Happy Cheese ramble, Ashurst, New Forest

To start this walk use the free car park next to the Happy Cheese pub and walk to the left with your back to the pub. You quickly come to a forestry gate but ignore that and a couple of metres further round the corner is a gate to walk to the station. After you cross the railway bridge the path into the field is blocked off and you need to go through the back gate of the pub. The walk then takes you through a campsite and although there's a sign to say dogs on leads, you can't follow the track with a dog. We were asked to leave by the shortest route which chopped off some of the walk. There is a path you can walk on with dogs to the left of the campsite (ask at reception). Even with that shortcut it took us a couple of hours to do the walk which is veery pleasant mostly through woods, not muddy.

Popular, easy walk.