Avon Valley Runners

Stage 7 - Hackpen White Horse to near the A4 at Manton (near Marlborough)

5.4 miles

The route is along the White Horse Trail which includes part of the Ridgeway

Route - (Select Satellite view)

Hackpen Hill White Horse: SU 028 749

The Car Park is at the top of the hill actually on the track.

Start on the Ridgeway on the opposite side of the Hackpen Hill road from the car park.

Here the track is good and predominantly downhill. However running down the Ridgeway is so enjoyable that the marker for the White Horse Trail is easily missed. The White Horse Trail bears left and the Ridgeway bears right. Follow the White Horse Trail which is poorly marked and the waymark's fairly small and few.

After a couple of fields you cross another track. Keep straight on and you will pass a wood on your right. At the end of this wood you will bear right. Study the (Google) map very carefully beforehand. The route crosses a field - aim towards the left hand corner of another wood. Here you meet another track. Bear right and follow it to a junction. Turn right here and almost immediately left down another track. Follow this until you come to a riding circuit. Keep to the right and continue to follow the track. Soon you will reach a Parking lot. Cross this on to a road on the left and keep left. You are now on a well made track. At the next junction BEAR RIGHT. Do not continue straight ahead.

At the following junction turn left again and at the end of the field turn right. Follow the field now on your right and keep right at the next turning.

Follow this track to the finish of this stage which is at the corner of Manton village.

If you now continue down this path you will reach the Bath Road (A4).

Parking at the end of the leg is in the Church car park at the end of Preshute Lane (about 1 km). Cross the A4 (there are pedestrian lights), go down Bridge Street and turn left into Preshute Lane. The Church is at the end of this lane. Alternatively it is a 2 km walk to Figgins Lane.

The Marlborough White Horse (SU 14 749) is situated behind Marlborough College.

List of all the stages of this Relay Race