A walking tour of Butser Hill - one of the highest points in Hampshire - video Dailymotion

Join Editor Kelly Brown for this beautiful walk

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00:00Today we're going for a walk up Butser Hill. So Butser Hill is one of the highest points in

00:06Hampshire and can be found just off the A3. If you park at the top of the hill like I did rather

00:11than walk up from the bottom then you walk along this little path and you pass a cafe on your way

00:16which is a great place to grab coffee ready for your walk. The area is very popular with dog walkers

00:23but be aware there are some paths where you need to keep them on the lead because there are cattle

00:26and horses which are grazing but there are plenty of open spaces where your dogs can be off the lead

00:31as well. And right on cue here they are I love seeing these they really do make me smile.

00:39There is an official path that you can follow which are marked by these red signs but be aware

00:44that these take you into an area where dogs need to be kept on a lead and the terrain is just a little

00:49less flat but if you don't want to follow that then you can stay across the top where the walk

00:53rejoins that path anyway.

01:08So on the northern side of Butser Hill there's a lovely little viewpoint which overlooks the South Downs

01:13and things that you can see include to Petersfield, Ashford hangars as well as Harting Down.

01:29To the east of Butser Hill is Queen Elizabeth Country Park which you can get to on foot thanks to a pathway

01:43which goes underneath the A3 which connects the two things. Then on the southern side of Butser Hill

01:49is another viewpoint and from here you can see across to Goodwood, Portsmouth and of course the Eyed of White.

01:53As I've mentioned before there are lots of paths around Butser including this one which takes you

02:00down the hill towards Queen Elizabeth Country Park though it is steep and it's not for the faint-hearted.

02:06So we're just finishing our loop here and it takes you back to where we started. I hope you've enjoyed the walk.