corner to another stile which brings you out opposite a cottage on Conholt Hill, bare right down and across the lane to the drive way between this cottage and Well Cottage. 
This drive way is also a public footpath; follow this path into the field behind the cottage, keeping the hedge row to your right start the steady climb up the hill to the tree line at the top. In this area is an old farm trailer slowly decaying over time! The tree line here forms a right angle leading from the hedge row you have just followed then turning left along the top of the hill. If you head into this small wood via the corner of the right angle heading north along the well worn track after a short distance we turn left; we pass a wide avenue going through the woods, which in the spring has a carpet of bluebells. Then we make another left, still following the well worn tracks. Depending how we feel on the day, we sometimes miss this section out by following the edge of the tree line in a big arc ending up in the same place near to Knolls Down and Fosbury Pit. From this point we follow the track to Fosbury Farm at the end of Tunball Lane. We continue along the track, (See version 2 of walk) eventually the track goes right, following the track to Chute Causeway, we head across the road and back onto the public footpath, following this path to the edge of a small wood, where we turn left and follow the path to the left hand edge of the wood. At the end of this path we go right. It is at this point we normally stop and take a breather and some refreshments. At the end of this track we go left again, following the track towards a water tower. When we get to the water tower, we turned left following this track until we reach Chute Causeway again at Scot’s Poor, crossing Chute Causeway we follow the footpath to the right of Scot’s Poor, the footpath skirts the right hand side of the woods, but as we get past the buildings on our right, we head into the woods, following a well defined track. We eventually rejoin the footpath as it goes right. The footpath from here enters a wide valley known as Hippencombe Bottom; (on one of these walks, the weather was glorious, hardly a cloud in the sky, and as we walked along Hippencombe Bottom towards the farm, we stopped for a breather and some refreshments. We lay down on the grass at the side of the track to enjoy the warm sun, while we lay there, I said to Andy, can you hear that? Andy strained his ears at first to hear the noise I had heard, then he realised what it was, we had been watching a glider high up in the sky, and because it was so quiet there, we could hear the glider cutting through the air as it rode the thermals) we follow the footpath to Hippencombe farm. From the farm we continue straight along the footpath. As the path bends round to the right, the hill side on the left hand side has a ridge of small trees/bushes; the one time as we walked along here, I thought I had seen some movement around the tree line. We stopped and watched, and there it was again, I had a cheap pair of binoculars in my rucksack, I quickly got them out, and we saw a family of fox’s going in and out of the trees/bushes. Continuing along the track, if you look into the fields to the right, more often than not it is populated with hundreds of rabbits. The track eventually comes out onto Conholt Hill near to Well Cottage, from here we cross the road and go back over the stile and into the narrow field from the start of the walk, going through the field and over the stile at the far end and onto the road and retrace our steps back to the car.

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Version 2

 

The other version of the walk is longer; it starts in the same place, and follows the same route in places.

From Fosbury Farm, follow the same route, but instead of continuing all the way along the track we turned left about half way along the track before the right hand bend. This track takes you down the side of the valley and through Hippencombe Farm to meet up with the track that goes through Hippencombe Bottom, we headed up the other side of the valley (this is quite steep, and can be quite slippy in wet conditions), this tree lined path continues into a wooded area, eventually you arrive at a road (Chute Causeway), we crossed this road and continued along the path, the path then goes right. We continued to follow the path to a road (Dummer Lane), crossing the road we continued along the track until we reached a lane, here we turned left and headed into the village of Upper Chute. We continued along the lane which skirts the village until the lane bends left, we headed right along Malthouse Lane. This lane heads past The Cross Keys Inn (on occasion we have stopped here for a bit of refreshment). We continued along the lane as it meandered along turning from a lane into a track, going left then almost immediately going right, the track eventually goes right next to some woods, we headed along the left hand side of the woods, then at the end of the woods we follow the path a short distance across a field to what we know as Collingbourne Woods. We followed the path into the wood, which in the spring has a carpet of bluebells. We eventually arrived at a track through the woods (Water Lane), we turned right onto the track, and we followed the track out of the woods, and through Gammons Farm and up to Scott’s Poor, where we return via the same route as the first version of the walk.