Bow Hill and the Devil's Humps from Stoughton Down

From the Forestry England car park on Stoughton Down the walk goes right along the lane for 300 m and takes the bridleway on the left past Wildham Barn, which crosses the fields and drops to the road into Stoughton. Beyond the village a bridleway climbs steeply through the woods to the open top of Bow Hill and the Devil's Humps, a row of Bronze Age barrows with a wide view to the south. The path goes on north-east along the edge of Kingley Vale's yew forest, past the Tansley Stone and the trig point on Bow Hill at 206 m, and comes down through the woods of Stoughton Down to the car park.

It is 8.3 km with 208 m of ascent; allow about 2½ hours. The grade is Easy: one steep climb out of Stoughton, then a long gentle descent.

Kingley Vale is a National Nature Reserve. Dogs must be on leads at all times there, cattle and sheep may be grazing, and Natural England warns that unexploded shells from wartime training are still found: do not touch metal objects. The last stretch through the woods is often very muddy after rain.

The car park is marked free on the map, but Forestry England publishes no page for it. There is no station near; the nearest is Bosham, about 7 km away.

Route drawn by Global Adventurer along OpenStreetMap paths (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), with figures worked out from it. Check the forecast and the ground on the day: paths change.