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9 miles
Start from Devizes Road at Charlton St Peter: Ordnance Survey reference SU 113 558 [OS Map 130]
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Car Parking is opposite the start for this leg in the car park belonging to the Charlton Cat but do not block any customers' cars.
Run up a track between the trees along which a 4 wheel drive vehicle has obviously been driven. As you come out of the trees you will see a track which joins you and then divides again into two separate tracks. Take the one to the right and continue until a road joins from the left. This is Charlton Drove which is a concrete/tarmac road (which is covered in mud). Continue slowly climbing. There is a wood on your left. As the road levels out you will pass a building on the right. At the end of Charlton Drove the road turns left to a farm. You must keep straight on, along the track which soon bends slightly to the left. You come to a sign saying
Warning to public
Danger from unexploded
shell and mortar bombs
On no account should any object be moved or it may explode.
Continue to the (unmade) road and turn sharp right. Follow this road (which has many potholes), the White Horse Trail, in a straight line for six kilometres. On your left is the Salisbury Plain military ground which is forbidden territory. You will pass Redhorn Hill, a well known picnic area. Continue along this track for a further six kilometres before reaching the end of this leg which is just before the A360 at Gore Cross Farm.
There will be a water point at Redhorn Hill.
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