Hundred Acre Wood/West Walk
Children will enjoy the wooden huts, woodland play area and sandpit on this walk.
The Basics
Time: 50 minutes
Distance: 1.6 miles
Terrain: Well maintained woodland paths, some steady hills
Pushchair: Yes
Dogs: Yes, but not in the sandy play area on the left hand side
Refreshments: Mimi Makes food truck in the car park with cakes, bakes, hot drinks and hot dogs, Thursday - Sunday
Toilets: Yes, beside the car park
Parking: Large pay and display car park (Postcode: PO17 6JB - W3W: signs/shorted/gosh)
Known to some as Hundred Acre Wood, West Walk is actually part of The Forest of Bere, an ancient landscape that once stretched uninterrupted across much of Southern Hampshire. Today, you will find miles of easy, marked woodland trails as well as an excellent children’s playground and picnic area.
The Route
There are many routes you can explore, including a few waymarked ones. We like this short and easy pushchair friendly one for our children.
Walk down the main path from the car park with the sand pit play area to your left and the woodland play area to your right. Continue ahead and then go left at the first fork.
Continue to a meeting of five paths and take the first to the right. Keep going to the next fork, where you should bear right again.
You will cross over the river, which was not much more than a muddy stream when we were last there. After the river, take the first signposted track on your right. This will take you away from the main path.
When you reach a junction with a grassy triangle, take the path on the left going up hill.
Continue along this path until you reach the play area again. There is also a picnic area and toilets alongside.
Did you know?
At 350 hectares, West Walk is the largest remaining fragment of the ancient Forest of Bere.
