Shave Hat

Date: 28 February 2009

Distance: Approx. 2 - 3 miles
Parking: New Forest Car Park Shave Hat
Map: Explorer OL22
Map ref for car park: SU293122

Go straight out of the back of the car park and follow indistinct path leading up through trees northward. Keep ahead ignoring any paths to right or left until the stream is reached. This area can be boggy and other rivulets run across the path. Find the way across then keep heading north along a more clearly defined way. Shave Hat opens ahead, a lawn area ringed with trees.

Cross to the line of trees at the north end of Shave Hat and turn left with the trees on your right until a fenced area is reached. Turn right with the fence on your left and continue ahead on a wide grass path to a cross-paths on a slight rise. Turn left here through the gate.

Follow the well-laid out path ahead and round to the left. Continue straight ahead until the main path bends sharp right. There is a grass path leading away to the left at this corner up to a gate. Go through the gate and find the indistinct path around Clay Hill which comes down to the road opposite Hazel Hill car park.

Turn left along the road, which comes all the way back to Shave Wood car park. Along the road, there is a lawned area if you prefer to walk off the road for a little way; and just before the car park is reached a path leads off the road left across a glade.


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