Wilkins's Coomb

Puddleslosh Lane

I had to walk round this way to find out if the track lived up to its name - and it does!

Whitsbury Road

Modern housing development on the edge of Fordingbridge

Sweatfords Water flowing under Puddleslosh Lane

A fine set of rather wet placenames!

Plastic bales by the Avon Valley path

From where the Path makes a right-angled bend involving Fordingbridge footpaths 83 and 84. The same field appears in SU1415 : Plastic bales by the Avon Valley path. The house you can see is on Whitsbury Road.

Avon Valley Path near Upper Burgate

From the same junction as SU1415 : Plastic bales by the Avon Valley path. This is Fordingbridge footpath 83 heading towards the A338 at Upper Burgate. Ahead you can see the rear of units at the Fairgate Centre. Goodness, it's gone very gloomy.

Waymark post, Avon Valley Path

At the junction where SU1415 : Plastic bales by the Avon Valley path and SU1415 : Avon Valley Path near Upper Burgate were taken. The upper green arrow signals the route of the Avon Valley Path and displays the bridge symbol shown in SU1327 : Sign for the Avon Valley Path; the left arrow indicates the path to Tinkers Cross.

Avon Valley Path north of Fordingbridge

The gloom of the afternoon is intensified by the tall hedges and the narrowness of Fordingbridge footpath 84.

Avon Valley Path to Fordingbridge

From the same spot as SU1415 : Avon Valley Path north of Fordingbridge, looking in the opposite direction along Fordingbridge footpath 84.

Plastic bales by the Avon Valley path

The southern part of the field also shown in SU1415 : Plastic bales by the Avon Valley path, with the same house on Whitsbury Road visible.

Avon Valley Path leaving Fordingbridge

The path follows Fordingbridge footpath 84 through the town's northern suburbs, here passing houses on Penny's Close.

Waverley Road, Fordingbridge

A side turning seen from the Avon Valley Path as it follows Penny's Lane.

Road junction, Fordingbridge

The Avon Valley Path forks right here off Whitsbury Road and along Penny's Lane.

WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (15)

- Marl Lane pillbox type FW3/22: DoB ID: S0012673 A pillbox in very good condition that once overlooked open ground to the west, and the track of the now disused railway. It's a concrete faced type 22 constructed using horizontal wooden planking, and having an embrasure in each wall including a slanted rifle port by the entrance doorway. SU1414 : WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (16)

WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (16)

- Marl Lane pillbox type FW3/22: DoB ID: S0012673 Buried almost to embrasure level in some places. SU1414 : WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (17)

WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (17)

- Marl Lane pillbox type FW3/22: DoB ID: S0012673 Interior view showing the Y-plan ricochet/blast wall and the deep-set embrasures. SU1414 : WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (18)

WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (18)

- Marl Lane pillbox type FW3/22: DoB ID: S0012673 A distant view of the pillbox from the old railway bridge, showing its location 100 yds S of the former Salisbury & Dorset Junction Railway. SU1414 : WWII Hampshire - Ringwood Stop Line, Avon Valley - Fordingbridge anti-tank island (19)