HAVING left The Chequers Inn behind you on your right, within yards fork right from Lower Woodside, a southerly extension of Rideway Lane, with Chequers Green on your left, to follow a private road which is also the beginning of a public footpath.

A few yards along this, at the approach to the private entrance to Pennington House, turn right towards a field entry-point, then almost immediately cross a stile on your left. Follow a fenced path to a stile beyond which you follow the right-hand edge of a meadow for a few yards before crossing another stile in the hedgerow on your right, to follow the left-hand edge of the arable field you now enter. This brings you to yet another stile, after crossing which you continue along the left-hand edge of the next field to a sixth stile preceding Lower Pennington Lane.

Follow this left-handed, past farm buildings, as far as right-hand metal gate adjoined by a footpath sign. You now follow a path around the gate and along the metalled lane you now enter a further gate.

Walk round the gate to follow the grass-and-gravel track that leads ahead here skirting left of a fairly substantial lake on a former gravel extraction site. Just beyond this man-made nature sanctuary is a metalled lane which you cross. Go over a stile adjoining a gate directly opposite and fork left at a junction of tracks here to follow the one signposted as a footpath. Extensive gravel workings flank the grass-and-gravel track you now follow ahead, in a fairly straight line, across flat ground for some distance.

Disregard a diverted footpath which branches left and carry on to where a metal gate with a stile precedes your emergence onto another unmetalled track. As you follow the latter right-handed you soon reach another metal gate, which you walk round to continue along what is now a public road open to ordinary traffic.

Only a little way ahead now is a bridge across the Avon Water outflow. Directly beyond this is Keyhaven, where you can see the Gun Inn. Return over the bridge directly beyond which the sea wall path to Lymington turns right. The wall steers its way around Keyhaven Marshes on the landward side.

Within two miles the sea wall path bends left alongside an inlet. Across the upper reaches of this a path branches right over a sluice-gate but you keep straight on, descending some steps and soon turning right over a stile. Your path continues past the head of the creek to emerge on to an oak-bordered lane. Follow this right-handed to arrive back at The Chequers Inn, about 200 yards along it.