Christchurch And Iford Route

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 11.32 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 3h 15 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 15 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 15 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 21 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 0 m
  • ⚐
    District: Christchurch 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 50.75262° / W 1.801332°
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Description

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 6 m - Start on Hurn Way
  2. 2 : km 0.16 - alt. 7 m - Turn left onto Hurn Road, B3073
  3. 3 : km 0.52 - alt. 12 m - Turn right
  4. 4 : km 0.53 - alt. 12 m - Turn left
  5. 5 : km 0.57 - alt. 13 m - Turn right onto Marlow Road
  6. 6 : km 0.69 - alt. 21 m - Turn right onto Hillside Drive
  7. 7 : km 0.74 - alt. 20 m - Turn slight right onto Hillside Drive
  8. 8 : km 1.13 - alt. 11 m - Turn right onto Hillside Drive
  9. 9 : km 1.23 - alt. 7 m - Turn left onto Hurn Road, B3073
  10. 10 : km 1.43 - alt. 7 m - Keep left onto Hurn Road, B3073
  11. 11 : km 1.45 - alt. 8 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Fairmile Road, B3073
  12. 12 : km 1.77 - alt. 8 m - Turn left onto Norfolk Avenue
  13. 13 : km 2.09 - alt. 8 m - Turn left onto Suffolk Avenue
  14. 14 : km 2.46 - alt. 7 m - Turn right onto Marsh Lane
  15. 15 : km 2.78 - alt. 7 m - Turn left
  16. 16 : km 3.54 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp left
  17. 17 : km 3.62 - alt. 2 m - Turn right
  18. 18 : km 4.4 - alt. 6 m - Turn left onto Bargates, B3073
  19. 19 : km 4.61 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  20. 20 : km 4.66 - alt. 5 m - Turn left
  21. 21 : km 4.69 - alt. 5 m - Turn sharp left
  22. 22 : km 4.71 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  23. 23 : km 4.74 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  24. 24 : km 4.75 - alt. 5 m - Turn left
  25. 25 : km 4.84 - alt. 4 m - Turn left
  26. 26 : km 4.86 - alt. 4 m - Turn left onto Saxon Square
  27. 27 : km 4.89 - alt. 4 m - Turn left onto Saxon Square
  28. 28 : km 4.92 - alt. 5 m - Turn left
  29. 29 : km 4.97 - alt. 4 m - Turn right onto Millhams Street North
  30. 30 : km 5.01 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Millhams Street
  31. 31 : km 5.16 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Castle Street
  32. 32 : km 5.25 - alt. 1 m - Turn right
  33. 33 : km 5.67 - alt. 1 m - Turn right
  34. 34 : km 5.69 - alt. 2 m - Turn left
  35. 35 : km 5.98 - alt. 0 m - Keep left
  36. 36 : km 6.06 - alt. 1 m - Turn left
  37. 37 : km 6.21 - alt. 1 m - Turn sharp right
  38. 38 : km 6.23 - alt. 2 m - Turn sharp left
  39. 39 : km 6.35 - alt. 1 m - Turn right onto Sopers Lane
  40. 40 : km 6.39 - alt. 1 m - Turn left onto Willow Way
  41. 41 : km 6.64 - alt. 2 m - Keep right
  42. 42 : km 6.66 - alt. 2 m - Turn slight left onto Willow Drive
  43. 43 : km 6.82 - alt. 2 m - Keep left onto Willow Drive
  44. 44 : km 6.85 - alt. 3 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Stour Road, B3059
  45. 45 : km 7.06 - alt. 3 m - Turn right
  46. 46 : km 7.07 - alt. 4 m - Turn right
  47. 47 : km 7.14 - alt. 5 m - Turn left
  48. 48 : km 7.23 - alt. 7 m - Turn right
  49. 49 : km 7.32 - alt. 8 m - Turn right onto Iford Lane
  50. 50 : km 7.79 - alt. 5 m - Turn right
  51. 51 : km 8.29 - alt. 4 m - Turn sharp right
  52. 52 : km 9.08 - alt. 4 m - Keep right
  53. 53 : km 9.38 - alt. 4 m - Turn right onto Iford Lane
  54. 54 : km 9.57 - alt. 6 m - Keep right onto Old Bridge Road
  55. 55 : km 9.73 - alt. 3 m - Turn right
  56. 56 : km 10.04 - alt. 3 m - Turn left onto Cedar Avenue
  57. 57 : km 10.27 - alt. 4 m - Turn right onto Beech Avenue
  58. 58 : km 10.4 - alt. 4 m - Turn left onto River Way
  59. 59 : km 10.4 - alt. 4 m - Turn right onto Hurn Way
  60. S/E : km 11.32 - alt. 6 m

Useful Information

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↔8.40 km ↗+165 m ↘-162 m ◔2h 50 ▲Easy
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↔1.06 km ↗+7 m ↘-7 m ◔0h 20 ▲Easy
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↔2.80 km ↗+10 m ↘-10 m ◔0h 50 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Brockenhurst (Hampshire)

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Walking Blackwater : Tall Trees Trail

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↔2.28 km ↗+8 m ↘-8 m ◔0h 40 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Brockenhurst (Hampshire)

A woodland walk for all seasons. Stimulate your senses on this short trail around the Forestry Commission's Blackwater Arboretum, with its small but nationally important collection of trees from all over the world. Sensory information boards along the trail. This walk takes you past majestic conifers planted in the 1850s, some of the oldest Douglas fir trees in Britain and includes views of two enormous redwoods.

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