Walking in the English Countryside | TA Outdoors

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Join Graeme as he goes on a walk through the English Countryside. Follow him on his walk which starts in North Warnborough, Hampshire. He then travels through Greywell and past Greywell Fly Fishing. Then he finishes up on the Basingstoke Canal. We hope you enjoy the video and be sure to check out our Bushcraft, DIY and Shooting videos.

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no qualms BER is on the edge of odium in Hampshire you go into the High Street at North Warren but and you make it right into tunnel Lane signposted so you should be able to find that one okay now when you go down here you need to go fairly slowly it might look like a grow fast but I'm not it's just the camera because there are walkers at the end there is a canal and a drawbridge little parking spot there for you and to the left of the drawbridge is the sign there footpath now if you go in the afternoon this is particularly good at the sunset because you're walking into the Sun so you can see there the footpath going across that field right across to the other side but obviously it did this here as the seasons has changed what the crops are like nice easy flat walking when you get to the other side of the field you can walk along the head side just in front of me there but there's also little gap now if you go through this gap there will be a style there always is a style there and there's panics a horses on the side so you go over the style taking great care not to fall and you're gonna follow those railings and the footpath signs put up there to the opposite side of the field when you get right to the opposite end of this field you go follow this post and rain along there there's another style now then this is always pretty muddy except at the height of summer because the horse is there over that style go towards the houses in the distance it's very narrow field this one and occasionally their horse is in there who knows it's just a footpath going through and it picks up north warm for High Street before you go through that you go through it in a sliding style there down a narrow alleyway which is a sort of walkway between the houses there and the timeline it's making this film it comes out onto the high street now as I'm standing there can I make them right up the high street you're then leaving north walbrook it's looking back at it and I'm going up the hill here when I get to the top of the hill with a road on the left at odium and over there is the street the high street from north warm when I walked out north warm but about half a mile and I'm heading out towards grey wall upton grey not odium I'll go to the top of that hill where that car is on the right just to give you a guide there you're gonna be walking past another road which also goes down and meets the canal there so you're gonna be walking past Deptford Lane you don't on this route this particular walk I've done you don't actually go down Bedford Lane here you see the sign definitely we go towards grey well as you can see the finger sign odium is behind me I'm gonna be walking left going towards Upton grey walk to the top of this hill about where my wife is standing and there's a footpath to the left that's a different route this is to make a circular room for you and on the right when you get past that finger sign they're almost opposite is a gap now this view is definitely worth doing in an afternoon you won't be disappointed with a view like this is stupendously panoramic and a prime example of well great Hampshire countryside as yet not a housing estate fabulous view and you're looking saw Westar Southwest they're across big fields though they can grow anything here each time the crop is going to be different but it really is a great view and a nice walk down the footpath straight down across the hill and a lot of Flint here very historic area you're gonna see quite a bit of huge chunks of Flint especially if you go in the ultimate eye look at that view that goes for miles and miles and miles now there's a particularly large lock to flip there as you can see it's actually been cleaved off there because you maybe by the plow and it goes through there feel it if you're into collecting Flynn you want to come here in the autumn art if they plowed everything up early winter now this is a foot apart easily designating when there's a Crocker in there because you just see it walks right over towards the woods when you get to the bottom of them at the field they're just keep going straight towards a hedge and you'll see a gate now there is the farm crossing gate I call that one some people call them kissing gates I think it's called a crossing gate it's marked the livestock grazing now there might or might not be here to the right I can go back towards the canal if I want if it get it's a footpath to the right if I wanted to go straight across there there's also a footpath always remember to close the gates now we're gonna be going left there I'm gonna be turning left through that gate you can go straight across across the river but I want to pick the river up further along so through the gate keeping the hedge on your left in the afternoon as I say you're pretty well walking tours of sunshine

we hope all right depending on the British weather you're actually on grey well moss and this is a designated area it's really good for wildlife if you go early in the morning or late in the evening

it's a marshland area and you could read all up on it cuz they put these bulletin boards there you know give you a bit of information there little bit of information will obviously give you an idea whatever you are where you're walking

you've what possibly half a mile along and you will come to another one there's the field on the left that's and when we walked across here we come to another style you'll then be leaving great well boss there's a sign so that's gonna be behind me another gate this one's a wooden gate at the time I'm filming open and bearing in mind this livestock science and whether it'll be nice talking though I don't know as with all things that the countryside best to keep gates closed follow this footpath and it goes under your see sort of southwester - that is over to the right because you can tell by the way these trees have been bent there's a secondary part there ignore that keep on the main path the agricultural field is on your left and the wood curve right over the top of your head so in the springtime this could be really good and quite pretty in fact you can notice just how much our view there is on these trees here and that's another another that it would be I have in my bonnet about how much only bees growing now now when you get to the end of this one it goes left and right a foot box that's gonna there's two big steel girder stakes in there on the right you can't go up the left but you'll be walking away from this circular room I would turn right I've come down that bridle way that's what I've walked down with the curved trees then there's a sign for the footpath go down the footpath now you're getting into a fairly foggy sort of area even in the summer it can be quite muddy there follow your way around and you're going to come up to a lake now these clumps you can see these Tufts on the Left I've read up and they can be actually 50 years old so very historic area of this and this Lake is unbelievably clear there's the underwater camera how clear is that it looks like the Bahamas it looks like a Caribbean hard to believe it's just outside odium in Hampshire just up from North warm and as you can see I'm there in the middle of winter and it is tap water clear but being a watery sort of area where the springs rise the footpath is also muddy wonderful setting but in fact I've never really seen a lot of bird life there so when that water doesn't hold a lot of insects or plant life I don't know for them there you can see these unusual tussocks let's say they can be up to 50 years old these weird-looking things so that's chronic something that's quite interesting I find anyway or walking past something that's it is older than I am so you follow the footpath along you've got the lake on your left and you come up against the milk really really old mill you get a pass just slightly to the right of that bill there's an old sluice you can see the old wood timber sluice and just look at the tap water clarity of the water running through into the little river there so the mill could be backed up by closing their sluice and through that slatted gateway if you night you can see the original wood will which is very very unusual and it's pretty large so this is obviously a milling area I would guess if I put the camera through there you can see that is probably the actual original mill wheel that they use maybe the spokes are missing now to see the holes at the top but it's nice to see something well I won so it's preserved it doesn't look as preserved as I would have thought but you can see it was a working unit now come back out and just opposite you you'll see gray well fly-fishing and that's where they do the trout fishing their bill is on my left you see the brick wall there you're going to follow the main footpath and the bottom end of the mill is here so you can see the stream just come underneath the mill come out the other side now runs down to meet up with the main river about 20 30 yards up you'll see the footpath signed copy site services by Hampshire County Council follow that footpath down you'll be going all the way down with the river on your right

they got a nice boardwalk 11 years ago when I was younger they never used to have a boardwalk very very muddy because the river was that close to the edge you were walking and the boardwalk makes it a really interesting place it's pretty good it's pretty easy to walk there and of course you got all the all the all the vegetation and look at in the springtime especially since we're really nice walk

now a lot of this over the years I've noticed in the last year or so have been cleared now if you get to the end of the boardwalk you go back on the track II and you will eventually come into the graveyard I suppose you can call it the dead center of the place there's the church nice little church there to walk keeping the church on your right saying the winter is easy to follow because you're going to see the footpath there and the interest of the church is on the opposite side to which you've walked and you're gonna be walking across those fields to the houses in the distance through another style area or gate there's the door now I do wonder on those hinges is there a link to the see because they look very much like anchors to me I don't know myself but with the church on your background behind you you can walk right up into the little village there foot part but I'm gonna be walking straight across you can just see the way mile to the houses little brown CREP marks right in the other side it's really two fields but they could they could of course make it one field so if you imagine you're walking through this little hinge wooden gate gonna be walking right to the far side they're keeping the woodland on your right walking in the straight line when you get to the end of it you'll see a footpath sign and another style which takes you down through an alleyway between some properties when you come out you're coming out on the main road you can turn right or you could turn I turn left because I'm making this a circular walk for you you will cut the road taking care to watch out for traffic not particularly busy but always be aware when you're walking on the road in between houses you're in a mature residential area I'm gonna call it there's a pop-up on the left there if you do want to break and go and have a meal cutting the baby I think is Fox and goose I'm not sure on the right just before you get to that T judge this is a footpath take this footpath and it's quite now it's gonna go to the top end of the Basingstoke canal now up here it's called the grey world tunnel and you can easily see it by going down this not this narrow footpath with a high hedge over a panel fence and when you get to the end it recently been cleared this is in 2016 early 2016 you can see that you've got an open area over a bridge and there is the canal in fact the basis don't Canal relatively near this source this is a sort of a nice conservation area and extremely clear here the clarity of the water cane is very very clear you might not be able to see it looking down through there and that tunnel although it's small used to be a working place for boats and it's now got bats in there protected protected species of bats down inside there can't tell you how many's in there you know the contact the bat conservation people but the grey road tunnel is famous for its bats in there and a scenic nice piece of brickwork there as well so you've come over the bridge you turn right then you it is totally in it proof there's just some sort of clarity you can see on the actual canal and you can still see bits of Flint there as well if you look you can see the Flint on the bottom of the cow further down where they have the bowed active do you won't get this because the boats off see turn called up if you followed the towpath along it's very scenic I mean this is early 2016 the weed is still growing it's a lot of work being done over the far side this is a turning area here for the big long boats to turn around in and if you keep following that down there's a stream that runs underneath it this comes through the stream even following comes underneath and actually goes underneath the canal from the other side of the canal which seems weird but because underneath the canal and there's a sign that strikes the fear it's at most fisherman's hearts no fishing now a couple hundred yards on from there you have opium castle when I was a kid it was called king john's castle and now it looks like it's been renamed odium castle it was there I think it was a hunting lodge rustling for King John but it's always been owned by me and locals as kim jong castle not much of a castle left there now but it is a very historic area you might also know that a lot of the building they were stung with that very same Flint I'm gonna call it cemented in there but up on soon it's not some NPC between twelve seven and twelve fourteen live King John had the castle built here and then I believe Odom was at active 1216 baila French you can see if you look carefully loads and loads of Flint glued in there I would say in fact some of it falls out that's what I got the canopy there you walk down the footpath here keep going along the canal towpath and you come back to the bridge you can see the drawbridge here where the boats come through and I happen to be parked over on the other side you can park just down on the right and that is the circular route done hope you've enjoyed it

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