Kingfisher Trail walk leaflet - Walk4Life

Walk Highlights
Chalk grassland is home to a wide variety of plants and
animals. Grazing animals help to maintain the balance of
different plants found here, which provide valuable food
for rare butterflies including the Adonis blue, silverspotted
skipper and Duke of Burgundy. It is also a home
for many threatened birds, including skylarks.
In December 1991, Twyford Down became the site of
the UK’s first road protest camp when environmentalists
gathered to try and hinder work on the construction of
the final link in the M3. Despite years of protests, the
highly controversial road building project was completed
in 1994.
Kingfisher trail
Twyford
St. Catherine’s Hill is a wildlife-rich chalk grassland
nature reserve with an abundance of wildflowers and
butterflies. The Hill is also an Iron Age hill fort and boasts
spectacular views over Winchester and the Itchen Valley.
The reserve is owned by Winchester College and
managed by the Wildlife Trust. In the summer, look
out for musk orchids and frog orchids on the south
facing slope.
Adonis blue butterfly © Mark Heighes
The Itchen Navigation Heritage Trail Project is a Heritage
Lottery Fund project managed by the Wildlife Trust, preserving
an internationally important chalk river system for future
generations. Find out more about the Itchen Navigation at:
www.itchennavigation.org.uk
Twyford Down monument
Distance:
6 miles/ 10km
Walking time:
3 hours
Terrain: hilly
View from St Catherines Hill © Chris Newbury
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Beechcroft, Vicarage Lane
Curdridge, Hampshire
SO32 2DP
www.hwt.org.uk

Kingfisher Trail
WINCHESTER
Footpaths
Kingfisher Trail
Take a walk across the rolling hills of the
South Downs National Park and along the
stunning Itchen river valley.
1
2
From Compton Lock, go through the right hand
gate into the water meadows and follow the path
heading southeast.
Go through the gate into the next field and keep left
along the field edge. Cross the bridge over the river.
St. Cross
Farm
Cricket
Ground
St.Cross
Park
Cricket
Ground
P
St. Cross
Bridge
Hockley
Farm
P
10
St. Catherine’s
Hill
St. Catherine’s
Lock
M3
Twyford
End Lock
Path
Hockley
Golf Course
9
Twyford
Down
Twyford Down
Monument
P
Minor roads
Motorway
Railway
Landmarks
Public House or Café
Car Park
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4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Go up Berry Lane past Twyford Parish Church.
Cross Twyford Road (B3335) and continue onto
Bourne Lane.
At Bourne Field take the footpath straight ahead.
At the end of the path, turn left and follow the road
to the waterworks.
Turn right onto the track before the waterworks
(under a vehicle barrier).
Turn left onto Mare Lane.
At the T-junction cross the road and join the footpath.
Follow the path to the motorway.
Cross the bridge over the motorway and take the
path around the left hand side of St. Catherine’s Hill.
When you reach the Itchen Navigation, turn left and
follow the towpath south to the motorway. Cross
the road at the level crossings and follow the
pavement along the Twyford Road a short distance
until the footpath turns right off the road. Follow the
Itchen Navigation south.
Itchen
Navigation
Shawford
Railway Station
Path
SHAWFORD
Tumbling
Bay
Compton
Lock
1
2
B3335
Hockley
House
Hockley
Lodge
Hockley
Farm
Berry Lane
3 4
Twyford
Parish
Church
TWYFORD
P
Twyford
School
New Barn
Farm
River
Itchen
Bourne Lane
Bourne
Lodge
Path
Orchard
Close
Littlebourne
Hazeley Rd
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6
Twyford
Waterworks
Morestead
Farm
Hazeley
Farm
Farm track
Hazeley
Down
Hazeley Down
House
8
Mare Lane
7
500m