Gough Walk 3 – A Yard of Duffers

Walk directions

1. Start

   From the station at Yorton turn left go under the railway bridge and turn left at the Jubilee Tree. Pass Broughton Church and take the first turn left down to Yorton Heath. Next turn right up a green lane passing the old chapel and at the top of the track turn left up Godings Lane to Harmer Hill. Cross the main road and turn right.

2. Step 2

   At the Post Office cross the road and go 200 metres to a pair of cottages though to be an old house moved from Newton. Just before the cottages cross back over the road and the field to Harmer Hill Village Hall and Chapel.

3. Step 3

   Turn right. Follow the narrow pavement and then turn right up Newton Lane. Opposite the first house there is a green lane to your right. Before taking this turn carry on for some 300 metres down into the hamlet and see Gough's house. This is on the left and is now called Newton House.

4. Step 4

   Return to the green lane, turn down it into a field. Go round the pond and follow the hedge. Cross the bridge over the ditch and continue to the main road.

5. Step 5

   Turn left and proceed some 20 metres up the main road. Take the stile on the right and follow a path down through the fields to Yorton. You come between houses and the Jubilee Tree is 30 metres to your right.

6. Step 6

   300 metres to your left you will a clump of trees which surround the remains of an old Saxon church. The Church was pulled down in 1858 and the new one built on higher, drier ground half a mile to the east. Proceed back under the railway bridge to either the station car park on your right or to the Railway Inn on your left.