Easy walks for the whole family

Hampshire Surrey Sussex

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Zig-Zag Path

What better way to climb the hill up to Selborne Common than via the zig-zag path that naturalist Gilbert White cut into the hillside over 200 years ago? Once you have enjoyed the views from above, make your way back down the beech hanger and enjoy refreshments from the pub at the bottom.

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Every Ambling Path walk has a stand out feature that children will love including magnificent play areas, shallow rivers for paddling, epic country parks and ancient ruins to explore.

Covering two national parks and two national landscapes, our detailed guides have all the information you need to get the whole family out walking right away.

Browse over 200 walks! Use the map to find a walk near you, hit the main menu to find walks by feature, look inside our themed collections or just tap the search bar.

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What’s new?

  • Since our last visit, this walk at Itchenor in the Chichester Harbour National Landscape has got a new café to add to the pub already in the charming waterside village.

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  • It was good to see that this path was back open again over the River Meon at Droxford. It looks like you were pleased too, as our reel of this walk has had 230, 000 views to date!

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  • We usually do this walk at Soberton in the Meon Valley in the summer when we can picnic and paddle. The river was was too high to paddle, but food from the White Lion pub made up for this!

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  • The ploughmans at The Royal Oak comes highly recommended, as does this walk in the surrounding New Forest which we recently updated.

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  • Because everyone loves a refreshment stop on a walk, we have added directions for reaching a tea-room with a little play area to this walk at Iping Common near Midhurst.

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  • Welford Park is the home of The Great British Bake Off and is also one of the best places to see snowdrops in the south of England.

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